Capt. Bennett Fulmer

RR conductor who lived in Ward 16 of Philadelphia in 1860
~• last residence: 808 North Sixteenth street, Philadlphia

rode with Jesse Weber Bean to the July 1844 Southwark riots in Philadelphia as part of the 1st Montgomery Troop (source = a J.W. Bean letter) Both were in the 1st Montgomery Troop of Mounted Dragoons.
By the middle of the Civil War Bennett had been a US Cav officer who had quickly resigned his commission while his friend Jesse was fighting for the Confederacy. Bennett's older brother's sympathies were with the CSA as well: John Adam wended his way southward and ended up in Water Valley, Mississippi.

seems to have risen from poverty as a child...

lived in Easttown Twp, Chester Co when he was 6 where he was listed among poor children at school
Name: Bennett Fulmer
Gender: Male
Age: 6
Birth Year: abt 1818
Residence Year: 1824
Residence Place: Easttown, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Book: 1816 ‐ 1825
Page: 296
Record Type: Children's Records
Father:
Jacob Fulmer
URL: http://www.chesco.org/index.aspx?NID=1710
this is : Bennett Fulmer
in the Web: Chester County, Pennsylvania, U.S., Poor School Children, 1810-1841

Civil War duty (resigned commission in the PA 8th Cavalry

Name: Bennett Fulmer
Enlistment Date: 1 Oct 1861
Enlistment Rank: Captain
Muster Date: 1 Oct 1861
Muster Place: Pennsylvania
Muster Company: K
Muster Regiment: 8th Cavalry
Muster Regiment Type: Cavalry
Muster Information: Commission
Muster Out Date: 11 Feb 1862
Muster Out Information: Resigned
Side of War: Union
Survived War?: Yes
Was Officer?: Yes
Residence Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Title: History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865

last residence per death notice

late residence, 808 North Sixteenth street, Philadelphia PA