Joseph Miller Fulton

Joseph Miller Fulton was born January 11, 1840, in West Nottingham Township, Chester County.

He early took to the business of merchandising, clerked in the store of Haines & Ireland at Brick Meeting House, Maryland.

In 1863, he took charge of the store formerly kept by his grandfather Hugh Ramsay at Hilamans, now Chrome, East Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. From that place he went to Brick Meeting House, Md., and entered into partnership with John M. Ireland in the general merchandise business. In 1867, he established a drug store at New London, Chester County, which he conducted for a period of over twenty years to the time of his decease.

Joseph entered the Union Army in 1863 upon the invasion of Pennsylvania by the Army of the Northern Virginia under General Robert E. Lee. He served as a private and corporal in Company A, 29th Regiment of Pennsylvania Militia Infantry, 2nd Brigade, Second Division, XII Corps during the Gettysburg Campaign.

He studied pharmacy, and was graduated from Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. He was a Past Master of New London Lodge of F. and A.M. He had been Treasurer of the Board of Trustees, and an elder of the New London Presbyterian Church, and for a time was superintendent of the Sabbath School.

Joseph was a man of great liberality, kind to the poor, and generous to a fault.

He died February 21, 1892, in the 53rd year of his age.

The widow, Mrs. Sarah Anna Fulton, with the two sons, Frederick J. and Alfred Miller, reside at 1312 W. 4th Street, Wilmington, Delaware.

He was treasurer of the Board of Trustees and an elder of the New London Presbyterian Church.

Certain passages above are from Joseph Fulton's obituary published at the time of his death along with further research done by his 2nd great-grandson Mark Fulton Murphy.