From another list, this Bio has Morgan Co. IL connections....FULTON/HOBSON Mary Ann >Found this bio on WA Bios Project page. Hope it helps someone. > >http://www.halcyon.com/jennyrt/bios/fulton.txt > >Hunt, Herbert and Floyd C. Kaylor. Washington: West of the >Cascades. Vol. II. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1917. p. >379-380. > > CHARLES PARKER FULTON: For over thirty years >Charles Parker Fulton, of Chehalis, has been identified with railroad >interests and he is now serving as agent for the Northern Pacific, the >Great Northern and the Oregon-Washington Railway and >Navigation Company. He was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, >December 14, 1864, and is the oldest in a family of three children >whose parents were William and Fannie (Williams) Fulton, natives >of Ohio and Maryland respectively. the father was also in the >railroad service, being at different times an engineer on the Keokuk >and Des Moines, the Illinois Central and the Chicago, Burlington >and Quincy Railroads, but he is now living retired in Chehalis, >Washington, having become a resident of this place in 1911. The >mother died in 1900. > Charles Parker Fulton received his education in the public >schools of St. Louis, Missouri, and after laying aside his textbooks >spent three years on a farm near Chapin, Illinois. He then accepted >a position as baggage-master with the Wabash Railroad and since >June, 1886, has been connected with railroading in some capacity. >For several years he was in the service of the Missouri, Kansas and >Texas Railroad, with headquarters at Greenville, Texas. > In 1904 Mr. Fulton came to Washington and was first >employed as clerk in the Northern Pacific Railroad office at >Aberdeen; was later cashier for the same company at Olympia; and >then returned to Aberdeen as chief clerk. He was next cashier for >the company in Portland, Oregon, and subsequently was agent at >Vancouver, Washington, after which he returned to Aberdeen, this >time acting as agent. In 1911 he was transferred to Chehalis, where >he has since remained and at present time is not only agent for the >Northern Pacific Railroad, but also for the Great Northern Railroad >and the Oregon-Washington Railway and Navigation Company. > Mr. Fulton was married in Chapin, Illinois, in 1888, to Miss >Clara Hobson, whose father was a farmer of that locality, and they >have become the parents of four children, namely: Robert L., >assistant traveling auditor for the Northern Pacific Railroad >Company; Charles E., who is bill clerk for the same company; >Frank M., who is a graduate of the high school of Chehalis and is >now a mechanic in the automobile business; and Charlton, still >attending high school. > By his ballot Mr. Fulton has always supported the men and >measures of the republican party since age conferred upon him the >right of franchise. He is an earnest and consistent member of the >Christian church and also belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the >Ancient Order of United Workmen. He comes of a family noted for >longevity, one of his relatives living to the extreme old age of one >hundred and five years. He is one of the most accommodating >railroad officials of western Washington and is popular with the >traveling public, his genial, pleasant manner winning for him many >warm friends among those with whom he comes in contact either in >business or social life. > > >Fulton Williams Hobson >= >IN>MO>IL>Lewis-WA CONVERSE CONNECTIONS http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~converse/index.html CONVERSE MAIL LIST Administrator MY FAMILY GENEALOGY http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~makaylor/index.html KAYLOR MAIL LIST Administrator TEDROW MAIL LIST Administrator