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MAJ Albert Kimberly Fulton

Birth
Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Death
31 Jan 1900 (aged 62–63)
Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Burial
Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA Add to Map
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Civil War Veteran

Born ~ 1837, MD, Newspaper Editor
Wife - Laura Fulton, B ~ 1842, MD
Daughter - Laura Fulton, B ~ 1867, MD
Living next to J. M. Kimberly 1880 Census
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Major Albert Kimberly Fulton, aged 63 years, died yesterday at the Maryland University Hospital where he had been under treatment for several weeks. Major Fulton's illness dated about six weeks back. He was a sufferer from catarrh and had an operation performed on his nostrils. A few days later he went to Washington for the races. He caught cold and crysipelas set in. He recover from the first attack and for the past week had been improving. His death was a shock to all his acquaintances.

He was born in Baltimore in 1837. His father was Mr. Charles Carroll Fulton and his mother, before marriage, Miss Emily Jane Kimberly, of this city. For over 30 years, Mr. C. C. Fulton, his father, was senior editor and proprietor of the American. Major Fulton was reared in Baltimore. During his boyhood, his home for a number of years was on Exeter street, near Low, near the now famous cellar where John Wilkes Booth and John Sleeper Clarke, as boys, practiced theatricals. Young Fulton was a schoolmate of these two, and was often present at their performances. He did not take part in them himself, as all his tastes as a boy ran in the direction of amateur magic.

His education was obtained in the public schools and in a private boarding school, which he attended for a short while. He chose engineering as a profession. At the outbreak of the Civil War he entered the United States Navy, and was made an engineer on Commodore Farragut's flagship, the Hartford. He took part in all the Hartford's engagements in the first three years of the war.

He returned to Baltimore after his service in the navy, and soon afterward 1n 1864, was married to his first cousin, Miss Laura Kimberly, a daughter of Mr. Joseph Kimberly, who was a brother of Mr. Fulton's mother. ... He was devoted to music and the stage, and often wrote the librettos of several operas, of which one, "Jack Shepherd," the music for which was composed by Adam Itzel, was produced in this city and made a hit. ...

... lover of baseball ... Baltimore baseball Club.

He spent his summers traveling with the "Orioles," paying his own expenses all the time, ...

He is survived by his widow and one daughter, Miss Laura Fulton.


The Sun, Baltimore, MD, Thursday, February 1, 1900, P 10 (GenealogyBank.com)
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Maj. Albert Kimberly Fulton, who died Wednesday afternoon at the Maryland University Hospital, was buried yesterday afternoon from the home of his widow's mother, Mrs. J. M. Kinberly, 110 North Calhoun street. The burial service of the Protestant Episcopal Church was read by Rev. Arthur Chilton Powell, rector of Grace Protestant Episcopal Church.

Besides the immediate relatives of the deceased there was present a delegation from the Baltimore Lodge of Elks. Employes of Undertaker E. Madison Mitchell, who had charge of the funeral arrangements, served as pallbearers. The floral designs covered the solid quartered-oak casket in which the body rested. Interment was made in Greenmount Cemetery.


The Sun, Baltimore, MD, Saturday, February 3, 1900, P 7 (GenealogyBank.com)
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Civil War Veteran

Born ~ 1837, MD, Newspaper Editor
Wife - Laura Fulton, B ~ 1842, MD
Daughter - Laura Fulton, B ~ 1867, MD
Living next to J. M. Kimberly 1880 Census
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Major Albert Kimberly Fulton, aged 63 years, died yesterday at the Maryland University Hospital where he had been under treatment for several weeks. Major Fulton's illness dated about six weeks back. He was a sufferer from catarrh and had an operation performed on his nostrils. A few days later he went to Washington for the races. He caught cold and crysipelas set in. He recover from the first attack and for the past week had been improving. His death was a shock to all his acquaintances.

He was born in Baltimore in 1837. His father was Mr. Charles Carroll Fulton and his mother, before marriage, Miss Emily Jane Kimberly, of this city. For over 30 years, Mr. C. C. Fulton, his father, was senior editor and proprietor of the American. Major Fulton was reared in Baltimore. During his boyhood, his home for a number of years was on Exeter street, near Low, near the now famous cellar where John Wilkes Booth and John Sleeper Clarke, as boys, practiced theatricals. Young Fulton was a schoolmate of these two, and was often present at their performances. He did not take part in them himself, as all his tastes as a boy ran in the direction of amateur magic.

His education was obtained in the public schools and in a private boarding school, which he attended for a short while. He chose engineering as a profession. At the outbreak of the Civil War he entered the United States Navy, and was made an engineer on Commodore Farragut's flagship, the Hartford. He took part in all the Hartford's engagements in the first three years of the war.

He returned to Baltimore after his service in the navy, and soon afterward 1n 1864, was married to his first cousin, Miss Laura Kimberly, a daughter of Mr. Joseph Kimberly, who was a brother of Mr. Fulton's mother. ... He was devoted to music and the stage, and often wrote the librettos of several operas, of which one, "Jack Shepherd," the music for which was composed by Adam Itzel, was produced in this city and made a hit. ...

... lover of baseball ... Baltimore baseball Club.

He spent his summers traveling with the "Orioles," paying his own expenses all the time, ...

He is survived by his widow and one daughter, Miss Laura Fulton.


The Sun, Baltimore, MD, Thursday, February 1, 1900, P 10 (GenealogyBank.com)
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Maj. Albert Kimberly Fulton, who died Wednesday afternoon at the Maryland University Hospital, was buried yesterday afternoon from the home of his widow's mother, Mrs. J. M. Kinberly, 110 North Calhoun street. The burial service of the Protestant Episcopal Church was read by Rev. Arthur Chilton Powell, rector of Grace Protestant Episcopal Church.

Besides the immediate relatives of the deceased there was present a delegation from the Baltimore Lodge of Elks. Employes of Undertaker E. Madison Mitchell, who had charge of the funeral arrangements, served as pallbearers. The floral designs covered the solid quartered-oak casket in which the body rested. Interment was made in Greenmount Cemetery.


The Sun, Baltimore, MD, Saturday, February 3, 1900, P 7 (GenealogyBank.com)
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