HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III,
pp. 1182-83.   [Jefferson County]

GAVIN FULTON, M. D., a prominent member of the medical profession of
Louisville, whose marked ability and careful preparation have gained him
distinction in the line of his chosen life work, has spent the most of
his life here, and he is a native son, born in Louisville on April 8, 1873,
the son of Edward and Caroline (Wilson) Fulton.  The father was born in
Zanesville, Ohio, the son of Robert Fulton, who was born in Pennsylvania
and was one of the first men to cross the mountains into Ohio in his own
conveyance, bringing with him his family.  He was a pioneer of Zanesville,
the old Fulton homestead there still standing and being occupied.  The
great grandfather was John Fulton, who came from Scotland with his widowed
mother when a child and settled in what was then Robbstown, Pennsylvania.
Edward Fulton, the father of our subject, came to Louisville as a youth of
eighteen or nineteen years of age, and became one of the Spring Hill
distillers of Louisville.  He died on January 7, 1893, at the age of
fifty-two years, and during his life was a quiet, home-loving man, and very
fond of his large, well-selected library.  The mother of our subject was
born in Louisville, the daughter of Dr. Thomas Wilson and grand-daughter
of Dr. Daniel Wilson, who founded what is now the Peter-Neat wholesale
drug concern.  Dr. Thomas Wilson was born in Louisville and graduated from
the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, but never practiced, as he
took up the drug business upon the death of his father.  Daniel Wilson,
the pioneer, was a native of Georgia, of Virginia parentage.  The mother
died in 1882, at the age of forty-two years.
     Dr. Fulton was reared in Louisville and received his education in that
city, first attending the public and high schools.  After grounding himself
thoroughly in these preparatory courses he entered the University of
Louisville in 1890, and was one of the two first four-year students to
enter that institution.  He was graduated there in 1894, with the degree of
M. D., and was assistant to the professor of chemistry for one year in the
Louisville University, then adjunct professor of diseases of children in
the Kentucky Medical College for two years.  At the end of that time he
engaged in country practice in Oldham county, Kentucky, where he went on
account of his health, but in 1903 he returned to Louisville and for the
next three years was adjunct professor of physiology in the old Hospital
College of Medicine.  He is now (1910) adjunct professor in the diseases
of children.  Dr. Fulton is engaged in the general practice of medicine,
at the same time making a specialty of children's diseases and obstetrics.
He is a member of the staff of the Deaconess Hospital and chairman of the
medical committee of the Baby's Free Milk Fund.  He is a member of the
Jefferson County Medical Society, the Kentucky State Medical Society and
the American Medical Association.
     The Doctor married Mary Henry Peter, who was born in Louisville,
daughter of M. C. Peter, the well-known citizen and wholesale druggist
of Louisville, of whom a sketch is published elsewhere in this work. From
this union there are two children: Nellie Crutcher and Rhoda Peter.  As
a physician and surgeon Dr. Fulton is constantly broadening his knowledge
and promoting his efficiency as a practitioner by reading and study.

Fulton Wilson Peter
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Zanesville-Muskingem-OH PA GA VA

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