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HISTORY OF NOVA SCOTIA
Vol III, 1916
A.W. Bowen & Co. Halifax
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Biographical Sketches
of Representative Citizens
and Genealogical Records of the Old Families |
Varley Bent Fullerton
Belonging to Nova Scotia's enterprising class of professional men, Varley Bent FULLERTON, a barrister of Parrsboro, Cumberland County, is deserving of specific mention in these pages. To the active practice of law he has given, not only the gravity of his thought and the truest exercise of his abilities, but the strength of his personality and the momentum of his character.
Mr. FULLERTON was born in the town where he still resides, May 30, 1875. He is a son of Vose Bent FULLERTON and Ella FULLERTON, both natives of Halfway River, Cumberland County, where they grew up, attended school and were married.
Varley Bent FULLERTON grew to manhood in his native town and there attended the public schools and the high school, later studying at Mount Allison College, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1906, then entered Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1909. He then spent a year in Dalhousie University, Halifax, receiving the same degree from the law department in 1910. He was admitted to the bar March 10, 1910.
When fourteen years of age Mr. FULLERTON began clerking in a general store at Port Greville, for Clarence FULLERTON, with whom he formed a partnership in 1896, engaging in business in Parrsboro under the firm name of C. & V.B. Fullerton. He sold out his interest in the firm in 1903, after a very successful career as merchant for six years, and went away to college, believing that the legal profession held greater inducements for him. He has been very successful in his profession, building up a very satisfactory general law practice at Parrsboro.
Politically, Mr. FULLERTON is a Liberal. Fraternally, he belongs to the Masonic Order and the Knights of Pythias. He is a member of the Methodist church.
Mr. FULLERTON was married July 9, 1913, to Nita M. TRAHEY, a daughter of John and Rita (BLENKHORN) TRAHEY of Brooklyn, N.Y. To this union a daughter and son have been born--Aleene Jessie FULLERTON, whose birth occurred July 31, 1914, and William Bruce FULLERTON, whose birth occurred November 13, 1915.