Biography of Lucinda Fulton Isaacs

Biography of Lucinda Fulton Isaacs


Isaacs, Lucinda Fulton (Mrs. Henry Perry Isaacs), writer, philanthropist, pioneer suffragist, was born near St. Joseph, Missouri, January 18, 1841, a daughter of James Fulton and Priscilla Wells Fulton. Of an interesting and varied American ancestry she traces back to one of the three brothers Fulton, Scotch-Irish Protestants, who came to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1755. Through the maternal line she is descended from the Wellses of Virginia, who came from Wales about 1760, from the Kuykendalls of Pennsylvania, originally from Holland, and from the Deans, who were natives of Denmark.

Source: American Biographical Library
The Biographical Cyclop�dia of American Women - Volume II
Daughters of America; or Women of the Century
Isaacs, Lucinda Fulton, Educational Work, page 41


James Fulton married Priscilla Wells (1816-1902). The Wellses came from Wales to Pennsylvania, thence to Virginia. Charles Franklin Wells was born in Virginia, 1783. He married Elizabeth Kuykendall, who was of Holland descent on her father's side. Her mother was a Dean, a native of Denmark. This Charles Wells, the maternal grandfather of Lucie Fulton Isaacs, was an outstanding figure�a land-surveyor, a member of the Kentucky militia in the battle of Tippecanoe, and a man of fearless courage. He was outspoken in his objection to slavery and after freeing his own slaves moved to Indiana to avoid it. He also dared believe in the education of his daughters as well as of his sons, although the elders of the church remonstrated with him, declaring that "educated girls did not make good wives." With such an ancestry Mrs. Isaacs could not well keep from being progressive in mind, in methods, and in measures of advancement.

Source: American Biographical Library
The Biographical Cyclop�dia of American Women, Volume II
Daughters of America; or Women of the Century Boynton, Catharine >br>Educational Work - page 44


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