Robert Burwell Fulton
Robert Burwell Fulton | |
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| 7th Chancellor of the University of Mississippi | |
| In office 1892–1906 | |
| Preceded by | Edward Mayes |
| Succeeded by | Andrew Armstrong Kincannon |
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| Born | April 8, 1849 Sumter County, Alabama |
| Died | May 29, 1919 (aged 70) Oxford, Mississippi |
| Spouse(s) | Annie Rose Garland Fulton
(m. 1871; died 1893)Florence Thompson (m. 1903) |
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| Alma mater | University of Mississippi |
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Robert Burwell Fulton (April 8, 1849 – May 29, 1919) was an American university administrator. He served as the seventh Chancellor of the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi from 1892 to 1906.
Biography[]
Early life[]
He was born in Sumter County, Alabama on April 8, 1849.[1][2] He graduated from the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi in 1869.[2]
Career[]
He taught in Alabama and in New Orleans, Louisiana.[2] In 1871, he became Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi.[2] By 1875, he was a full Professor.[2] He went on to serve as its seventh Chancellor from 1892 to 1906.[2][3]
Additionally, he served as President of the National Association of State Universities for five years.[2][4]
Personal life[]
He married Annie Rose Garland Fulton (1843-1893), the daughter of Landon Garland (1810-1895), who served as the second President of Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia from 1836 to 1846, third President of the University of Alabama from 1855 to 1865, and first Chancellor of Vanderbilt University from 1875 to 1893.[1] They had two sons and one daughter who died in infancy, and one son who survived:
- Landon Garland Fulton (1872-1874).[1]
- Louise Garland Fulton (1873-1874).[1]
- Robert Garland Fulton (1875-1877).[1]
- Maurice Garland Fulton (1877–1955; Professor of English at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, New Mexico).[3]
Annie died in 1893, and he remarried to Florence Thompson in 1903.[5]
He died on May 29, 1919.[1][4] He was buried in the in Oxford, Mississippi.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f g FindAGrave: Robert Burwell Fulton
- ^ a b c d e f g Ole Miss biography
- ^ a b James B. Lloyd, Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967, Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2009, p. 184 [1]
- ^ a b The New York Times
- ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. XIII. James T. White & Company. 1906. p. 547. Retrieved August 24, 2020 – via Google Books.
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