Robert Burwell Fulton
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.
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 |
| Spouses | 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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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 Oxford Memorial Cemetery in Oxford, Mississippi.[1]
References
- FindAGrave: Robert Burwell Fulton
- Ole Miss biography
- James B. Lloyd, Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967, Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2009, p. 184
- 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.
