History of Earlville, (Madison County) New York United States of America

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Justin Dewey Fulton, clergyman, was born in Earlville, N.Y., March 1, 1826; son of John I. and Clarissa (Dewey) Fulton; and grandson of Samuel Fulton. He was graduated from the University of Rochester in 1852 and from the Rochester theological seminary in 1854. He was ordained pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist church, St. Louis, and was editor of the Gospel Banner in that city, 1854-55. He was pastor of a church in Sandusky. Ohio, 1855-59; pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist church, Albany, N.Y., 1859-63, and of the Tremont Temple. Boston, Mass., 1863-73. In 1873 he removed to Brooklyn, N.Y., where he was pastor of the Hanson Place church and editor of the Christian in the World until 1876, when he established the Centennial Baptist church, Brooklyn, and became editor of The Watch Tower. He resigned the latter pastorate in 1887 to engage in work for Romanists. As a lecturer he traversed Europe and Great Britain and America, and delivered in the Patriotic courses in Boston 190 lectures between the years 1887 and 1898. The degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by the University of Rochester in 1870. He is the author of the following books: The Roman Catholic Element in American History (1859); Life of Timothy Gilbert (1864); Woman as God Made Her (1867); The Way Out (1870); Sam Hobart, Railroad Engineer (1873); Show Your Colors (1881); Rome in America (1884); Why Priests Should Wed (1887); Spurgeon Our Ally (1892); How to Win Romanists (1893); The Fight With Rome; and Washington in the Lap of Rome (1894); besides many pamphlets. He died in Somerville, Mass., April 16, 1901.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Earlville, (Madison County) New York

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