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FULTON, ROBERT GILPIN (1874-1945)

FULTON, ROBERT GILPIN, Methodist minister, Chatham circuit, 1911-15; b. Saint John, 17 Jul 1874, s/o Robert Fulton and Mary Wade; m. 1901, Josephine Marie Fraser, of Woodward's Cove, Grand Manan Island, N.B.; d. Saint John, 23 Jun 1945.

Robert G. Fulton's father was the stroke oar with the famous 'Paris Crew' of Saint John oarsmen who won the world rowing championship at the Paris Exposition in 1867.

After finishing the theology program at Mount Allison University, Fulton served in several Methodist circuits in southern New Brunswick and as minister of the church at Woodstock. In this period he played a prominent part in the Orange order and was grand master for New Brunswick in 1907-08.

In 1909 Fulton accepted an assignment in British Columbia. Two years later he returned to take the pulpit of St Luke's Church in Chatham, which he filled for four years. During his pastorate it was not uncommon to find editorials on his sermons in the Chatham World, and while these were not all critical, they leave the impression that he was highly opinionated on social and political issues, made sarcastic remarks, and offered impractical solutions to problems, such as his proposal that the Chatham Town Council be abolished and two competent men be appointed to run the town. In contrast, the Saint John Daily Telegraph observed at the conclusion of his term in Chatham that, "he always had his subject well in hand," that "his discourses were thoroughly enjoyed," and that he was universally admired for his "broadmindedness and cheery disposition." The text of an address which he delivered in 1915 on "The Relationship of Christianity to Some of the Practices of the Present War" was published in The World.

Fulton became the Methodist minister in Charlottetown in the summer of 1915, and he later had churches in Halifax and Saint John. For some years he was a member of the board of regents of Mount Allison University. He invited controversy in 1927 when he resigned from the United Church ministry to accept the chairmanship of the New Brunswick Liquor Control Board. He remained chairman until his retirement in 1944. At his death in 1945 he left his wife, Josephine Marie Fraser, a daughter, and a son: Brig. Fraser Fulton, OBE.

Sources

[b/m] PPNB [d] Globe 25 Jun 1945 / Morgan (CM&W) 1912; Telegraph 19 Jun 1915; Courier 26 Oct 1871; Johnson; Walkington; World 20 May 1914 (for example), 19 May 1915


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