Robert Burwell Fulton

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]

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]

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]