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Rockport-Fulton, Texas George’s Accomplished Little Brother:
Charles Carroll Fulton
One of the four brothers of George Fulton, Charles Carroll Fulton dedicated much of his life to journalism. Previously the managing editor of the Baltimore Sun, in 1853 he purchased a large share of interest in the Baltimore American and Daily Advertiser and a short decade later would
become the senior proprietor with his son Albert as partner. Under Fulton supervision, the Baltimore American grew in circulation, and by the late 1870s, it was considered a first-class newspaper.
Throughout the 1870s, Charles Fulton
traveled throughout the greater United
States and abroad to Europe and the West
Indies—all the while writing letters to the
American of his experiences. In the 1870s and
1880s, the Charles Fulton family made multiple
trips to visit the Fultons in Texas. Charles wrote
and published travel articles in the American detailing
the cattle enterprise, the social life, and the healthy habitat
of the Live Oak Peninsula. As he reported in the early 1880s,
“We spent over a month in Texas, and it was one of the
pleasantest in all our journeyings at home or abroad. Among the cattle ranges—a location which is generally supposed to be the roughest and most uncivilized portion of Texas—we found not only the highest stage of civilization, but cultivation, and the strictest regard paid to all the amenities and even the technical rules of social life."
Charles C. Fulton
growth and development on the Live Oak Peninsula, George may have felt that his talents would be best utilized in the East.
The Fultons resided first in Baltimore. There, George’s brother, Charles C. Fulton, the editor of the Baltimore American, briefly employed George as a reporter. In 1851, the family moved to York, Pennsylvania, where George became General Superintendent of the York and Cumberland Railroad.
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