GEORGE S. FULTON is a native of Nelson County, Ky., and the third of a family of six children born to Samuel S. and Margaret (Anderson) Fulton, the father of Pennsylvania, and the mother of Jessamine County, Ky. Samuel S. Fulton was born in Washington County, Penn., March 8, 1814, and grew to manhood in his native State. He was educated in Washington College, and early in life engaged in teaching, a profession in which he acquired considerable distinction, and which he followed many years. He came to Kentucky in 1838, and settled in Jefferson, where he followed his profession until 1840, when he moved to Spencer County, and there resided until 1848. He then returned to Jefferson County; two years later moved to Nelson County, and located on a farm near the town of Bloomfield, where he resided until his death, which occurred February 12, 1880. Mrs. Margaret Fulton was the daughter of John Anderson, an early resident of Nelson County. He was a captain in the war of 1812, and for a number of years sold goods at Bloomfield, dying in that town some time prior to the year 1833. Mrs. Fulton was born October 29, 1815, and died June 19, 1819. Mr. and Mrs. Fulton are the parents of six children, whose names are as follows: Mrs. Mary McClaskey, George S., Eugene (deceased), J. A. (present judge of the Nelson County Court), Samuel and W. A. Fulton. George S. Fulton was born in Taylorsville, Spencer County, April 27, 1847. He grew to manhood near Bloomfield, Nelson County, and was reared on a farm, receiving his early education in the schools of the town, which he attended until his seventeenth year. In 1866 he entered the Forest Home Academy, Jefferson County, which institution he attended one year, completing the prescribed course in that time. He received material assistance in his school work from his father, who instructed him in the classics and higher mathematics, so that the year spent in the academy was comparatively an easy one. After quitting school he engaged in teaching in Nelson County, and later in the county of Washington, where he had charge of the Covington Institute, at Springfield, for one year. He began reading law in 1868, and in 1869 entered the law department of the Louisville University, from which he graduated in 1872; began the practice of his profession at Bardstown in 1873, and since that time has been actively engaged in the courts of Nelson and adjoining counties, having a large and lucrative business at the present time. Mr. Fulton has been a very active and painstaking lawyer, and occupies a prominent place in the legal fraternity of central Kentucky. He married, October 8, 1874, near Bardstown, Miss Kate R. Adams, daughter of Stephen G. and Elizabeth (Ray) Adams, of Daviess County. Two children have been born to this marriage: Eugene A. and Stephen G. Fulton, aged, respectively, ten and seven years. Mr. Fulton has never been an aspirant for official positions, but takes an active interest in politics, voting with the Democratic party. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, with which he has been identified since 1867, and with is wife and family belongs to the Bardstown congregation.