The Robert Fulton, SJ Papers include correspondence sent/received as well as letters regarding his death in 1895. They also contain a journal maintained between 1876 and 1888, with reminiscences back to 1845, and notes on his ancestry.
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James Robert Fulton III (1826-1895), known throughout a majority of his life as simply Robert Fulton, was born in Alexandria, Virginia, to James Robert Fulton II (d. 1836) and Mary O’Brien (1797-1887). He worked as a page for the US Senate in the late 1830s and began attending Georgetown College in 1842, after which he entered the Society of Jesus at Frederick (1843-1847) and his mother joined the community at Georgetown Visitation Convent as Sr. Mary Olympia. Next Fr. Fulton taught a variety of subjects at Georgetown College (1848, 1850, 1852), Washington Seminary (1849), College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, 1851), and Loyola College (Baltimore, 1853) while a seminarian. He then completed his philosophy (1854) and theology studies (1855-1858) at Georgetown where he was also ordained.
Fr. Fulton was prefect of studies and a professor of rhetoric at Georgetown (1859-1860) before his tertianship at Frederick (1861) and further studies at Boston College (1862), where he also took his final vows. After another year at Frederick (1863), he went back to Boston College where he was prefect of studies (1864-1870) and rector (1871-1880). In 1881 he was at the Church of the Gesù (Philadelphia) before becoming rector of Gonzaga College (Washington, DC, 1882) and Superior of the Maryland-New York Province (1882-1888). During this time he was also made canonical visitor to the Irish Province at St. Francis Xavier, Dublin (1886 and 1888). From there he was rector of Boston College (1889-1891) and stationed at Gonzaga College (1892-1893) and St. Lawrence O’Toole’s Catholic Church (Manhattan, 1894-1895). In order to recover from ongoing health issues, he traveled to California in 1895 but died there at Santa Clara College that same year.
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