[Genealib] Obit of a James M. Fulton??

[John Wiehn]

Hello,

 

This list and it's members have been so helpful to us in the past..

 

We've had a patron ask for information and hopefully a obituary of

a semi-famous March King named:

 

James Melville Fulton

 

Mr. Fulton died on May 6th 1940 in Belmont Massachusetts.

 

Prior to going to Massachucetts he resided in Waterbury,

Connecticut and became the conductor of the American Band

which he later renamed the Fulton's American Band.

 

Fulton wrote at least 233 known published works. 

142+ Marches, 8 Overtures, 5 Polkas, 5 Schottisches, 

4 Cakewalks, 4 Gallops, 22 Waltzes, and 43 other miscellaneous works.

 

To some in the know his work was better than John Phillip Sousa.

 

Fulton was very well known in the state of Connecticut in the 1890-1920

period.

 

The patron has asked our help in finding any published obituaries of

James Fulton // James M. Fulton // James Melville Fulton

 

His date of death May 6th 1940.

 

Can someone run a quick old newspaper search for us to see if obit exsists?

It may have been published in a Connecticut, Massachucetts or New York
paper.

 

If you come across any other articles written about him that would be like

finding the holy grail for our patron.

 

Key words may be -

 

Fulton's American Band

James Fulton

Fulton and Marches

James Fulton AND Waterbury

 

Our email if anything can be found is:

 

johnw at biblio.org

 

THANK YOU....

 

 

John Wiehn

Whittemore Library

Naugatuck, CT

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