When Florence Gertrude Fulton was born on 26 March 1904, in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, her father, Luther Fulton, was 34 and her mother, Annette Lümkea "Kea" Brandt, was 31. She married Daniel Gordon Hamilton on 7 November 1928, in Springside, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada. She died in 1929, at the age of 25.
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The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
On February 11, 1907, a passenger ship gets rammed by a coal carrier just southwest of Watch Hill, Rhode Island. It takes only 10 minutes for the Larchmont to sink. Only 19 of those on board survive. The next day bodies of those that had been on the ship continue to wash up onto the shore.
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
Scottish: habitational name from Fulton in Bedrule, Roxburghshire, Scotland, so named from Old English fugol ‘bird’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. Compare Folden 2.
English: variant of Folden 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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