Title: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1905, Christchurch

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Mr. James Fullarton , B.A., Clerk and Treasurer of the Wallace County Council, was born in the Island of Arran. Buteshire, Scotland, and is the youngest son of Mr. Alexander Fullarton, farmer. He was educated at the local school and at Edinburgh University, where he took the degree of B.A. Mr. Fullarton studied Theology at the Edinburgh Free College, and was licensed to the ministry. Owing, however, to ill-health, he abandoned his sacred calling and left his native land for the Bluff by the ship “Sir William Eyre,” which arrived in 1863. He engaged in teaching for some time, but afterwards acted as clerk and engineer to the late Aparima Road Board, and received his present appointment in 1881. In 1864, he married Miss Jessie Cumming, of Banffshire, Scotland, and has three daughters and three sons. One of his sons is Dr. Fullarton, of Invercargill, another is on the staff of the Boys' High School, Dunedin, and the other is farming at Jacob's River, in the Southland district.