Guide to the Fulton/Howe Family Papers , 1870-1970

(bulk 1900-1950)

Roger Williams University
Roger Williams University Library
One Old Ferry Road
Bristol, RI 02809
Tel: 401-254-3049
Fax: 401-254-0818
email: hbenedict@rwu.edu

Published in 2012

Collection Overview

Title:	Fulton/Howe Family Papers
Date range:	1870-1970, (bulk 1900-1950)
Creator:	Fulton, Marshall N.
Extent:	20 box(es)
Abstract:	Marshall Nairne Fulton collected family photographs and letters, journals, and other writings created by both his Fulton relatives and his wife Mary Howe's relatives. He also collected material related to Ferrycliff Farm and the early history Roger Williams University.
Language of materials:	English
Repository:	Roger Williams University
Collection number:	UA 2012.02

Scope & content

The collection documents the personal and professional lives of three generations of the Howe, DeWolf, and Fulton families, from the late 1800s to the 1970s. It includes correspondence, writings, genealogical notes, scrapbooks, diaries, commonplace books, artwork, photographs, and other memorabilia. Also included are materials related to Ferrycliffe Farm, first operated by Herbert Marshall Howe in the late nineteenth century.

Access Points

Subject Topics

• Rhode Island/Local Interest

Arrangement

The collection is divided in 5 series:

• 1. Correspondence
• 2. Photographs
• 3. Writings
• 4. Ferrycliffe Farm Records
• 5. Legal and Financial Papers

Historical note

In the early 1960s Mary Howe DeWolf Fulton and her husband Marshall N. Fulton, owners of Ferrycliffe Farm in Bristol, learned that Roger Williams College, then housed in the basement of the YMCA in Providence, was looking to build a new campus. The College acquired 63 acres of farmland from the Fultons, and in 1967 construction began. The remaining 50 acres of land were sold to the University in the early 1990s.

Ferrycliffe Farm dates back to 1875, when the 130 acre property was purchased by Dr. Herbert Marshall Howe for $20,000. The son of Mark Anthony DeWolf Howe, Herbert came from a prominent Philadelphia and Bristol family whose father was the Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania, and who fathered 18 children with 3 wives. The family lived at "Weetamoe," a farm to the north of where Bristol Landing condominiums stand today.

At the time, Ferrycliffe lands extended across Metacom Avenue to the west shore of Bristol Point. Herbert grew up knowing Bristol Point well, and when he purchased Ferrycliffe, he also bought the200-acre Hog Island from his friend Samuel Pomeroy Colt. Both Howe and Colt raised Jersey dairy cows, and must have spent many hours comparing notes about the herds at Ferrycliffe and Colt Farms, now Colt State Park. Dr. Howe took great pride in his Ferrycliffe Jerseys. The prize of the herd was a magnificent bull named Gilderoy.

After Herbert's death in 1916, the farm was taken over by his daughter Edith and her husband Dr. Halsey DeWolf. Ferrycliffe’s cows continued to win acclaim. Under the management of Dr. Howe's granddaughter Mary Howe and her husband Marshall Fulton, farming continued on a smaller scale into the 1950s.

Access & Use

Access to the collection:	There are no restrictions on access, except that the collection can only be seen by prior appointment.
Use of the materials:	Researchers are advised that express written permission to reproduce, quote, or otherwise publish any portion or extract from this collection must be obtained from the University Library. Although Roger Williams University has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. It is up to the researcher to determine the owners of the literary rights and to obtain any necessary permissions from them.
Preferred citation:	Fulton/Howe Family Papers, UA 2012.02, Roger Williams University.
Contact information:	Roger Williams University Roger Williams University Library One Old Ferry Road Bristol, RI 02809 Tel: 401-254-3049 Fax: 401-254-0818 email: hbenedict@rwu.edu

Administrative Information

ABOUT THE COLLECTION
Acquisition:	Harriet Fulton Dwyer and her brother DeWolf Fulton, on behalf of all their siblings, donated the collection to the University in June of 2011.
Processing information:	This collection has been minimally processed. The following preliminary inventory is available. Please contact the archivist for additional information.
ABOUT THE FINDING AID
Author:	Finding aid prepared by Heidi Benedict.
Encoding:	Finding aid encoded by Heidi Benedict in 2012
Descriptive rules:	Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Additional Information

Inventory

---

Boxes 1-2

Correspondence to Herbert M. Howe Contents Note: Box 2 contains letters primarily from Andrew Lynch about the running of Ferrycliffe Farm.

undated

Box 3

Correspondence to Johnn Howe

undated

Box 4

Correspondence to Mary Wilson Fell Howe

undated

Boxes 5-11

Correspondence to Edith Howe Contents Note: Includes 3 boxes of letters from Richard High Carlton.

undated

Box 12

Correspondence to Halsey DeWolf

undated

Box 13

Correspondence to Edith and Halsey DeWolf

undated

Boxes 14-23

Correspondence to Mary Howe DeWolf Fulton

1899-1946

Boxes 24-25

Correspondence to Mary Howe DeWolf and Marshall N. Fulton

1940-1974

Box 26

Correspondence to Marshall N. Fulton from Frank T. Fulton (uncle)

1899-1960

Box 27

Correspondence to Marshall N. Fulton from Jessie N. Fulton (mother)

1899-1940

Boxes 28-29

Correspondence to Marshall N. Fulton from Mary Howe DeWolf Fulton

1899-1940

Box 30

Correspondence to Marshall N. Fulton from W. J. Fulton, Sr. (father) and W. J. Fulton, Jr. (brother)

1899-1942

Boxes 31-32

Correspondence to Marshall N. Fulton

1899-1972

Box 33

Family Postcards

undated

Boxes 34-39

Correspondence to Frank T. Fulton

1889-1961

Box 40

Correspondence to William Jewett Fulton, Jr.

1944-1947

Box 41

Correspondence to Jessie Fisher Fulton

1920-1931

Box 42

Correspondence to Harriet J. T. Fulton

undated

Box 43

Correspondence to C. M. Fisher

undated

Box 44

Correspondence to/from various Fultons

undated

Box 45

Correspondence to Lewis Herreshoff from the Howe children

undated

Box 110

Miscellaneous Correspondence and Other Manuscripts, with transcriptions

1793-1870

Boxes 51-53

Herbert M. Howe: Photographs Contents Note: Three photo albums with pictures of Herbert's family and Ferrycliffe Farm

ca. 1885-1895

Box 54

Mary Wilson Fell Howe: Photographs Contents Note: Photo album with famliy portraits of Mary's parents and siblings and other relations.

undated

Box 55

Edith Howe: Photographs Contents Note: Photo album with pictures of Edith's trip to Europe (Sparin, Italy, and France) and Elkhorn Ranch and Yellowstone in the United States.

undated

Box 56

Edith Howe DeWolf: Scrapbook Contents Note: Edith's "memory book" from Miss Porter's School, Farmington, Connecticut.

1896

Box 57

DeWolf Family: Newsclipping Collection

1800s

Boxes 58

Halsey DeWolf: Photographs Contents Note: Photo albums with pictures of various trips Hal took between 1901 and 1913, including a trip to the southwestern United States (1911).

1905-1913

Box 59

Halsey DeWolf: Photographs Contents Note: Two photo albums:: "Sail Fishing, Florida" (1927) and "After the Hurricane, 1938" Providence and The Ledge, Bristol"

1927, 1938

Box 60

Mary Howe DeWolf Fulton: Postcards of Italy Contents Note: Mary Howe DeWolf spent her junior year (Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania) in Germany.The album contains postcards she collected of sites in Italy.

1936-1937

Boxes 61

Fulton Family: Photographs Contents Note: Photo album and other loose photos, likely of Marshall Fultons's family in Iowa.

undated

Box 62

Marshall N. Fulton: Photographs Contents Note: Three photo albums with pictures of Marshall's travels to Europe and one album of postcards sent to Marshall and his brother, ca. 1900-1910.

ca. 1900-1909, ca. 1930

Box 63

Marshall N. Fulton: Scrapbooks Contents Note: Two scrapbooks from Marshall's years as an undergraduate at Brown University, Rhode Island.

1916-1920

Box 64

Marshall N. Fulton: Photographs Contents Note: Two photograph albums with pictures from Marshall's two years as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford.

1920-1922

Box 65

Marshall N. Fulton: Scrapbooks Contents Note: Two scrapbooks with concert programs.

1928-1941

Boxes 66-67

Mary Howe DeWolf and Marshall N. Fulton: Scrapbooks Contents Note: Two scrapbooks of newsclippings and letters from family friends about Marshall and Mary Howe's upcoming wedding. Some letters are addressed to Halsey DeWolf. Also includes snapshots of the wedding and their honeymoon.

1940

Box 68a

Halsey DeWolf: Scrapbook Contents Note: "His Book" with letters, photographs, school work, writings,etc.

undated

Box 68b

Marshal N. Fulton: Scrapbook Contents Note: "His Book" with letters, photographs, school work, writings,etc.

undated

Box 68c

Mary Howe DeWolf Fulton: Scrapbook Contents Note: "Her Book" with letters, photographs, school work, writings,etc.

undated

Box 69

Howe, DeWolf, and Fulton Families: Loose Photographs

1880-1980

Box 70

Agnes DeWolf: Photographs

undated

Box 71

Howe Family: Photographs Contents Note: Photo album labeled "Cruise of the Yacht".

undated

Box 72

Edith Howe DeWolf: Photographs Contents Note: Photo almbum of the family trip on the Yachy "May," taken by Edith.

undated

Boxes 73-74

Halsey DeWolf: Photographs Contents Note: Loose photos of Hal's birthday parties.

1945-1957

Boxes 75

Oversized Photographs: Loose

undated

Box 76

M Mary Howe DeWolf and Marshall N. Fulton: Photographs Contents Note: Photo album of their wedding in Bristol, Rhode Island.

1940

Box 81

Edith Howe DeWolf: Diaries Contents Note: Train trip to Florida, March 1893 Start of steamship trip to Europe June 1900 (not bound) "A Line a Day" Book (5 year calendar) with infrequent entries for 1906, 1911, and 1929 Trip with Hal, Wallis, and Dr. Locke to England and France, August -October 1910; includes postcards Trip to Munich, Jan. 22-Mar 20,1937 while Mary Howe is doing her Junior Year Abroad; beginning entries in Edith’s hand; some later entries in Mary Howe’s hand

1893-1937

Box 82

Halsey DeWolf: Travel Diaries Contents Note: “Visit to Trinidad,” Jan. 17-July 10. 1887 “Journal of a Walking Trip” (unbound), June 24-July 5, 1890, and “Walking Trip in Holland and Devonshire,” July 6-August 8, 1890. "Bicycle Trip In England," August 10 - September 13, 1890 “Motor trip with the Dyers Normandy, Normandy, Bretony, Touraize” July 6-Aug. 24, 1911 Miscellaneous train trips from Providence (on loose pages), beginning with “Trip to Illinois,” 1943 and continuing to recount other train trips from 1943-194 “Visit to Trinidad,” 1950

18871950

Box 83

Agnes DeWolf: Travel Diaries and Copybooks Contents Note: Dresden, Saxony [January 1893] “Dresden, Pension, Simone,” January 1894 Copybook, undated "Christmas, 1918" “An Old Maid’s Book of Remembrance,” ca. 1905 “Jokes etc. etc.,” 1905 "Copybook with newspaper clippings, 1912 Letter from Margaret Tyndall, regarding travel, undated

1893-1912

Box 84

Marshall N. Fulton: Diaries and Calendars Contents Note: “My trip with Uncle Frank to Providence," June 4-July 23, 1914 Daily Diaries for 1915 and 1916 "A Line a Day" Book (5 year calendar) - only 1917 is complete Handbook of Brown University (2), 1916-1917, 1917-1918 Handbook of Bates College, 1918-1919 Calendar, 1920 ( with intermittent entries and appointments) Oxford University Pocket Diaries, 1920-1921 and 1921-1922 Diary (5 year), with entries for only 2 years, 1936 and 1937

1914-1937

Box 85

Frank T. Fulton: Diaries Contents Note: Summer 1905: includes time aboard S.S. Devonian from July 7-Augst 6; two copies - one handwritten and one typed; (separated into 3 folders, with return cruise on S.S. Republic brochure) Cruise aboard S.S. Adriatic from New York to England August 1909, with brochure; and S.S. Franconia, July 16, 1912 (neither appear to cover the entire trip Account of medical/patient appointments, August 1906

18871950

Box 86

At School Contents Note: William J. Fulton: Monmouth College Journal (1874) Frank T. Fulton: Illinois Industrial University, 1884 Frank T. Fulton: Knox College, 1891-1894 Frank T. Fulton: Johns Hopkins, 1896-1898, lectures notes, admission notice, and commencement invitation Edith Howe DeWolf: Copybook, 1889 Edith Howe DeWolf: Agnes Irwin School, 1890-1894: Report Books Edith Howe DeWolf: Assignments (in notebook), 1894, some with teacher comments Edith Howe DeWolf: “Dictation, c. 1895 Mary Howe DeWolf Fulton: Junior Year Abroad (Bryn Mawr), 1936-1937

1874-1837

Box 87

At School Contents Note: Marshalll N. Fulton: Keokuk High School, “Notebook” (undated) Marshalll N. Fulton: Keokuk High School, Debate Paper, 1915 Marshalll N. Fulton: Keokuk High School, Programs, Commencement song (written by Marshall), etc. Marshalll N. Fulton: Keokuk High School, Yearbook, 1916 Marshalll N. Fulton: Brown University, Kindergarten Book [c. 1918] Marshalll N. Fulton: Brown University. Programs, etc. Marshalll N. Fulton: Brown University, Yearbook Marshalll N. Fulton: Oxford University, Rhode Scholar Re-Unions, 1929 and 1947

1915-1918

Box 91

DeWolfs and Howes:Writings Contents Note: Copybook, undated and unsigned Guests book, 1926-1941 Agnes DeWolf, poems and verses, 1937 Jack and Helen DeWolf, "A Lullaby," undated James A. DeWolf, two books of verses, undated John Winthrop DeWolf, "Poems," 1855-1882 Halsey DeWolf Howe, "Descendants of John Howe," 1976 Herbert Marhsall Howe, Journal (farm happenings), 1880 Wallis E. Howe, "DeAmore et Amicitia" [Of Love and Friendship], 2 volumess, one undated and a revised 1942 edition Wallis E. Howe, The ABC of Know Howe," 1947 Wallis E. Howe, verses about Wallis by other Howes, 1948-1961 Wallis E. Howe, verses, 1954 Verses by other family members

1855-1976

Box 92

Frank T. Fulton: Writings Contents Note: "Heart Station," drafts “"Heart Station," published copies, 1955 (3) “Autobiography,” notes and vacations/trips

c. 1955

Box 93

Marshall N. Fulton and family: Writings Contents Note: Harriet Jewett Fulton, "Recollections of My Early Life" Laura Fulton, "Reminiscences" Marshall N. Fulton, Speeches/Talks, 1936-1950 Marshall N. Fulton, verses and recollections William J. Fulton, Sr., copybooks, essays, receipts, etc. William J. Fulton, Sr., "Recollections of 50 Years, 1858-1908" Unsigned

1859-1950

Box 94

Bishop Mark Anthony DeWolf Howe: Writings Contents Note: Autograph Album, 1883-1887 "A Brief Sketch of A Long Life," printed by E.W.H. (his wife, Eliza) after his death, 1897 "Reminiscences"

1880-1887

Box 95

Halsey DeWolf: Writings Contents Note: "Story of a New York Life," undated Verses, 1896-1963 Speeches and Talks, 1889-1957 “Story of the Total Solar Eclipse," 1925 "Recollections of The Society Doctor," c. 1957

1855-1976