Chapter Six

  Richard Alexander Fullerton,M.D.,L.L.D. was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania 1827, he is my grandfather. His father wanted him to become a lawyer so he went to Dickinson College and got a degree in law, then he continued on in college at the University of Pennsylvania to get the degree he wanted in medicine.  He graduated in 1849.

  He became a doctor, he did everything to please his father. He went to the college his father wanted him to go to, he got the degree that his father wanted him to have. But, he also went to the school he wanted and got the degree that he wanted.  My grandfather was very hard headed and very smart. Compassion for his own children was not a strong point, if it had been, then my uncles & father's lives would have been much different.

  My grandfather was a resident physician at the Philadelphia Hospital from 1851 - 1853, then he became the doctor for the Southern Home for Children in 1853. In 1854 he became the consulting physician at the Philadelphia Hospital.

  It is here that he came into his own. He was an astounding teacher and that was the majority of his life, teaching others about medicine plus having a private practice.  He was a member of the College of Physicians from 1854 to his death. He was one of the founders of the following:Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, The Gynaecean Hospital, member of American Philosophical Society and Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. He was also a trustee for the University of Pennsylvania.

  In 1856 he was one of the founders of the Children's Hospital and gave 100% of his time to it.

  1858, he met and married my grandmother, Sarah Hannah Boies. Sarah's roots go back to King John of England, Llywelyn the Great of Wales and Mary, mother of Jesus. They produced 7 sons:

Boies died in infancy

Boies born 1860, he would become the most famous of us all.

Charles Bingham born 1862 married Kathrine Drexel

Richard Alexander Fullerton Jr born 1863 married Dorothy Palmer, this is my mother but Uncle Richard is not my father.

Spencer born 1865 married wife's name unknown

Francis Boies born 1867 married in England or Ireland, wife's name unknown

Philip Thomas born 1869 married Julie Villers McMillan, this is my father but the real Julie is not my mother.

  This is my family and the truth about them will be told in these pages for the first time ever.