Joseph Scott Fullerton

Joseph Scott Fullerton (December 3, 1835 – March 20, 1897) was an American lawyer, officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and a leader for a short time at the Freedmen's Bureau during the Reconstruction Era. In his later years he was a National military park manager and real estate developer.

Life and career Fullerton was born in December 1835 in Chillicothe, Ohio, to Elizabeth Thompson née Scott and Humphrey Fullerton Jr. The Fullerton family had been patriots in the American Revolution and had large landholdings in Pennsylvania near Lancaster. He was educated at Chillicothe Academy and then enrolled in Miami University where he graduated in 1856. He graduated from Cincinnati Law School in 1858 and for a while worked in the office of a Chillicothe attorney before settling in St. Louis, Missouri where he continued to practice law.