Husband Barclay Nulton 1
Born: 8 Jan 1835 - Kittanning, Armstrong Co, PA 1
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Died: 11 May 1912 2
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Father: Judge John Funk Nulton (1809-1878) 1
Mother: Margaret Rebecca Lemmon (1814-1904) 1
Marriage: 3 Oct 1876 2
Other Spouse: Sophia Reilly (1839-1873) 2 - 2 Jan 1864 - Camden, Camden Co, NJ 2
Wife Adelaide Reed 2
Born: 31 May 1857 - Philadelphia, PA 2
Christened:
Died: 27 Apr 1893 2
Buried:
Father: George Reed ( - ) 2
Mother:
Children
• They had no children.
General Notes: Husband - Barclay Nulton
He was practically self-educated. When a mere boy he worked in the brickyard during the day, studying evenings and reciting three times a week to Rev. Mr. Barrett. For some time he was engaged in work on a private road from Kittanning over the hill back of the courthouse to the residence of Alexander Caldwell, receiving twenty-five cents a day. Until he was a young man he remained with his father. He had always determined to continue his education until he was fitted to enter professional life, but he was undecided for some time whether to enter the field of medicine or law. He finally chose the latter, and became a student in the office of Judge Joseph Buffington and Robert W. Smith, of Kittanning. After his admission to the bar, in 1858, he commenced practice in Wirt County, VA (later W. VA), where he remained until the breaking out of the Civil war, at that time returning to Kittanning. He raised a company of troops which he tendered to Gov. A. Curtin, the “war governor” of Pennsylvania, but as there was no money available to transport them the organization was abandoned, and the same fate befell his efforts to raise a company of cavalry also tendered to Governor Curtin. He then turned all his attention to his law practice, to which he devoted the greater part of his time and energies from that time until his sudden death. He kept the old Lemmon estate in Valley township, and his management of the farm work and the shipping of fine horses from Kentucky gave him welcome diversion from the arduous work of his profession. He never was particularly active in public affairs and never cared for office. He was a Democrat in his political preferences. [HAC 1914, 545]
“To appreciate Barclay Nulton at his true worth one had to know him intimately. It was my privilege so to know him. He was a student of human nature and no man at the bar was a better judge of men than he. In important cases he watched the court proceedings closely, whether engaged in the case or not, and then examined the law carefully for himself. He was a student of the books. Night after night his light was burning at two o'clock. He never complained of being busy, yet was always at work. Few lawyers were better posted in the fundamental principles of the law or looked up the law applying to the case more carefully than did he. He belonged to the old school. He was incapable of dishonesty and despised trickery and unfair dealing. He was a dangerous opponent in a case. He was an original character and had a style of his own.
“He believed in the brotherhood of men and carried his belief into action. His hand was ever open to the poor and needy and he was the helper of the poor in a practical way. He despised jingling theories and professions that died at the threshold of active practicability.
“In literature he was an omnivorous student. He read the best writings on all the questions of the day-even attempted to understand electricity, but frankly admitted his failure and was anxious to find some one who did understand it. He studied the masters in both prose and poetry, but would not stand for anything that was not clean.
“He was a lover of the beautiful in nature, art and literature. He was of an artistic and poetic temperament. Under a seemingly rough exterior were the chords of a character which only intimate friends and associates were permitted to see. He was strongly social and a firm friend.
“In religion he accepted the Bible unqualified by either dogma or exegesis. To him it was the word of God and he wanted no distorting or twisting of its declarations or teachings.”-W. L. Peart.
General Notes: Wife - Adelaide Reed
She was raised in the family of George and Rebecca Radcliff, in Doylestown, Bucks County, PA.
She was an artist of more than ordinary gifts, and there were many beautiful specimens of her work in the Nulton home.