FULTON, a city of Missouri, U.S.A., 25m. N.E. of Jefferson City, on Federal highway 54 and the Chicago and Alton railroad; the county seat of Callaway county. The population was 5,595 in 1920; 193o, 6,105. Cattle, mules, grain and hay are raised in the region, and there are coal mines and mineral springs near the city. The principal manufactures are fire-brick and shoes. Fulton is the seat of Westminster college for men (Presbyterian), founded in 1849 as Fulton college; Synodical college (Presbyte rian, 1871) and William Woods college (Christian, 1890), both for women; a State school for the deaf (1851) ; and the oldest State hospital for the insane in Missouri (1847). The town was laid out in 1825 and named Volney, but was re-named a little later in honour of Robert Fulton. It was incorporated in