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- ↑ "John H. Fulton, Financier, Dead. President of the National Park Bank Stricken Suddenly at Country Home. Began Career as a Clerk. Organized Several Banks in the South. A Forceful Figure in Financial Circles". The New York Times . September 26, 1927. Retrieved 2015-03-07.
- 1 2 "Canal Bank and Trust Company papers" (Document). Tulane University.
- ↑ Publications of the Louisiana Historical Society, Volumes 7-10, 1915
- ↑ National Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1907