Fullerton Wells was the father of Mrs. Rosemae Wells Campbell of Colorado Springs, CO. The artifacts of her father's newspaper and photographs of him during his service in The Spanish American War are prized possessions of the Pompton Lakes Museum.

Since May 18, 1993, The Pompton Lakes Museum has been the recipient of the Criterion, a hand-written newspaper by Fullerton Wells of his days in Pompton dated January 1893 through April 1893 when he wrote his "Last Issue".

The newspaper is a recounting of the days in Pompton. The names of McDanitt, Ludlum, Colfax, Wells, Reames, DeForest, DeMiIle, Potter, Titus, Durling, DeBow, Terhiine, Houman, Bartholf, Post and Einstein recur throughout the pages with anecdotes of illnesses, deaths, social visits, travels, parties and ordinary daily occurrences.

These accounts of happenings to people we read of in our early Pompton history are strangely revealing. The Criterion takes characters and transforms them into real people. Names of streets, homes and the characters who were the pioneers of our communities become real from the descriptive notes in this Criterion.