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NAME OF INFORMANT Julius James Fountain
Ancestry
Of English extraction
Place and date of birth
Baltimore, Maryland, January 31, 1855
Family
Lifelong bachelor. Niece, Isolde Fountain Bouchard, is closest living relative.
Places lived in, with dates
Primary residence in Mt. Vernon, Baltimore, until completion of Sprangbur Castle in 1890. Spent ten months in Europe in 1875.
Education
Eight years of formal schooling as a child. Six months of unofficial enrollment at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris to learn basic principles of architecture.
Occupation and accomplishments
Founder of Fountain Seltzer Co., currently the largest beverage company in the mid-Atlantic. Holds four US patents relating to siphon technology. Honorary doctorate degree, Johns Hopkins University. Knight, Order of the Oak Crown (Luxembourg). Co-monarch of the Kingdom of Edlo. [AA: Informant wishes this recorded, but will not elaborate.]
Special skills and interests
Languages—German, French, Luxembourgish, “Edlosian” [AA: Hearing it briefly spoken, I believe this may be pig latin?]. Interests—Architecture, camouflage, astronomy, viola da gamba.
