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Meaning & History
Transferred use of the surname Fountain. This was borne by Fountain E. Pitts (1808-1874), an American Methodist minister and Confederate chaplain, Fountain L. Thompson (1854-1942), an American senator from North Dakota, and Fountain Hughes (ca. 1859-1957), an American former slave interviewed in 1949 by the Library of Congress as part of the Federal Writers' Project.