Career
During his legislative tenure, Nulty served on the Senate’s standing committees for Military Affairs, for Public Supply of Light, Heat and Water and for Education. As an embalmer, Nulty was the inventor of a “Derma” formula embalming process that was used by undertakers throughout the nation at the turn of the 19th century. In his earlier career as a metal roller, he also invented a railroad spike and, thereafter, patented a two piece rail invention, which doubled as an electrical power line conduit and short grounding system (United States Patent Number 372,273) and which he sold to the Johnstown Railway Company in 1888.
In that same year, Nulty opened his Nulty Funeral Home business, where he employed his newly invented Derma formula and where several successive generations of the Nulty family have since operated the Nulty Funeral Home"s undertaking business.
