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Fuller, Andrew S

horticulturist, journalist, author, was born in 1828, in New York. He was a horticultural writer and journalist of New York city, and editor of Woodward's Record of Horticulture. He is the author of The Fruit Tree Culturist; The Grape Culturist; The Small Fruit Culturist; The Strawberry Culturist; Practical Forestry; The Propagation of Plants; and The Nut Culturist. He died in 1896.

Fuller, Anna

author. She is a Boston novelist; and the author of Pratt Portraits; A Literary Courtship; Peak and Prairie; and A Venetian June.

FULLER, BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born in May, 1818, in Augusta, Maine.

In 1850-54 he was judge of the municipal court; and in 1856 was a member of the state legislature. Since 1864 he has practiced his profession in Boston, Mass.

Fuller, Benoni Stinson

educator, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 13, 1825, in Warrick county, Ind.

In 1862 he was elected to the state senate, serving four years; and in 1866 and 1868 elected to the lower house of the legislature. In 1870 and 1872 he was elected to the senate for a second and third term; and was then elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses as a democrat.

Fuller, Ceylon Canfield

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born June 25, 1832, in Chardon, Ohio. He is a successful lawyer of Big Rapids, Mich.; and in 1869-70 was a member of the Michigan state legislature. He has been postmaster, prosecuting attorney, judge of probate, circuit court commissioner; and in 1882 was elected judge of the twenty-seventh judicial circuit court.

Fuller, Charles E

lawyer, state senator, was born March 31, 1849, in Flora, Ill. As a lawyer he has filled the positions of city attorney of Belvidere, Ill., and state's attorney of Boone county.

For six years he served as a representative in the general assembly of Illinois; and eight years as senator.

Fuller, Edward

journalist, author, was born in 1800, in New York. He is a Boston journalist, subsequently on the staff of the Providence Journal; and the author of The Complaining Millions of Men, a novel of social conditions in Boston.

Fuller, George

congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1843 to 1845.

Fuller, George

artist, was born in 1822, in Deerfield, Mass. A memorial exhibition of his works was held at the Boston Museum of the Fine Arts in 1884.

He died March 21, 1884, in Brookline, Mass.

Fuller, George M

lawyer, legislator, was born in Pittsfield, Vt. He is prominent as a lawyer and district attorney of his county. He served with distinction as a member of the Vermont legislature.

Fuller, Henry Blake

author, was born in 1857, in Illinois. He is the author of The Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani; The Chatelaine of La Trinité; The Cliff Dwellers; With the Procession; and The Puppet-Booth, twelve one-act plays.

Fuller, Henry M

lawyer, United States senator, was born Jan. 3, 1820, in Bethany, Pa. In 1848 he was elected to the legislature of Pennsylvania; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1851 to 1853, and from 1855 to 1857. He died Dec. 26, 1860, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Fuller, Hiram

journalist, author, was born about 1815, in Halifax, Mass.

He was a journalist of New York city who at the outset of the civil war supported the confederate cause, and emigrated to England on that account. Subsequently he became an adventurer in Paris. He was the author of The Groton Letters; Belle Brittan on a Tour; Sparks from a Locomotive; and Grand Transformation Scenes in the United States. He died in 1880.

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