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Fuller, Homer Taylor – Fuller, Samuel

Fuller, Homer Taylor

educator, college president, was born Nov. 15, 1838, in Lempster, N. H. In 1864 he graduated from Dartmouth college; and from the Union Theological seminary in 1869. During 1870-82 he was principal of St. Johnsbury academy, Vermont; president of the Worcester Polytechnic institute, Massachusetts, during 1882-94; and since that time has been president of the Drury college of Springfield, Mo.

Fuller, Howard G

educator, jurist, was born Jan. 5, 1851, in Warren county, N. Y. He has been principal of public schools of Union, Iowa, and county superintendent of Hardin county, Iowa. He has been judge of the sixth judicial circuit of South Dakota, and is now judge of the supreme court of South Dakota.

Fuller, J. C

railroad president. He is president of Hunter's Run and Slate Belt railroad.

Fuller, Jerome

jurist. He was an early emigrant to Minnesota; and in 1851 was appointed chief justice of the United States court for that territory.

Fuller, John Wallace

soldier, was born July 28, 1827, in England. He was brevetted major-general of volunteers in 1865. He was appointed collector of the port of Toledo, Ohio, by President Grant, in 1874, and reappointed in 1878.

He died March 12, 1891, in Toledo, Ohio.

Fuller, Melville Weston

chief justice of the United States, was born Feb. 11, 1833, in Augusta, Maine. He removed to Chicago, Ill., in 1856, where he practiced law until appointed chief justice. In 1862 he was a member of the state constitutional convention; and was a member of the state legislature from 1863 to 1865. He was appointed chief justice in 1888, confirmed July 20, 1888, and took the oath of office Oct. 8, same year.

Fuller, Oliver Franklin

druggist, was born Oct. 19, 1829, in Sherman, Conn. In 1852 he entered the drug business in Chicago, Ill., and in 1871 took into partnership Henry W. Fuller of Maine, and continued the business under the firm name of Fuller and Fuller. At the great fire of 1871 his store, comprising numbers 20-28 Market street, was the only wholesale building of any kind left standing in the city.

Fuller, Oramel Baum

lumberman, legislator, was born Jan. 22, 1858, in Jersey City, N. J. In 1869 he moved to Michigan; has been justice of the peace; and served three terms as a representative in the state legislature from Ford River.

Fuller, Oscar A

lawyer, legislator, was born Jan. 17, 1844, in Alfred, N. Y.

When seventeen years of age he enlisted as a union soldier during the civil war.

He has attained success as an able lawyer of Wellsville, N. Y.; and for six years was district attorney of his county. In 1894 he served with distinction as a member of the New York constitutional convention.

Fuller, Philo C

congressman, was born Aug. 13, 1787, in New Marlborough, Mass. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1830; and a representative in congress from New York from 1833 to 1837. He was the second assistant postmaster-general from 1841 to 1843; comptroller of New York in 1851. died Aug. 16, 1855, in Geneva, N. Y. and He

Fuller, Richard Henry

artist, was born Oct. 19, 1822, in Bradford, N. H.

He had excellent natural gifts, and such a retentive memory that he is said to have made a clever copy of a Lambinet, which he had seen only for a few moments. He died Dec. 24, 1871, in Chelsea, Mass.

Fuller, Samuel

educator, clergyman, author, was born in 1802, in New York. He was an episcopal clergyman, professor at the Berkeley Divinity school, Middletown, Conn.; and the author of Confirmation, its Authority and Nature; and The Revelation of St. John Self-Interpreted.