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Fuller, Samuel Richard – Funston, C. M

Fuller, Samuel Richard

clergyman, author, was born in 1850, in Massachusetts. He is an episcopal clergyman of Massachusetts; and the author of Personality, a volume of Sermons.

Fuller, Sarah Margaret

author, was born May 23, 1810, in Cambridgeport, Mass. Women in the Nineteenth Century was her most important work. In Rome, she married Marquis d'Ossoli, an Italian..

On her return to America with her husband and infant child, the vessel was wrecked off Fire island, and the Ossoli family perished. She died July 16, 1850, on Fire Island Beach.

Fuller, Thomas J. D

lawyer, congressman, was born March 17, 1808, in Hardwick, Vt. He was elected state's attorney for his county for three years. He was elected a representative from Maine to the thirty-first, thirty-second, thirty-third, and thirty-fourth congresses; and in 1857 was appointed second auditor of the treasury, which office he held until 1861. He died Feb. 13, 1876, near Upperville, Va.

Fuller, Timothy

state senator, congressman, was born July 11, 1778, in Chilmark, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts senate from 1813 to 1817; and speaker of the lower house in 1825.

He was again a state representative in 1831; a state councilor in 1831; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1817 to 1825. He died Oct. 1, 1835, in Groton, Mass.

Fuller, William E

lawyer, congressman, was born March 30, 1846, in Howard, Pa. He was a representative in the Iowa legislature in 1876 and 1877. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth congress as a republican.

Fuller, William K

congressman.

He was a member of the assembly of New York in 1829 and 1830. At one time he was adjutant-general of the state militia; and from 1833 to 1837 a representative in congress.

Fulton, Andrew S

congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1847 to 1849.

Fulton, John

clergyman, author, was born April 2, 1834, in Scotland. He is an episcopal clergyman noted as an able exponent of canon law, and professor of that subject at the Episcopal Divinity school in Philadelphia. He is the author of Letters on Christian Unity; Index Canonum; The Laws of Marriage; Documentary History of the Episcopal Church in the Confederate States; The Beautiful Land, a description of Palestine; and The Chalcedonian Decree.

Fulton, John H

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1833 to 1835. He died Jan. 28, 1836, in Abingdon.

Fulton, Robert

engineer, inventor, was born July 26, 1765, in Lancaster county, Pa. He invented a machine for spinning flax, another for making ropes, and was proprietor of the first panorama exhibited in Paris.

Though others had previously conceived the idea of steam navigation, Fulton was the first who successfully realized it. The Clermont, sometimes called Fulton's Folly, Folly, launched in 1807, was the first steamboat on the Hudson river. He died Feb. 21, 1815, in New York.

Fulton, William S

soldier, lawyer, governor, United States senator, was born June 2, 1795, in Cecil county, Md. In 1829 he was appointed secretary of the territory of Arkansas, and in 1835 governor of the same, which office he held until that territory was admitted into the union as a state, when he was elected a senator from Arkansas, serving from 1836 to 1844.

He died Aug. 15, 1844, in Little Rock, Ark.

Funston, C. M

journalist, jurist, was born in 1854, in Washington county, N. Y.

He is the editor and owner of The Sun of Flagstaff, Ariz. He has been county judge, commissioner of immigration, and has held various other public positions of honor.