Frye, William Pearce – Fuller, Levi Knight
Frye, William Pearce
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Sept. 2, 1831, in Lewiston, Maine.
He served three terms as a member of the state legislature during 1861-67; was mayor of the city of Lewiston in 1866 and 1867, and was attorney general of the state of Maine during 1867-69. In 1864 he was a presidential elector; and was a delegate to the national republican conventions of 1872, 1876, and 1880. He was elected a representative to the fortysecond, forty-third, forty-fourth, fortysixth, and forty-seventh congresses as a republican. In 1881 he was elected to the United States senate to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected in 1883, in 1888, and again in 1895 for term ending in 1901.
Fryer, L. P
lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 10, 1864, in Butler, Ky. He has served as police judge of Falmouth, Ky., for two terms; and for three years was attorney of Pendleton county. In 1897 he was elected commonwealth attorney of the eighteenth judicial district, and is serving with distinction.
Fryhofer, William
farmer, legislator, was born Aug. 9, 1846, in Seymour, Ind. He is a successful farmer of Randolph, Kan.; and during 1886-87 served as a member of the Kansas state legislature.
Fuertes, Este Van Antonio
civil engineer, was born May 10, 1838, in St. John's, Porto Rico, W. I. In 1861 he was assistant engineer in public works; and in 1862-63 was director of the western district of public works on the island of Porto Rico. In 1863-64 he was assistant engineer in the Croton aqueduct of New York city; and during 1864-69 was engineer to the Croton aqueduct board. In 1870-71 he was engineer in chief of the United States Ship Canal expedition to Tehuantepec and Nicaragua; and in 1871-73 was consulting engineer in New York city. During 1873-90 he was dean of the department of civil engineering of Cornell university; and since 1890 has been director of the college of civil engineering at the same university. He performed a great engineering feat, in preparing the plans for improving the sanitation of the Brazilian city of Santos, which checked yellow fever and other epidemics.
Fulkerson, Abram
soldier, state senator, congressman, was born in May, 1834, in Washington county, Va. He served in the confederate army from 1861 to 1865, rising to the rank of colonel. He was elected a representative in the state legislature in 1871 and 1873, and a state senator in 1877 and 1879. He was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-seventh congress. a
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 Ephraim
physician, surgeon, was born Dec. 25, 1838, in Wilbraham, Mass. He graduated in 1859 from the Williston academy; and in 1863 from Amherst college. During 1861-64 he was hospital steward in the twenty-seventh regiment Massachusetts volunteer infantry; and in 1864-66 was hospital steward in the United States army, stationed at Washington, D. C.
In 1866-68 he practiced medicine in Brimfield, Mass.; and since that time has been located at Monson. In 1880-94 he was president of the Eastern Hampden Medical association, and has been president of several other medical bodies. He is the author of a number of valuable medical papers on Typhoid Fever, Diphtheria, and other diseases.
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.
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, Levi Knight
manufacturer, governor, was born Feb. 24, 1841, in Westmoreland, N. H. He organized in 1874, and until inaugurated governor, commanded the Fuller light battery of the Vermont National guard. He has held various town and village offices, elected to state senate in 1880, and lieutenant-governor of the state in 1886.
He was president of trustees at the Vermont academy at Saxton's River, Vt., an educational institution he had largely supported. He was nominated for governor of Vermont at the republican state convention held at Burlington, Vt., June 22, 1892, and inaugurated Oct. 6, 1892.