Fuller, Melville Weston – Funk, Benjamin F
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
clergyman, author, was born April 22, 1804, in Beaufort, S. C. He was a baptist clergyman of Charleston, and subsequently of Baltimore; and the author of Argument on Baptist Close Communion; Sermons; and Scriptural Baptism. He died Oct. 20, 1876, in Baltimore, Md.
FULLER, RICHARD FREDERICK, lawyer, author, was born May 15, 1821, in Cambridge, Mass. He was a lawyer of Boston who published Visions in Verse; and Chaplain Fuller, a life of his brother Arthur. He died May 30, 1869, in Wayland, Mass.
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.
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.
Fullerton, David
state legislator, congressman, was born in 1771. He was for several years a member of the legislature of Pennsylvania; and represented that state in congress from 1819 to 1820, when he resigned. He died Feb. 1, 1843, in Greencastle, Pa.
Fullerton, George Stuart
clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1859. He is an episcopal clergyman and professor of moral philosophy in the university of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Conception of the Infinite and the Solution of the Mathematical Antinomies, a psychological treatise; and A Plain Argument for God.
Fullerton, William Morton
journalist, author, was born in 1865, in Connecticut. He was a journalist in Boston for several years, and since 1890 a member of the Paris staff of the London Times. He is the author of Cairo, a descriptive essay; and Patriotism and Science, a collection of essays.
Fulmore, Zachary Taylor
soldier, lawyer, jurist, author, was born Nov. 11, 1846, in Robeson county, N. C. He attended the country school; North Carolina Military institute, and the university of Virginia. He served as a soldier in the confederate army; was in the engagement at Fort Fisher, and from January until June, 1865, was a prisoner of war. He has been a member of the board of trustees of the Texas Institute for the Blind, county judge of Travis county for six years; and a trustee of the public schools of Austin, Tex. He is a successful lawyer; and author of a History of the Geography of Texas, and other works.
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, Justin Dewey
clergyman, lecturer, author, was born March 1, 1828, in Earlville, N. Y. He received a liberal education, and graduated from the university of Michigan, and from the Theological seminary of Rochester, N. Y. In 1853 he became the editor of The Gospel Banner of St. Louis, Mo. He has filled pastorates in St. Louis, Sandusky, Albany; was for ten years pastor of Tremont temple of Boston, Mass.; and thence was pastor of the Hanson place and Centennial church of Brooklyn, N. Y.
He there took a prominent part in anti- Roman catholic work; became president of the Pauline propaganda; and subsequently resigned his pastorate in order to give all his time to that work in Somerville, Mass. He is a brilliant lecturer on religious subjects; and has received the appellation of the Luther of the nineteenth century. He is the author of The Roman Catholic Element in American History; The True Woman; Show Your Colors, a Story of Boston Life; The Way Out; Witnessing for the Truth, or the Overthrow of the Papacy; and Rome in America.
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.
Funk, Benjamin F
soldier, congressman, was born Oct. 17, 1838, in Funk's Grove, Ill. He served during the civil war as a private in the sixty-eighth Illinois infantry. He removed to Bloomington in 1869; and was elected mayor of that city in 1871, and was re-elected six times consecutively. He was elected to the fiftythird congress as a republican.