Imperial-Riverside County CA Archives Biographies.....Fuller, Henry J. 1852 - 
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Author: F. C. Farr (editor, 1918)

HENRY J. FULLER, M. D., is one of the representative citizens and honored and
progressive professional men of Imperial County. Dr. Fuller was born at
Vergenes, Vermont, June 3, 1852, son of Ezra and Caroline Fuller. His father
fought in the Civil war and fell in the battle of Petersburg at the age of
thirty-five. Dr. Fuller's mother is living at Hill City, Kansas, and has reached
the age of ninety-two. The grandparents of Dr. Fuller came from France and
settled in Canada, and later settled in New England States. The subject of this
review acquired his education at the Louisville Medical College, where he
received his degree of M. D. in 1876. He then attended the College of Physicians
and Surgeons at Chicago, taking a postgraduate course. For one year Dr. Fuller
took the chair of gynecology at this institution. He located at Millbrook,
Kansas, where he practiced his profession for twenty years. He was appointed
United States surgeon at this place for a period of ten years. He then served as
surgeon for the Kansas division of the United Pacific Railroad, which office he
held for five years. He was a member for many years of the Kansas State Board of
Health. Owing to his health, Dr. Fuller removed to California and located at
Riverside, where he practiced for three years. Locating in Imperial, Dr. Fuller
established the Valley Fruit Company. He started the corner drug store in
Imperial, he having studied pharmacy. He was a member of the American Medical
Association and various State associations, but owing to his ill health he was
obliged to give up practicing his profession. Fraternally he is a member of the
K. of P. lodge. Dr. Fuller married in Illinois, March 14, 1875, Miss Ella M.
Hushaw, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hushaw, both deceased. Five children
blessed this union. Kate died in 1906 and is buried in Richland, Oregon; Roy, a
practicing physician, resides in Los Angeles; Frank, a druggist, in Los Angeles;
Harry, a first lieutenant in the U. S. Army; Ruth, wife of Harry Sheldon of
Imperial. The great uncle of Dr. Fuller had the appointment as minister of the
interior of France.

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THE HISTORY
OF
IMPERIAL COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
EDITED BY
F. C. FARR

IN ONE VOLUME
ILLUSTRATED
Published by ELMS AND FRANKS
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 1918


Printed by Taylor & Taylor, San Francisco


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