Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Fuller, Briggs 1824 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

Briggs Fuller, retired farmer, P. O. Gardner, was born January 27, 1824, in 
Seneca County, N. Y., is a son of Jesse and Rachel Allen Fuller, the former a 
native of Vermont, and the latter of New York; his great-grandparents, Allen, 
were of German descent, and emigrated at an early day, from Holland, to 
America; his parents had five children - Leroy, Abel B., William W., Sarah M. 
and Callista J.; the father was a ship carpenter; the parents were Methodists. 
Our subject attended school but little, and that in a log cabin. In his 
younger days, he worked at calking canal boats and ship-building. In 1860, he 
came West and engaged in farming, renting for three years, and then bought 
eighty acres in Grundy County, and has since added forty acres, all of which 
is well improved and the attainment of his own labors, together with that of 
his estimable consort, whom he married in 1851. Her maiden name was Maranda 
Vanhouten, born April 2, 1832, and is a daughter of Aaron and Mary (Daily) 
Vanhouten, the former a native of Holland and the latter of New York. Her 
parents came to Grundy County about 1854, settling in Goodfarm Township, where 
her father died August 20, 1880; her mother is still living; she was one of 
seven children - Betsey, Ann (deceased), Mary, Maranda, Jane (deceased), 
Sarah, William; her mother was a Methodist. Mr. and Mrs. Fuller have no 
children; they have reared Mary, a daughter of Thomas Campbell, whom they took 
when four years old; they are also rearing Samuel N. West, a son of Mrs. F's 
sister, Jane (deceased). The father of Samuel was an early settler of this 
county. The grandfather Allen was a blacksmith, and made the nails for the 
construction of the first house in the State of New York. Mr. F. votes the 
Republican ticket. Is now living in Gardner, retired from farm labors.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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