Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Fuller, Buel A 1832 - 
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Author: Portraits & Bio Sketches, 1890

BUEL A. FULLER. The legal fraternity of Will County would be but poorly 
represented in this volume were not mention made of the gentleman above named, 
who is one of the oldest lawyers living in Joliet, and whose portrait appears 
on the opposite page. He has retired from active life after many years of 
unremitting toil, by means of which he secured for himself a fine footing in 
the profession and a competence which enables him to spend his winters in the 
South, and to enjoy all the comforts and even luxuries of life. His home, 
which is one of the finest residences in or about Joliet, is located just 
outside the city limits and surrounded by over two hundred acres of beautiful 
and well developed land. Not only is the dwelling itself an attractive one but 
in its furnishing it evinces the taste and culture of the occupants. Mr. 
Fuller is a self-made man, as his life history will show, and as such he 
deserves the greater credit for his attainments and acquisitions. His nature 
is a genial one, his character honorable and his mental abilities of a high 
order. In all his enterprises he is ably assisted by his wife, who presides 
over their elegant home with gracious hospitality. She bore the maiden name of 
Edith Carpenter, and was born in the Empire State to Alfred and Susan (Fargo) 
Carpenter. She became the wife of Mr. Fuller January 28, 1885. The natal day 
of Mr. Fuller was August 8, 1832, his birth having taken place in Edgar 
County, Ill., about six miles east of Paris. His parents, Hiram and Nancy 
(Murphy) Fuller, made their first settlement after marriage in the county 
where he was born, whence they removed to Coles County, and then to Danville. 
There the father died in 1841, the mother surviving until 1869. They had a 
family of five children, of whom our subject was the second. The father was 
born amid the Green Mountains in Vermont and the mother in Miami County, Ohio. 
The earliest recollections of our subject are of Danville, where his life was 
passed till the age of ten years, at which time he went to Perrysville, Ind., 
and entered a printing office. There he was employed about two years and a 
half, when he returned to his former home, spending a short time in an office 
there and going thence to Covington, Ind. In that thriving town he spent some 
time, leaving it for a position in Peoria, Ill., whence he was driven several 
months later by the breaking out of the cholera. Returning again to Danville, 
which was his home during all this time, he after a short sojourn took his 
departure for LaFayette Ind., walking the entire distance, having but a small 
amount of money which he had borrowed to help him along. There he was employed 
on the LaFayette Courier for several months, and being a good type setter, 
although but a boy, he was able to do a man's work and he received as much pay 
for his labor as any one in that branch of the business. In that city he was 
connected with others in publishing the Wabash Scratches, which was in great 
demand during the months of its publication. We next find young Fuller in 
connection with Daniel Clapp, of Danville, Ill., publishing the Temperance 
Journal and Sons Companion, an enterprise which was not carried on, however, 
for any great length of time. New Albany, Ind., was the next abiding place of 
the young man, who remained in that city nearly a year, next going to Madison, 
where he became foreman on a paper, known as the Madison Banner, and published 
by Bright Bros. Several months later, on July 2, 1852, he came to Joliet and 
purchased a half interest in the True Democrat, his associate being Alexander 
McIntosh. The succeeding summer he sold his connection with the paper on 
account of sickness and for a time, while regaining his health, he was in a 
daguerreotype gallery learning the business but not with a view to following 
it permanently. Soon after this Mr. Fuller went to Chicago, finding employment 
in the job office of the Journal for a few months and then being transferred 
to the foremanship of the news department. There he remained but a short time 
ere entering the office of the Chicago Democrat, then edited by "Long John'' 
Wentworth, from which he went to that of the Democratic Press. Some months 
later he purchased a half interest in a grocery store at the corner of 
Randolph and Greene Streets and embarked in the career of a tradesman, buying 
out his associate after a year of partnership and removing the stock to 
Joliet. Here he carried on the business about a twelvemonth when he sold out 
the stock and fixtures and returned to his former line of labor. The spring of 
1856 found Mr. Fuller the purchaser of the Democrat office at Kankakee, and 
the editor and manager of that sheet for a year, during which period he began 
reading law. In 1858, he was admitted to the bar and entered into partnership 
with Judge S. W. Randall and the Hon. Henry Snapp, the firm being known as 
Randall, Snapp & Fuller. The connection continued about a year when the second 
member withdrew, the firm thereafter being known as Randall & Fuller, until 
the admission into it of Royal E. Barber, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere 
in this volume. The new firm of Barber, Randall & Fuller continued until the 
early part of the last decade, when Mr. Fuller withdrew and abandoned the 
practice of the law. The firm of Randall & Fuller was the oldest law 
partnership in Joliet, Mr. Barber's connection with them covering a period of 
about three years. Since his withdrawal from legal business in 1882, Mr. 
Fuller has passed his winters in the South and his summers in various sections 
to which fancy has led him. On two different occasions he was elected City 
Attorney, but he has had no particular liking for politics and has not cared 
to fill public offices. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and has been 
an Odd Fellow since 1852.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890 
 


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