Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Fuller, G. W. 1824 - 
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ANOTHER prominent citizen of Meeker county is G. W. Fuller, of Litchfield, a native
of Broome county, N. Y., born September 24, 1824. He is the son of Ira and Sallie
(Barnes) Fuller, both of whom were born in the State of Connecticut, the former
April 17, 1793, and the latter January 12, 1795. His father and mother were married
at Lisle, Broome county, N. Y., September 14, 1814, and in 1833 removed to Trumbull
county, Ohio, where they made their home until the death of Mr. Fuller, Sr., on his
seventy-fourth birthday; his wife survived him until March 25, 1877.

   The subject of our narrative remained with his parents until he was about fifteen
years of age, when he commenced life by teaching for one term. He then entered the
postoffice at Warren, and was there employed during the great presidential campaign
of 1840, between W, H. Harrison and Martin Van Buren. He remained in that position
for about a year, and then attended the Farmington Academy for a time. He then
entered what is now Dennison University where he remained over five years,
graduating from there in 1847. He taught school for two terms subsequent to this and
then entered the university, taking charge of the Baptist church at Birmingham, in
the Buckeye State, where he remained some three years. The next three years were
passed in the service of the Lord at Ashtabula, Ohio, after which ho occupied the
pulpit of the Baptist church at Meadville, Penn., for a like period. Having been
sent by the Baptist Home Missionary Society to Chatfield, this State, he came to
Minnesota in 185S8 and remained in the last mentioned city some seven years, a
faithful watchman upon the walls of Zion,. From there he removed to Lake City, and
during his labors in that place, extending over a period of seven years, missed but
two Sabbaths’ exercise of his beloved calling. His health becoming impaired, he came
to Litchfield in 1872, and purchasing twenty-five acres of land, established his
present nursery business.

   Mr. Fuller has three times been married, his present wife being Miss S. S.
Garfield, a second cousin of our late lamented, martyred president, James A.
Garfield. He is the parent of nine children, five of whom are living. The record of
these is Isabel, Mrs. Dr. Canney, of San Francisco, Cal.; Minnie E., whose husband,
L. Swift, is business manager of the Minneapolis Evening Journal, Annie, deceased
wife of J. Q. A. Braden, who died October 25, 1879, at Santa Cruz, California;
George Garfield, who is book-keeper for the Washburn Mill company, Minneapolis;
Pauline, the lately deceased wife of E. B. Benson, the cashier of the Meeker County
Bank, who died May 19, 1888; and Jewel and Lillian, living at. home.


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Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888

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