Biographical Sketch of F. B. Fuson, M. D., Wright County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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F. B. Fuson, M. D., of Mansfield, Mo., was born in Wayne County, Tenn.,
in 1859, and is a son of John and Sophronia (Gallegly) Fuson, both of
whom were born in Tennessee, the former's birth occurring in 1823 and
the latter's in 1833.  A short time previous to the breaking out of the
Rebellion they moved to Illinois, and after serving for about three 
months in the Federal army, he engaged in farming, and in 1870 came to
Wright County, but is now a resident of Webster County, and is engaged
in the hardware business.  F. B. Fuson is the third of their five 
children, and was educated in Missouri and when starting out in life
for himself commenced as a drug clerk, afterward embarking in the busi-
ness on his own responsibility in Hartville, where he remained several
years.  He graduated from the Missouri Medical College at St. Louis in
1886, as an M. D., and soon after located in Mansfield, where he immed-
iately entered upon the practice of his profession, and is considered
one of the rising young physicians of the county.  He is progressive 
and enterprising, and is taking steps to have a medical society organ-
ized in the county.  He is a Master Mason, and a member of the A. F. &
A. M.  He was married to Miss Stella Johnson, of Kansas City, Mo., and
by her is the father of one child, Gertrude.  The name Fuson is of 
Welsh oritgin, but the paternal grandfather was born in Virginia, and
was an early immigrant to Tennessee.  The Galleglys are of Scotch-Irish
lineage.

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