Ottawa-Sandusky County OhArchives Biographies.....FULLER, William January 23, 1799 - January 7, 1884
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From 'Commemorative biographical record of the counties of Sandusky and Ottawa, 
Ohio by Anonymous 1896:

     TAYLOR FULLER, president of the Peoples Bank at Clyde, is a business man 
of recognized and deserved prominence among the diversified interests of 
Sandusky county.  He is one of those sound, conservative men, whose judgment is 
rarely if ever at fault.  He possesses a mind of those qualities which 
thoroughly grasp the subject it engages itself upon, determines its relation to 
extraneous matters, and finally passes unerring judgment upon the consequences 
of given conditions.  He is thoroughly conversant with the principles which 
rule in the commercial world.  Men like him are needed in every community to 
give voice to sound business principles, and to give proper direction to 
enterprise and industry.
     Mr. FULLER comes of sterling pioneer stock.  He was born in Townsend 
township, Sandusky county, March 29, 1840, son of William and Emma M. (LEVISEE) 
FULLER.  William FULLER was one of the hardy and respected pioneers of Sandusky 
county who, perhaps, met with more than his share of severe hardships and 
misfortunes, but whose strength of character conquered every obstacle and bore 
him safely on to eventual comfort and affluence.  William FULLER was born in 
Hawley, Mass., January 23, 1799.  His father was Jason FULLER, a native of 
Connecticut, where he was born May 24, 1767.  When a young man Jason FULLER 
moved to Massachusetts, and there married Philanda TAYLOR.  In 1816 he moved 
with his family to what is now Livingston county, N. Y., and here his wife died 
two years later, aged forty-nine years.  Jason FULLER died October 25, 1819, at 
the home of his son William, in Milan township, Huron county.  He had been a 
farmer through life.  Both he and his wife were honest, upright people, and 
members of the Baptist Church.  They had eight children, as follows:  Cynthia, 
who married, in Massachusetts, Silas PRATT, moved in 1824 to Sandusky county, 
Ohio, and died here; Rachel, who married Amos HAMMOND, in New York State, and 
died in Michigan; Philanda, first wife of James MORRILL, died in Massachusetts; 
Electa, second wife of James MORRILL, died in Kansas; William, father of Taylor 
FULLER; John, who married Rhoda POWELL in Green Creek township, and died in 
Nebraska; Betsey, who married Ichabod MUNGER in New York State, and died in 
Michigan; Thomas, who married Margaret EWART in New York, and died in Michigan.
     William FULLER remained in his father's family until February, 1818.  He 
then started alone and afoot for the wilds of Ohio, arriving thirteen days 
later in Milan township, Huron county, where his father, his eldest sister and 
his youngest brother joined him two weeks later, and took possession of a tract 
of land for which Jason, the father, had previously negotiated.  William 
engaged to clear ten acres as a compensation for his time during the two 
remaining years of his minority.  In July of the same year he returned to New 
York and to Massachusetts on business.  While at the New York home his mother 
died, before the father could arrive.  Here William FULLER married Mehetable 
BOTSFORD, November 7, 1818, and in February, with his wife and his father, 
returned to Ohio with a yoke of oxen and a sled, the journey consuming twenty-
two days.  His father died in the following autumn, and William continued to 
reside in Milan township until 1824, cultivating and clearing land which his 
father had negotiated for, but had never purchased.  In 1823 William FULLER 
purchased forty acres in Green Creek township, Sandusky county, and in the 
spring of 1824 moved to the little place and began to clear and improve it.  
But misfortunes overtook him.  He was taken ill in June, and was unable to work 
until late in August.  Through the fall he suffered with ague.  During the 
following summer he could do scarcely and work.  In August, 1826, his oxen ran 
away, throwing his eldest child from the cart, and killing him.  The same month 
his wife and youngest child died.  Leaving his two remaining children in the 
care of his sister, Mrs. HAMMOND, he returned to New York State and worked 
there four years.  He, in Livingston county, married Cynthia HAVENS, May 15, 
1831, and with her returned to his home in Green Creek township.  In 1834 he 
bought wild land in Townsend township, and again began a pioneer career.  Death 
entered his household January 23, 1835, and again took away his wife.  Left 
with four children to care for, he could not well break up housekeeping, and on 
July 6, 1835, he married Marcia M. GEORGE, a native of New York State.  She 
survived her marriage just one year.  Mr. FULLER was again united in marriage 
October 19, 1837, this time to Emma M. LEVISEE, who survived him.  She was born 
in Lima, N. Y., March 24, 1818, daughter of Aaron and Anna (LYON) LEVISEE.
     

Aaron LEVISEE was born in New Jersey, June 19, 1774, son of James LEVISEE, who 
had previously moved to that State from Connecticut.  Aaron was the eldest 
child of a family of nine children.  His boyhood was passed in Connecticut and 
Massachusetts.  He acquired a fair education, followed the seas three years as 
clerk of a sailing vessel, then taught school.  While teaching a term at 
Lanesborough, Mass., he had for a pupil Anna LYON, whom he soon after married.  
She was born at Lanesborough, May 13, 1778, daughter of Thomas and Thankful 
LYON, both natives of Massachusetts.  After marriage Aaron and Anna LEVISEE 
lived in Massachusetts, in Greenfield, Saratoga Co., N. Y., in Lima, Livingston 
Co., N. Y., and in Allen, Allegany Co., N. Y.  Here Aaron LEVISEE died June 18, 
1828.  Four years later the widow migrated with her children to Townsend 
township, Sandusky Co., Ohio.  In 1844 she moved to the home of her daughter, 
Mrs. Thankful BOTSFORD, near Ann Arbor, Mich., and died there July 3, 1845.  
The nine children of Aaron and Anna LEVISEE were Almedia, born August 1, 1799, 
married Ezra LYONS, and died in Townsend township, Sandusky Co., Ohio, June 28, 
1853; Eveline, born June 21, 1801, married Hubbard JONES, and died in Townsend 
township June 13, 1873; Thankful, born July 15, 1804, married David BOTSFORD, 
and died in Washtenaw county, Mich.; Eliza Ann, born May 6, 1806, first married 
to Jonathan WISNER, afterward to Joseph CUMMINGS (she died in Townsend township 
November 6, 1838); John L. and Sarah L. (twins), born July 4, 1809, the former 
a prominent citizen of Townsend township, died at the age of eighty-six, the 
latter dying at the age of four years in 1813; Sarah Sophia, born February 14, 
1815, married Charles GILLETT, and died in Steuben county, Ind., March 16, 
1847; Emma M., born March 24, 1818; and Aaron Burton, born March 18, 1821, a 
prominent lawyer of Fargo, North Dakota.
     After his marriage to Emma M. LEVISEE, William FULLER continued farming in 
Townsend township.  His industry and patience were rewarded in time.  He 
acquired much land, and each of his five sons who grew to maturity were helped 
to a farm by their father.  William FULLER was a Democrat until 1856; but from 
that time to his death, which occurred January 7, 1884, he was a Republican.  
In religious faith he was a Universalist.  Two children by his first wife, 
David and John, grew to maturity.  David was born July 8, 1821, married, for 
his first wife, Mary Z. HIGLEY, and, for his second, Eliza J. PLUMB.  He died 
May 18, 1879.  John, born April 7, 1823, married Eliza MALLORY, and removed to 
Branch county, Mich.  By his second wife William FULLER had two children:  
William T., who was born April 10, 1832, married Mary J. VAN BUSKIRK, and 
resides at Townsend; and Cynthia M., born November 2, 1833, and died December 
22, 1853.  One child was born to his third wife, Jason E., who died in 
infancy.  Three children were born to William and Emma M. (LEVISEE) FULLER, as 
follows:  Taylor, James, and Albert.  James was born October 13, 1844, married 
Betsey RICHARDS, and lives in Townsend township; Albert, born June 22, 1846, 
died September 26, 1849.
     Taylor FULLER, the eldest of these three children, grew up on the farm in 
Townsend township, and attended the district schools.  He enlisted in August, 
1862, in Company K, One Hundred O. V. I., which was organized at Toledo.  The 
regiment was sent to Kentucky, and operated against the forces of Gen. Kirby 
Smith.  During the winter of 1862-63 it remained in the vicinity of Lexington, 
and in the fall of 1863 crossed the mountains to Knoxville, Tenn.  A detachment 
of 240 men, sent up to the Virginia State line to guard the railroad, was 
captured by the Rebels.  The regiment was engaged in nearly every battle of the 
Atlanta campaign, then returned to Tennessee, and met Hood at Columbia, 
Franklin and at Nashville, Mr. FULLER, then a sergeant, went with the command 
to North Carolina.  It was actively engaged at Wilmington and assisted in the 
capture of that city, then moved to Goldsboro and met Sherman's army.  The 
regiment was mustered out at Greensboro, N. C., June 20, 1865, and discharged 
at Cleveland, July 1, following.  Sergt. FULLER was a faithful soldier, and was 
with the regiment during the whole of its active and eventful service.  
Returning to his home, he again took up the vocations of peace.
     On December 3, 1867, he was married to Miss Lina E. STONE, who was born in 
Seneca county, Ohio, April 15, 1843.  Their only child, Dermont E., was born 
November 6, 1868, and was educated in the schools of Clyde and at the Ohio 
Wesleyan University, Delaware; he is now assistant cashier of the Peoples Bank 
at Clyde.  Taylor FULLER began housekeeping on a farm in Townsend township 
which he had previously purchased, but later settled on his present farm in 
York township.  Besides looking after his farming interests he has been one of 
the leading stock farmers at Clyde for ten years or more, and for a number of 
years he has been a prominent wool dealer also.  He was one of the founders of 
the Peoples Bank, which was organized in 1883 with a capital stock of $50,000, 
and which is one of the leading and prosperous financial institutions of the 
county.  He served as vice-president continuously until elected to his present 
responsible position of president of the bank.  In politics Mr. FULLER is a 
pronounced Republican.  He is a member of the G. A. R., and of the U. V. U.  No 
man in the township ranks higher as a public-spirited citizen, and as a capable 
business man.

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