BIOGRAPHIES: William N. FULLER, Cumberland, Barron Co., WI ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Submitted by: Vic Gulickson 4 June 2004 ************************************************************************ William N. Fuller, practicing attorney of Cumberland, formerly third municipal judge of Barron County, formerly district attorney, was born in Star Prairie, St. Croix County, Wis., April 28, 1870, son of John F. and Lydia E. (Nicholson) Fuller. He attended the schools of his native town until twelve years of age and in 1882 was brought to Cumberland by his parents. Here he finished the graded studies, and in 1889 was graduated from the Cumberland High School. He then entered the law department of the University of Wisconsin, from which he was graduated in law in 1890. In that year, although still under twenty-one, he opened an office in Cumberland, and has since continued in active practice. Nov. 1, 1919, he entered into partnership with Frank L. Louison, and the firm is now known as Fuller & Louison. Mr. Fuller, as county attorney, made a most excellent record. For several years he was municipal attorney of Cumberland. He was also judge of the Cumberland city court. For seven years he was a valued member of the school board. Judge Fuller was married in Leon, Monroe County, Wis., in 1892, to Grace Pinkerton, daughter of Adam and Nancy Pinkerton. Adam Pinkerton was a man of considerable distinction. During the Civil War he was major of the Seventy-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and followed the fortunes of that heroic regiment throughout the War, including the March to the Sea. He was for many years a clergyman of the Congregational faith. He and his wife are both dead. Judge and Mrs. Fuller have two children, Donald P. and Richard C. Donald P. is a private in the regular army. During the World War he was with the Headquarters Company, 121st Field Artillery, 32nd Division. He served in France eighteen months and was under fire at Chateau Thierry, Rougemont, the Meuse-Argonne offensive, and in several other sectors. Richard C. is in the Navy, and is stationed at the Government Navy Yard, Puget Sound, Wash. He was in France with Battery B, Seventy-second Coast Artillery, and was stationed at Nazairre, St. Leonard, Panilac and other places. Mrs. Fuller died April 2O, l920. She was a good wife and mother, a loyal friend, and a hospitable neighbor, and her death is sincerely mourned. --Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 1009-1010. © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm