FULLER, Stephen G.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, p 169

Stephen G. FULLER, Fuller Hotel at Mondovi [Naples Township, Buffalo County, 
Wisconsin], was born 01 March 1832 in Vermont, the son of Lenard [Lenerd? 
Leonard?] and Sally [Sallie A.?] FULLER. His [Stephen's] father died 01 May 
1860 in Vermont, at the age of sixty-one years. His mother was born in 1806 
[seventy-three years of age in the 1880 census, therefore born about 1807, 
consistent with the year of birth given in the biography] and is still living 
with him. He [Stephen G. FULLER] came to Wisconsin in June 1861, to Buffalo 
County, and settled in the Town of Gilmanton and engaged in farming. In 1871 
he rented his farm and moved to the Village of Alma [Buffalo County, 
Wisconsin], where he built an hotel which was called the Fuller House. In 
1874 he moved to Minneapolis [Hennepin County], Minnesota, and kept a 
boarding house and restaurant for five years. He then returned to Alma and 
kept the Union House for a while, and then moved to Independence, Trempealeau 
County [east of and adjacent to Buffalo County]. In 1879 he moved to Mondovi 
into his present house.

[Bracketed inclusions in this paragraph are from the 1880 census of Mondovi, 
Buffalo County, Wisconsin, and approximate years of birth, calculated from 
census ages, are also added.] In 1854 in Vermont he [Stephen G. FULLER] was 
married to Miss Sarah E. WOODWARD, she being also a native of Vermont [age 
forty-four, born in Vermont about 1836, her parents also born in Vermont], by 
whom he has five children: (1) Ella E., now Mrs. E. L. AINSWORTH 
[enumerated in 1880 in Mondovi in a household with her husband (a separate 
household from that of Stephen G. FULLER): Everett M., age twenty-six, 
school teacher, born in Vermont about 1854, to parents also born in Vermont; 
and wife Ella, age twenty-four, born about 1856 in Vermont to Vermont-born 
parents]; (2) Ellsworth D. [single, age eighteen, born in Vermont about 
1862; he being enumerated, as are the remaining children mentioned, in the 
household of Stephen G. FULLER]; (3) Addie E. [single, age seventeen, born 
in Wisconsin about 1863]; (4) Bertha V. [age eleven, attends school, born in 
Wisconsin about 1869]; and (5) Frederick L. [age one month]. Mr. FULLER is 
a member of the Knights of Pythias, Minneapolis Lodge No. 1, and also the 
Ancient Order of United Workmen, Mondovi Lodge No. 23.

[Also enumerated with the Stephen G. FULLER family are four persons unrelated 
to him: Irwin ROWE, a single, thirty-year-old farmer born in Pennsylvania to 
parents also born there; Ira W. LYONS, a single fifty-two-year-old farmer 
born in Vermont to Vermont-born parents; Mary HANSON, an eighteen-year-old 
servant, born in Norway to parents also born there; John M. SAXE, a 
twenty-eight-year-old laborer, born in Pennsylvania to parents also born 
there; and Edward RAYMOND, a twenty-nine-year-old mail carrier, born in New 
York to parents born in Prussia. Stephen D. FULLER likely had no trouble 
getting his mail promptly and efficiently delivered! Bracketed material 
added by submitter, who is not researching these surnames, to support and 
clarify information given in the biography and to raise questions.]

Submitted by Cathy Kubly