Essex

FULLER, Henry

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, pp 147-148

Henry FULLER, of Bloomfield [Essex County, Vermont], was born 26 August 1838 
in Maidstone [Essex County, Vermont], son of Henry and T. (BOWKER) FULLER. 
When two years old his father removed to Bloomfield, where the subject has 
since resided. His education was confined to such instruction as could be 
had in the high schools and in Derby Academy. Farming has been the steady 
occupation of Mr. FULLER, though he has given some attention to teaching. 
Having from his early youth a great desire to travel and see the world 
outside the narrow limits of his home surroundings, he was unable to indulge 
this longing until he had arrived at the years of middle life, but in 1892 he 
gratified his cherished wish and spent the greater part of a year in visiting 
every portion of his native land from the Atlantic to the Pacific, traveling 
more than eight thousand miles to effect his purpose. The grandfather of Mr. 
FULLER, with his brother [great uncle of the subject], came to Minehead, now 
Bloomfield [Essex County, Vermont], in or about 1800. He [the grandfather of 
the subject] raised a family of ten children, nine of whom lived to the age 
of eighty years.

Mr. FULLER has been a lifelong Democrat, though in his latter days he has had 
a tendency towards Prohibition. He has been constable, collector, selectman, 
and town clerk for thirteen years, and has held other minor offices. At the 
age of seventeen he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, and during his 
whole life has earnestly labored in the cause. Devoting himself to the 
welfare of the parish and Sabbath school, he has been steward for many years, 
and served on various church committees. On 31 May 1864 he [Henry FULLER] 
married Miss Nettie W. COLBY, of Whitefield [Coos County], New Hampshire, 
which union was blessed with two sons: Henry Clarence, who died 09 October 
1867; and Asa C., now a preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. 
FULLER [Nettie W. (COLBY) FULLER, died 15 January 1868. For his second wife 
Mr. [Henry] FULLER married Miss May L., daughter of Mary and Nathan M. 
JOHNSON, of Bloomfield. By her [May L.] he [Henry FULLER] he has had two 
children: Earle W. and Maude M.

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