, 1879-06-24

3UDoA HRNRf FULLER,
ono Of Tho oldest residents OF Chicago, md for
many years one Of It's most active and progress
tvc businessmen, died at his home, No. O65
Indiana aycnuo. ut balt.past Z o'clock
Sunday morning. 1to was attacked with pueu-
inon!a last winter, and for q long tImo was not
expected to live. his doctor having given up all
1Ioro Of h!s Iccoyory. But io fought tho iisenso
with that !ndomitable cuerEy nnh pertiuacItY
which bad marked hin, during his lie, and sue
cec,lod IN beating It OF for tho time. Though
l'o seemed TO have recovered hts strength TO
considerable extent. and was able to drive out
~ close carriage, yet he vaa uot ablc to recover
us strength fully, mud every now uii1 t!cn wss
a. Sy 'oKE K sossSn ss 5G% Ts x b.
u being necessary to rub him for somn tIme 10
order to restore tho circulation. lie had ono
OF t'lcse attacks, Of unusual severity, Sunday,
Judge Fuller was born in 1903 tu Northan,p-
ton, Mass. Ho lett TINT place about the klme
lc hccatno OF age, aud went to Wyoming, N. Y,
wl!ero he started In tho tanning and currIcr
he removed to Albion, n. T., and started III liz
edry-goods business ln 1880 be came with
tho lakcs In The Old steamer Bunker Hill. In
TINT went over to ss. Joseph, Mich. At TINT
tmo It was proposed 10 make st. Joo the tcrml.
nus of thu Michigan Central Hallway, and ita
residents had fond hopes that that place was to
stayed there long enough to be elected County
sst hs siils,-6us ''s a'.eSarssd s ssi' tes ha
sSss or 1sr, & .o 's s qss' ste II " va; c.,es.g eng
!n 1870 and went Into thu contracting business.
llo built tho frat section Of tho Illinois Central
and llock lslana Railroads out of this city, and
4 taa ctr ilo null Frank Sherman. ono Of
Chicagoa ex-Mayo!s, wcfo contractors for lay.
Ing the rostesn end OF ths Michigan Southern.
Whom tho tirst stEect,rallroad charter was
David A. Gage "sru among tho cor
South Side limo for several years,
and wa. also Interested ~ tlle VAST sIdo eorpo-
Chlcngo ts. conceFned,, tue. practices of laying
track on sundays. 1'he right Of waY had 6ecn
ohta!ned TO lay track pn lialsted street, from
we great ob!ectqa d, ,ho part q ~ property-
holders. Il Was known that they intended 10
cet out an Injunction; and 20. ono Sunday III The
fall OF lsGa Fuller turned out with
tax as' ss tsss se .a ssets sRsy fss b.d
hinder hl,,. Not yory long before tho ilrs he
figured .n tue role of manager Of tllu Mussun,.
departure held y mortgage upon tho goods and
ehattels In tlis Museum. After Frank Alken's
failure to make success of The thing, Fuller
va va: compelled to fors,ose, and ran things hln'.
scff-thessfe ~ well rs muscum-up to tho |
time Of Tho dro ul,eu the wbolc thing vanished |
tn smoke. lis was also actiycly interested |
In insurance matters, having been President |
OF thu Kn!ckerbocker Fire Insurance Company, !
IN which nost Of Ills property was insured at tho /
slme OF lhe frc.
lle was twice married. Ills secaud wlfo IL |
still living, Us are bis three children.-two hy |
tho 1rst vile, Mr. Henry Fuller and Mira. Mary |
Blake, md QUO by the second, hirs. Il. ", Nc |
Cellnn.
For sono time prior to tho Nro Judge Full,r
hal owned the lots near tie Intersection Of /
River street and Michigan avenue. There
old buildings uu6t for any ule, and which wera |
OF interest simply because they hsd been used |
- ollcers' quattcrs at the time when Fort I
p4arho5n WAS still Earzso1sl hy United States |