The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-01
IrnGE PrLLER SURPRISED.
sketch of III. Lifs-HOW lie Received the
News Of Ills Nomination.

spsirh Of Ills LIfs-HoW lie Received the
News Of Ills Nomination.
CucAco, April 3O.-The nomination
d Melville W. Fuller, Of Chicago, as
Chief Justice Of the United States is
regarded here with unbounded satisfac'
tion by the leading men of both parties
Mr., Fuller is in every respect fitted to
6II the high office to which he has been
dominated. Melville Weston Fuller was
Lorn in Augusta, Maine, on February
II IS33, Ills father was Frederick A.
Enllpr. his mother Catharine Martin,
Jsughtcr of Chief Justice Nathan Wes-
ton Melville was fitted for college in
Augusta and graduated at Bowdoin IN
the class Of 1858, his C!assmate being H.
/ phelps, our minister to England. Mr..
Fuller. after leaving college, began the
siudy Of the law at Bangor.
Alter attending lectures in the law
ilenartment OF Harvard University, he
%ernn the practice OF his profession in
ITmIst in 1856. While waiting for eli
cnts he acted us editor OF the Age and
won his spurs in journalism. Feeling
that his true field Of work was the law,
and realizing that his native city did not
otTord that scope for effort which he
stood in need OF, Mr.. Fuller came West
and selected Chicago. Here he did not
have 10 wait long for practice. His
ability was speedily recognized and
nroDcrly rewarded. For thirty years he
eni6yed lucrative practice and has won
distinction among the foremost at this
bar. In 1861 he was elected q member
Of the State constitutional convention.
In 1852. he was chosen to the Legisla-
mre, and although n Democrat, running
each time in strong Republican dis
trict he was victorious by large ma
iority. lie was delegate to the Demo
cratic National conventions OF 1854, 1877,
1874 and 1850. In 1860, he was selected
by the citizens to deliver the address OF
welcome to Stephen A. Douglass. In
1858 Mr.. Fuller married Calista y: Key
nolds and after her decease, Mary Ellen,
daughter Of the distinguished banker,
William L. Coolbaugh. He has eight
daughters.
In his practice in the Supreme Court
of the United States Mr.. Fuller has re-
peatedly come in contact, both as a col
league and us opponent, with Messrs;
Edmund, Thurman, Hoadly, lngersoil
and other admittedinoted lawyers, and
has never failed to hold his own against
the greatest OF them. He is familiar with
the decisions of that court and well in
formed on the history OF our country,
and especially on constitutional ques-
tons. Not content with the vast
amount Of reading and writing which OF
necessity results from the active prac-
tice Of his profession, Mr.. Fuller does
an imm,P ,Pnsc amount OF miscellaneous
realing aud considerable writing by
way of recre. .Stion. He is an omniverous
reader, rcsemb les Macauley in his liking
for good novel, as well as in the
swiftness with which he grasps the con-
tents Of book and the tenacity with
which his memory clfugS to it.
Mr.. Fuller was dining with some
friends at the IrOquois club, when iound
By an Associated Press reporter. lie
had no intimatiOn whatever OF the noml'
nation and was so overcome at the an
nOuncement that, for some moments, nc
could utter nothing more than an excia,
nation OF surprise. He requested that Ut
be not pressed for an extended inter
view, saying that he was in no condition
to talk on the subject as the nomlnauon
had come so unexpectedly. He, how
ever, stated that he would not decline
the nomination.