The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-04-06
Colonel Fuller for Governor.

Colonel Lew X. RULER OF Brattle
boro, who has been favorably men
toned for the governorship of Yer
mont this year by prominent men in all
parts of the state, and whose friends
will give him cordial support for the
nomination at the republican state con-
vention, is a native of Westmoreland,
n. H., where he was born in 1871. In
1916 his parents removed to Windham
county, and at the age of thirteen the
boy set out to make his own way in the
world, coming to Brattleboro, where
he worked at the printers trade, at
tended the high school, and learned tele
graphy. He subsequently went to
Boston, where he served an appren-
ticeship in the machinist's trade, acting
at the same time as evening operator
at the Merchants Exchange. He there
formed habits of careful study and OBJ
has maintained through life, and his
library in this respect is very large and
complete. In 1860 Colonel Fuller first
became connected with the Estey Or
gan Company, as engineer and ma
chinist, and in 1866 became a member
of the firm. Ever since that time his
energies have been faithfully devoted
to the interests of the concern, and he
has been an important factor in build
ing up the business where it stands to-
day-the leading industry of its kind in
the world.
His private business interests, how
ever, have not prevented him from par
ticipating actively in public affairs,
both local and otherwise. He has held
important town and village offices, is a
trustee of the Brattleboro Savings
Bank and of the Free Library, and has
done much for the promotion of Brat
tlebOrO interests in many ways. His
interest in educational matters is well
known, his most important work in this
direction being in connection with the
Vermont Academy at Saxton's River,
to which his gifts have been liberal in
time and money. Under Colonel Full
ler's lead, as president of the board of
trustees. that school holds high rank
among the institutions of its kind in
New England. His connection with
the Fuller Battery, of which he was the
organizer, has given him wide acquant-
ance in military circles. He has shown
great energy in promoting the interests
of the battery, and it is conceded to be
one of the leading military organiza.
tons of its class in the country.
In his personal character Colonel
Fuller is above reproach, and he is SO
known and esteemed by all his Brattle.
boro townsfolk. Still more than this
he is man of high aims, of generous
impulses, aiding every good enterprise
with liberality, and exerting an active
influence for the moral, educational
and religious advancement of the com
munity. He is a man of tireless en-.
ergy and perseverance, and it is one Of
his strongest characteristics that he ac
quaints himself thoroughly with every
subject to which he is called to give his
attention.
Colonel Fuller's friends consider that
one of the best qualifications for the
gubernatoral nomination lies in the
fact that he is not only man of excel
lent ability, but that he is a progressive
and growing man, anxious to be well
informed on all current topics, and t(
acquit himself creditably of every duty
required of him. In every position
public or private, which he has eve
filled, he has manifested this quality
and shown himself equal to all the de
mands made upon him. That he would
prove himself thus well-equipped, {
man of broad ideas, and capable both t
organize and to lead and direct, should
he be elected this year to fill the chair o
the Vermont governorship, is fac
well assured in advance. No man il
Vermont is more thoroughly identified
with the industrial interests of the state
or more in sympathy with her people
No man could do more toward thu
proper representation of Vermont's re
sources at the great Worlds Fair il
Chicago, and none would command TO
the state greater respect and confidence
1 both at home and abroad.
, 1t is on these grounds, as already in
timated, that Colonel Fuller's friend
will give him strong and united supper
I for the gubernatorial nomination at tn
: convention in June.-Brattleboro Pho
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