The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-17
DEATH OF ISAAC FULLER.
Tor Years He Was One of New York
States Leading Editors.

States Leading Editors.
Isaac Fuller. the veteran editor, OF
Poughkeepsie, n. Y, died Saturday
morning at the age of Sc years. He
was u brother of Charles and George
Fuller, both deceased, who were promi-
/ ncnt in the early history of this city;
/ and he was an uncle of f.. p Kings
! bury.
! Mr. Fuller visited Scranton many
! times and was we'll known. His pub
lie career covered the interesting period
of the history of the United States, run.
! ming from the days of Andrew Jackson
| down to the present He was an inti-
! mate friend of William H. Seward,
! Thurlow Weed, Edwin y. Morgan, New
| fork's famous war governor, and 'Reu-
! ben Il. Fenton, also governor of the
! Empire state.
/ Between Mr.. Fuller and Mr.. Seward
| there always existed a warm friend
! ship. He considered Mr.. Seward the
/ grandest statesman of contemporary
! history, and when the latters ambition
| to become president was proclaimed he
| had no more enthusiastic supporter
than Mr.. Fuller, who was one of the
leading spirits of the big New York
delegation that went to Chicago for the
! purpose of booming that candidacy.
Fate decreed that the star of destiny
should shine upon Abraham Lincoln.
Mr.. Fuller was born February q, 1912,
at Bridgewater Susquehanna county,
whittier his parents had immigrated
short time before from Connecticut. He
| early displayed a literary turn of mind
and in 1880, at the age OF IS, became
| the editor of the Independent Volun-
! teer, strong anti-Jackson paper, pub
| lished at Montrose. Four years later
| he went to Honesdale, where he be-
! came associated with Mr.. Kingsbury,
father of +. p. and II. A. Kingsbury,
of this city, in the publication of the
| Wayne County Herald.
In the year 1887 he went to Seneca
Falls, ~ Y, where he became the edi-
tor of the Courier, which he conducted
with much signal ability until 1866. W hen
he gave up the editorship TO accept
position in the government printing
office at Washington, which he held
down to within few years, when he
was compelled to lay down his labors
through falling health. He could pass
for thirty years younger, being a Won
derfully well-preserved man. He never
used tobacco in any form or intoxicat-
| ing liquors.
His first presidential vote was cast in
| 1896 for William Henry Harrison, who
was defeated in that election, but be-
came president four years later. In
1871 he was appointed postmaster OF
Seneca Falls, which he held four years.
He was again appointed in 1861 by
| President Lincoln and was one of his
first appointees. He resigned it in 1869
to go to Washington. He attended the
first convention of the Republican party
in 1856, when General John c. Fremont
was nominated for the presidency; and
| he was present at both nominations of
| Lincoln. and at the nomination OF
Blaine and Harrison. In 1858 he was
elected clerk of Seneca county and was
the only Republican ever chosen to that
office. In 1868 and "a Mr.. Fuller was
secretary Of New York state Republi-
can committee. and he called to order
the convention that nominated Cover
nor Fenton in 1863. Roscoe Conkling
was chairman of that convention.
Mr.. Fuller watched the growth of
modern journalism with much salts
faction and expressed himself a few
years ago while on a visit to his
nephew. f.. =. Kingsbury, that the pro-
| gress seems almost beyond human be-
| lief