The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-03-30
Capt. Fuller Dead.

A telegram was received yester-
day, announcing the death, at the
agency, of Major Thomas P. Fuller.
agent at the Blackfeet reservation.
Heart disease was the cause Of
death, which was very sudden.
| Mrs. Fuller has been in this CITY.
visiting her sister, Mrs. S. H.
Lemon, will leave for the agency
this morning. The daughter of
the deceased is in Chicago.
Captain Fuller was one of the
most widely known men in the
state and no one in public life was
more highly esteemed. He sue
cceded Major George B. McLaugh>
lin as Indian agent and had been
very successful.
Thomas P. Fuller was born at
Schenectady, N. Y, October 23,
1888, being son of William and
| Sarah Peck Fuller. He was ed.
ucated in the schools of Columbia
and Saratoga counties, in his
native state. In 1853 he went to
st, Paul and engaged in bookkeep-
ing for his father, swho at that time
had several stories in the western
territories, aud remained at St.
Paul, MINI, until April, 1860,
when be accompanied his father to
the Indian territory, and locating
a trading post in the Cherokee
nation, remained there until the
fall of 1860. He went east late in.
that year and was in Fairfax
county, Virginia, when the civil
war began. Soon after, going to
New York, he enlisted IN Company
D of the Ninety third New York
volunteers and was prom oted TO a
firstlieutenancy, then.to be captain,
and later was made quartermaster
of the Second brigade of the Third
division of the Second army corps.
He was wounded in the neck on
the peninsular frontier, near
| Waterfowl. He was mustered out
July II, 1865, and soon vert to
St PAU, in the employ of James J .
Hill, then president of the st Paul,
Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway
Co. He remained there until the
spring of 1866, when he came to
Montana with wagon train be-
longing to Capt. J. S. Fisk, now Of
Helena. Soon after his arrival 10
Helena, he engaged in the hotel
business, for short time in part
nership with Major Cullen. Quit
ting the hotel business, he ac-
cepted position with Wells, Fargo
q Co as agent at Virginia City
and Helena. In October, 1870,
President Grant, of whom he was
a personal friend, appointed him
assistant internal revenue collector
for the counties of Deer Lodga and
Missoula, then embracing pract'c aI
ly all of the west part of The terri~
tory. From 1870 to 1883 he also
served as agent for the Diamond
r, Freighting Co. at Deer Lodge
and Missoula, aud was internal
revenue collector for Deer Lodge
and Missoula counties until June |,
1873. On the latter date he was
appointed collector of the consoli-
dated district of Montana, Idaho
and Utah. He also acted as dis
bursting agent for the United
States assay Office at Helena dur
ing its construction. He was re-
moved from Office by President
Cleveland. April 8, 1888, he was
appointed adjutant general, rank
ing as brigadier general, of the
national guard of Montana. In
1889 he was elected mayor of
Helena, and was in the hardware
business there until appointed
agent for the Blackfeet Indians,
about year ago,
March Is, 1851, Mr.. Fuller was
married to Miss Lillian Lippincott
of Augusta, to whom was born
two children, Florence and Lillian
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