Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-17
Insurance
No Jockeying at this Establishment

NIT. Fuller was member of the Broad way Congregational church a life direc- tor of the American Bible Society a men- Der of Columbia Commandery Knights Templars and treasurer of Franklin Chapter Somerset lodge.
 MT. Fuller was courtly and of lin1itless kindness He had little patience for pretense and show. Those whom he em- ployed he trusted without reserve He died in 1874 appointing Lewis A. Hyde of Norwich to act as trustee of his estate without bond He left his insurance bus mess to his eldest son, James Ebenezer Fuller who at the time of his fathers death was engaged in fire insurance in New York city in the home office of the Farragut Fire Insurance company of which company his father was an agent in Norwich.
 James Ebenezer Fuller son of Ebenezer Fuller and Harriet Louisa Bolles. was born in Norwich, Conn.,, Sept. 2, 1888 His beyhood days were passed in Nor wich He attended the Pettis Academy
 at the Landing, later entering the Wood
 stock Academy, a school for which he al- wasys retained affection. He retained af- i lection also for the Woodstock fishing pond to which he retired when the weath-
 CT was adjudged too stormy for him to
 cross from his dorfnitory to the class room
 l MT. Fuller uncle, Rev. Dr. Aaron A.
 Bolles became rector of the Church of the Advent; in Boston, and because of 1 family ties. Mir. Fuller entered a bank | ing house in Boston, where he was ern- pioyed at the time that Fort Sumter was fired upon. Mr. Fuller reported in Nor
 wich at once and went out April End
 as End lieutenant in the 2nd Regiment
 of Connecticut Volunteers, the 1st regi- ment having been recruited in Hartford. On the ay with his company to camp in New Haven he was taken sick as a re- suit of exposure. He was carried to the
 home of Colonel Russell, and was nurs- ed through an illness of many weeks by Mrs. Russell and her daughters whose patriotism would permit no paid nurse to tend an officer of their country. By
 the time that he was able to be up, his lcompany was already in the field In hi,
 fear that the war would be over before he had a chance to fire shot, he joined
 as poor soldier, Co E, of the 11tf
 Conn. Volunteers, which was passing
 through New Haven. The young fooI
 soldier attracted the attention of his su
 perior officers and he was withdrawn t<
 act as aide de camp to General Burnside ! General Kingsley, he was with Colore
 Stedman when he died; and when mus teredout at the close of the war was act
 ing as assistant Quartermaster of the or
 dinance department. He was active ser
 vice without break through the war. . After peace was declared, he entere. l the home office of the Fulton Fire Insur ance company of New York, and was witt l the Fulton until the Chicago fire. whel 5 the Fulton went out of business and h was transferredNte the home office of th ] Humboldt, by the president of the Hum boldt. Mir. Mulligans former president o the, Fulton. Upon the death of his fath CT Ebenezer Fuller, MT. Fuller took owe his fathers insurance and real estat 3 agency in Norwich Mr. Fuller was mar ried in 1s66 to Rebecca. Phillis Hope o : London, England.
 MT. Fuller inherited his fathers cour tesy; kindness and freedom from ore
 Ltense. Throughout his young manhood : he remembered with affection the ol i, Congregational hymnal and when he re 2 turned to make his home in Norwich, h
 united with the Congregational churcl : Mir. Fuller died in 1912, and his tw 3 daughters. Margaret Fuller and Char iotte Fuller. Eastman, carried on hi e business till Mrs. Eastman withdrew Jul a 6. 1921, Margaret Withdrew Jan 2.
 1922.