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Clinton Fuller, son of Ambrose and Hannah (Munson) Fuller, was born in Luzerne county, Pa., October 3, 1820. His earlier years were those common to boys in the Wyoming Valley during the first part of the century. In 1839 he came here with his parents and assisted them in building up their home. In 1853 he purchased 160 acres on section 29, stocked and improved it and in 1855 added eighty acres to the original purchase. Here he was engaged up to 1865, when he established the Fuller store at Elmira, and this large business he has carried on in connection with his farm down to this time. In 1858 he married Miss Eliza, daughter of Isaac and Ann (Wicks) Harris, natives of Dutchess county, N. Y. To them one child was born, who died in infancy. The mother died January 25, 1882. Mr. Fuller cast his first vote for Henry Clay, and when the Republican party was formed he was among its first adherents, and is today one of the great party’s most faithful members. In 1852 he was elected sheriff of Stark county. In 1865 he was appointed postmaster at Elmira, holding the office down to the present time. In township and school matters he has been trusted with several official positions. During the troublous days of 1861-5 he was a member of the Union League, and other organizations, but today only claims membership with the Odd Fellows. A reference to the history of the township points out the several parts he has taken here; so also does the general history contain references to his dealings with the county. Walter Munson Fuller, son of Ambrose and Hannah (Munson) Fuller, was born in Pennsylvania, September 20, 1822. His father moved to Pennsylvania with parents in his youth, worked on the homestead farm, there learned the millwright’s trade, married Miss Munson, and in 1839 came to this county, settling on lands which he purchased on section 20, Elmira township. Walter M. received a liberal and practical education. On January 1, 1849, he married Miss Chloe M., a daughter of James and Diana Rowe, natives of Maine. Her father died in 1827; her mother married again, and with her Mrs. Fuller came here in 1839. (In 1854 her mother and step-father moved to Iowa, where she died in 1859.) They are the parents of four children: James A., deceased; William W., head of a family in this township; Augusta, unmarried, and Luella May, married and residing here. After Mr. Fuller’s marriage he purchased the interests of his father’s heirs in the homestead farm of 110 acres, to which he has since added 190 acres of farm land and 50 acres of timber lands, all in this township. Mr. Fuller has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for over thirty years, his wife and daughters being also members. He has been township school treasurer for thirty-four years, justice of the peace for ten years, and town clerk thirty years. To learn of the part he has taken in building up the social and industrial interests of Elmira, the reader is referred to the chapter on the history of that township. William Winfield Fuller, son of Walter and Chloe (Rowe) Fuller, was born in Elmira township, Stark county, Ill., July 16, 1852. His father was a Pennsylvanian, and mother a native of Maine, as related in other pages. William W. passed his earlier years on the farm or |
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