Commemorative biographical record of the counties of Brown, Kewaunee and Door, Wisconsin, and containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families

HH. FULLER, of Forestville,
Door county, is numbered among
Wisconsin's native sons, his birth
having occurred inYorkville town-
ship, Racine county, in 1852. He comes
of an old New England family, his grand-
parents, Samuel and Chloe (Walker)
Fuller, ha\-ing been natives of Connecti-
cut, whence thev removed about 18 14 to
New York. They later settled in Jeffer-
son county, that State, where Mr. Fuller
spent his remaining days, his death oc-
curring in 1843: his widow afterward
came to Wisconsin, where she died in
1847. Her father. Nelson Walker, located
in Racine, Wis., in 1843, and there pub-
lished a paper until his removal to Wau-
kegan, 111., whence he went to Chicago,
where he edited a paper; he died at Stur-
geon Bay, Wis., about the year 1883.

Elijah S. Fuller, father of our sub-
ject, was born in Chenango county, N. Y. ,
in 18 1 5, liut was reared, educated and
taught the cooper's trade in JefTerson
county, N. Y. He married Betsy C.
Clarke, a native of Jefferson county, and
with family emigrated, in 1 844. to Racine
county. Wis. , where he improved a farm,
making his home thereon until 1855. In
that year he went to Sturgeon Bay, Wis.,
where he engaged in the lumber business
for five years, and ran the first ferry across
the bay. For three years he was owner
of a ferry, and then turned his attention
to fishing and burning lime, which pur-
suits he followed until 1892, when he
came to I'orest\ille, where he died Janu-
ary 8, 1895. In their family were eight
children, of whom Byron, the eldest, died
in childhood; Amelia became the wife of
Abel Whittaker, and died in 1885, her
husband dying in Bay View, Wis., in
1 89 1 (their children were Olive, Arthur
and Otis); Cornelia first married Sandy
Templeton, by whom she had five chil-
dren, three of whom are yet living —
Carrie, wife of John Jewett, of Menomo-
nce; Allen and Sandy; (for her second
husband Cornelia wedded Jake Hermann,
and four of their children are living —
Willie, Nellie, Henry and Gertie; the
mother died in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., in
1887); Emma, the ne.xt in the family, died
in 1872; H. H. is the fifth in order of
birth; William died in childhood; Inez is
the wife of E. W. Brewster, of Bay
View, and they have three children,
Nellie, Ray and Edna; Louis died in
Neenah, Wis., in September, 1893, at
the age of twenty-nine years, and his
widow now resides in Sheboygan.

H. H. Fuller, our subject, was reared
in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. , and received the
educational privileges afforded in its
public schools. He began farming near
Bay View, and later had charge of the
business of the Washington Ice Co., for
five and a half years, during which time
he established an agricuhural implement
store in Baj' View, which he yet carries
on, doing a good business along that line.
In 1 891 he embarked in the hotel and
saloon business in Forestville, but retired
from the same in 1893. In 1880 he
was united in marriage, in Bay View,
with Miss Sarah Noble, who was reared
in Manitowoc county, and was a daughter
of William and Susan Noble, natives of
St. Lawrence county, N. Y. , who located
in Manitowoc county in an earl}' day.
Mrs. Fuller died in Bay View in 1885,
and in 1887 Mr. Fuller wedded, in Manito-
woc county, Ella Andrews, a native of
Wisconsin. Socially our subject is a
member of the Ro3al Arcanum Lodge of
Sturgeon Bay, and in politics he is a
Republican.