BIOGRAPHIES

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HISTORY of CITY OF TOLEDO and LUCAS COUNTY, OHIO
Illustrated
Clark Waggoner, Editor
Publ. New York & Toledo:
Munsell & Company, Publishers
1888
 

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Alonzo Fairchild	ALONZO FAIRCHILD Source: City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio - Illustrated - Clark Waggoner, Editor - Publ. New York & Toledo: Munsell & Company, Publishers 1888 - Page 873
Elias Fassett	ELIAS FASSETT Source: City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio - Illustrated - Clark Waggoner, Editor - Publ. New York & Toledo: Munsell & Company, Publishers 1888 - Page 687
	JOHN W. FULLER, Merchant and Brevet Major General United States Volunteers, was born July, 1827, in Cambridge, England, and came to the United States with his father's family in 1833.  His father was a Baptist Clergyman and a graduate of Bristol College, England.  He personally superintended the education of his son, and to him the latter is largely indebted for whatever measure of success has been attained in his subsequent life.  He passed his years of boyhood and earlier manhood at Utica, New York, where he came to be known as one of the leading merchants of the City.  His establishment being destroyed by fire in 1858, he closed his business there and removed to Toledo.  Here he engaged in Book Trade, including both the sale and publication of Books, the establishment becoming one of the foremost in that branch of business.  He was thus engaged, when, in April, 1861, the War of the Rebellion began.  Being thoroughly in sympathy with the cause of the Union, and having to some extent cultivated a taste for the military profession, he was not long in identifying himself actively with the side of loyalty.  His first service in the Union Army was in West Virginia, where for a short time he was a member of the Staff of Brigadier General Charles W. Hill, of Ohio.      Under appointment of Governor Tod he took command of the Twenty-Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  That command served under Pope in Missouri, and joined General Hunter at Springfield, Missouri, about the 1st of November.  In February, 1862, it formed part of the force under General Pope which drove the Rebel troops out of New Madrid, and in April following crossed the Mississippi and captured Island Number Ten, taking several thousand prisoners.  It continued with General Pope until after the evacuation of Corinth by General Beauregard.  In July, 1862, Colonel Fuller was placed in command of the "Ohio Brigade," which soon came to be classed with the most famous in the Western Army.  This Brigade was constituted of the Twenty Seventh; the Forty-Third, Colonel Wager Swayne; the Thirty-Ninth, Colonel E. F. Noyes; and the Sixty-Third Ohio, Colonel John W. Sprague.  At Iuka, this Brigade came to the fight only to see its close; but at the succeeding engagement at Corinth, it took so conspicuous and effective a part, that Colonel Fuller was specially commended by both General Stanly and General Rosecrans and for such service was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General.  In December, 1862, his command fought the rebel force under Forrest at Parker's Cross-Roads, Tennessee, driving him across the Tennessee River and captured seven pieces of artillery and 360 prisoners.  In March, 1864, General Fuller crossed the Tennessee by night, and at daylight captured Decatur, Alabama, which soon was strongly fortified.  In the Atlanta campaign his Brigade was conspicuous at Resaca, at Dallas and at Kenesaw Mountain.  Early in July, 1864, General Fuller was assigned to the command of the Fourth Division, Sixteenth Army Corps, his command taking an important part in the battle at Atlanta, July 22d.  In recognition of special service by him on that occasion, he was Major General by Brevet.  He marched with Sherman "to the Sea," and then from Savannah to Raleigh, North Carolina, where Johnston surrendered his command and the hostilities of the war ended.  It is entirely safe to state, that the recognition and promotion of no Soldier from Ohio were more wholly due to merit of service in the field, than were those extended to General Fuller; while few commanded equal honors.  His record is brilliant throughout, and it stands without occasion for excuse or apology, and wholly on its own merits.  Upon honorable discharge from military service, he returned to his home at Toledo, at once resuming mercantile life, becoming the senior partner of the firm of Fuller, Childs & Company, one of the largest wholesale Boot and Shoe houses in the North west, which relation he held until his retirement from business, in 1888.  He was appointed by President Grant Collector of Customs for the Miami (Toledo) District, in 1874, and re-appointed by President Hayes in 1878, serving for two terms of four years each.  Politically, General Fuller is a Republican.  In 1853, he was married with Miss Anna B. Rathbun, of Utica, New York.  Their children consist of three sons - Edward C. of Columbus; and Rathbun and Frederick C., of Toledo; and three daughters - Mrs. Florence, wife of Thomas A. Taylor; and Misses Jennie and Irene, of Toledo. Source: City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio - Illustrated - Clark Waggoner, Editor - Publ. New York & Toledo: Munsell & Company, Publishers 1888 - Page 161