Allen C. Fuller
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{{redirect|Allen Fuller|the 50th Governor of Massachusetts|Alvan T. Fuller}}
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Adjutant General Allen Curtis Fuller (September 24, 1822 – December 6, 1901) was the adjutant general of Illinois from November 11, 1861, to January 1, 1865, during the American Civil War.
Biography
Allen C. Fuller was born in Farmington, Connecticut, in 1822. He studied in Towanda, Pennsylvania, and under James Rood Doolittle in Warsaw, New York.{{cite book|last=Sieracki|first=Bernard H.|title=Order and opportunity: The development of the Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commission|year=2008|publisher=University of Illinois at Chicago|isbn=978-1-109-00114-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kKntqiGv57cC&pg=PA131 |page=131}} He became a lawyer and lived in Belvidere, Illinois, from 1846{{cite book|last=Eddy|first=Thomas Mears|title=The Patriotism of Illinois|year=1865|pages=[https://archive.org/details/patriotismofillinois00eddyrich/page/604 604]–606|url=https://archive.org/details/patriotismofillinois00eddyrich }} until his death at his home there in 1901.{{cite news|title=General Allen C. Fuller Dead |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3525340/allen_c_fuller_18221901/|newspaper=Alton Evening Telegraph|date=December 9, 1901|page=1|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = October 31, 2015 }} {{Open access}} His daughter, Ida Candace Fuller Hovey, was born July 6, 1859, and married Theron Adelbert Hovey on July 6, 1878. She died of consumption (now more commonly called tuberculosis) at the age of 24 in Bayfield, Wisconsin, on August 22, 1883, after battling the sickness for several months. General Fuller then donated $5,000 to the city of Belvidere in Illinois to build a public library in her honor. To this day it's still open and standing.{{Cite web|title=Home {{!}} Ida Public Library|url=https://idapubliclibrary.org/|access-date=2021-11-27|language=en-US}}
From before the war until July 1862, he was a judge of the Illinois Circuit Courts. He served as Adjutant General of Illinois from 1862 until 1865. After the war, he was elected as the representative of Boone County in the Illinois House of Representatives. He became Speaker of the House, and afterwards served two terms in the Illinois Senate from 1867 until 1872.{{cite news|title=Obituary Notes|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1901/12/07/102639585.pdf|accessdate=2023-03-29|newspaper=The New York Times|date=7 December 1901 |page=9}}{{cite book|title=Duty, honor, and country: the Civil War experiences of Captain William P. Black, thirty-seventh Illinois infantry|year=2006|publisher=Press of the Camp Pope Bookshop|isbn=978-1-929919-10-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3YtDJquSH1AC&pg=PA190 |editor=Michael E. Banasik|accessdate=22 November 2011|page=190}}Historic Encyclopedia of Illinois, Newton Bateman, Paul Selby, Josiah Seymour Currie; Munsell Publishing Company: 1921, Biographical Sketch of Allen C. Fuller, pp. 177–178
In 1890, he built a Queen Anne style summer house near Lake Superior in Bayfield, Wisconsin, in search of relief for his asthma or hay fever. The house is now known as the "Old Rittenhouse Inn".{{cite news|last=Winckler|first=Suzanne|title=Simpler Views From Islands Off Wisconsin|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/24/travel/simpler-views-from-islands-off-wisconsin.html?pagewanted=5&src=pm|accessdate=2023-03-29|newspaper=The New York Times|date=24 July 1988|page=5}}{{cite book|last=Beattie Bogue|first=Margaret|title=Around the shores of Lake Superior: a guide to historic sites|year=2007|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-22174-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mlo0IgrX_VIC&pg=PA337 |accessdate=22 November 2011|page=337}}
Legacy
References
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External links
- [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fuller.html#347.35.28 Allen C. Fuller entry] at The Political Graveyard
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Category:Adjutants General of Illinois
Category:Speakers of the Illinois House of Representatives
Category:Illinois state senators
Category:Illinois state court judges
Category:People from Farmington, Connecticut
Category:People from Towanda, Pennsylvania
Category:People from Warsaw, New York
Category:People from Belvidere, Illinois
Category:People from Bayfield, Wisconsin
Category:People of Illinois in the American Civil War
Category:19th-century Illinois state court judges
Category:19th-century members of the Illinois General Assembly
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