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562 hurricane, and the vessel was driven on the shore at Fire Island in the early morning at four o'clock. The wreck was complete. A great wave swept the deck, and carried all before it. The boy was drowned in the arms of the steward while the latter was trying to reach the land, and the lifeless body was carried on the beach. Neither mother nor father was heard of more. Of Ossoli little is known. It is not strange that to most people he should be a name only, for he was married but a short time, he was not seen out of his native country, and there was known but slightly save to a small number of friends, while his inability to speak any language except his own naturally prevented his mingling with Americans. But he was a gentleman, sincere, true, and self-respecting. All we know of him is to his credit. He was sufficiently educated for his rank in society. That he was a devoted husband is certain, ready to share his wife's fortune whatever it might be, and in all respects thoughtful of her happiness, believing in her entirely. His future in this country would have been melancholy. He must have been dependent on the efforts of his wife, and those efforts, even though incessant and reasonably successful, might not have availed to support a family. It will be seen that her career naturally fell into three divisions. The first period lasted till her life in New York in 1844. The second included her experience there. The third embraced her activity in Rome. The first, which may be called the transcendental epoch, could not be repeated. It was extremely interesting, exciting, stimulating to the mind. She was under stimulating influences. Self-culture was then the key-note of her endeavor. The third could not be reproduced. That extraordinary episode, with its raptures of self-devotion, was as exceptional, in its way, as the first. The second epoch &mdash; that of literary production &mdash; was still open to her, enlarged and simplified. She was essentially a critic. She was not a reformer, and could not have been, had her means been ever so ample. She lived by her pen, and her livelihood must have been precarious &mdash; so much so that some of her admirers looked on the final catastrophe as a deliverance for her. What she might have become if she had lived, it is useless to conjecture. She possessed brilliant gifts of many kinds. She had a warm heart, but her natural talent was for literature. She wrote a great deal for magazines, various papers, a complete account of which may be found in Higginson's &ldquo;Life.&rdquo; Her collected works, including &ldquo;Summer on the Lakes&rdquo; (1843), &ldquo;Woman in the Nineteenth Century&rdquo; (1844), and &ldquo;Papers on Literature and Art&rdquo; (1846), were edited by her brother, Rev. Arthur B. Fuller (Boston, 1855). Her book on the Roman republic was lost with her. The life of Margaret Fuller has been written by Emerson, Clarke, and Channing, edited for the most part by William Henry Channing (1852). This is strongest on the transcendental side. There is also a memoir of her by Julia Ward Howe, in the &ldquo;Eminent Women&rdquo; series (Boston, 1883), and one by Thomas Wentworth Higginson in the &ldquo;American Men of Letters&rdquo; series (Boston, 1884). The last is the most complete, though somewhat warped by the author's idea that Margaret Fuller's career culminated in philanthropy. &mdash; Her brother, Richard Frederick, author, b. in Cambridge, Mass., 15 May, 1821; d. in Wayland, Mass., 30 May, 1869, was graduated at Harvard in 1844, and became a lawyer in Boston. Besides the life of his brother, mentioned below, he published &ldquo;Visions in Verse&rdquo; (Boston, 1864). &mdash; Another brother, Arthur Buckminster, clergyman, b. in

Cambridgeport, Mass., 10 Aug., 1822; d. in Fredericksburg, Va., 11 Dec., 1862, was fitted for college by his sister Margaret, and graduated at Harvard in 1843. He then studied theology at Cambridge divinity-school, and was for some years a teacher and missionary in Illinois. He was pastor of a Unitarian church in Manchester, N. H., in 1848-'53, of the new North church in Boston in 1853-'9, and of a church in Watertown, Mass., till 1 Aug., 1861, when he became chaplain of the 16th Massachusetts regiment. He was honorably discharged on 10 Dec., 1863, on account of failing health: but, being present at the battle of Fredericksburg on the following day, he volunteered to join a detachment in crossing the Rappahannock, and fell while attempting to drive the Confederate sharpshooters out of the city. His courage, enthusiasm, and sympathy for the men of his regiment had greatly endeared him to them. He edited several of his sister's works (1855), and published &ldquo;Sabbath-School Manual of Christian Doctrine and Institutions&rdquo; (Boston, 1850); &ldquo;Historical Discourse delivered in the New North Church, Boston, 1 Oct., 1854,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Liberty versus Romanism,&rdquo; two discourses (1859). His life was published by his brother, Richard F. Fuller (Boston, 1863). See also a sketch by T. W. Higginson in &ldquo;Harvard Memorial Biographies,&rdquo; vol. i.

FULLER, Thomas Brock, Canadian Anglican bishop, b. in Kingston, Canada, 16 July, 1810. He was educated at Hamilton, Canada, and at Cham- bly theological seminary, and in 1835 was ordained ' in the Anglican church at Toronto. After holding pastorates in Chatham, Thoi'old, and Toronto, where he was rector of St. George's church for fourteen years, he was appointed archdeacon of Toronto in 1867, and in 1875 became bishop of the newly created diocese of Niagara.

FULTON, John, clergyman, b. in Glasgow, Scotland, 2 April, 1834. He studied in the Chan- nel Islands and at Aberdeen, removed in 1853 to the United States, and took priest's orders in the Protestant Episcopal church at New Orleans in 1858. He has devoted much time to researches re- garding the canon law, and is considered one of the ablest canonists in his denomination. He has received the degree of D. I), and LL. D., and at present (1887) resides in St. Louis. His principal works are " Letters on Christian Unity " (1868) ; " Index Canonum," including those of the general and provincial councils in Greek and English (New York, 1872); "Laws of Marriage" (1883); and " Documentary History of the Protestant Episco- pal Church in the Confederate States."

FULTON, Justin Dewey, clergyman, b. in Earlville, N. Y., 1 March, 1828. He was graduated at the University of Rochester in 1851, spent one year at the Rochester theological seminary, and in 1853 became pastor of a Baptist church in St. Louis, Mo. In 1855 he removed to Sandusky, Ohio, and in 1859 to Albany, N. Y., where the" Tabernacle Baptist ciuirch was established under his ministry. In 1863 he was called to the Tremont Temple in Boston, where he labored for nine years. In 1878 he became a pastor in Brooklyn, N. Y., but resigned in 1887, and announced his intention of endeavoring to convert Roman Catholics to Protestantism. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by the University of Rochester in 1871. Dr. Fulton is a voluminous author. Among his works are "The Roman Catholic Element in American History" (1859); "Life of Timothy Gilbert" (1864); "Woman as God Made Her" (1867); "The Way Out" (1870); "Show Your Colors" (1881); and "Rome in America" (1884).