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 2 3 S FULLER. FULLER. church in Medway, and clerk of the same body. He has also served his town in many of the minor offices and associations, and lias been an active worker in all the move- ments that have aimed at its growth and prosperity. FULLER, HENRY WELD, the second son of Hcmy VV. and Esther (Gould) Ful- ler, was born in Augusta, Kennebec county, Maine, January [6, [8io, and died in Bos- ton, August 14, 1889. His father was a leading lawyer and land-owner of thai place, and for many years judge of pro- bate for that county. His mother was a sister of Hannah 1''. Gould, the poetess, and of Mrs. Rapallo, the mother of the late Judge Rapallo, of the New York Court of appeals. She was a daughter of the old revolutionary soldier, Captain ben- jamin Gould, a personal friend of General Washington and General Lincoln. Mr. Fuller was the mule of the present Chief Justice of the Tinted States. His own father was a lineal descendant of tin- late Rev. Habijah Weld, described by Dr. Dwight in his book of travels in New England. Mr. Fuller, when about ten years of age, attended the Kennebunk Academy, and was there a school-mate of Hon. Hugh McCulloch, late treasurer of the United States. Afterwards lie was a private pupil of Dr. Enoch S. Tappan of Augusta. At the age of fourteen he entered Bowdoin College and graduated in iS2,s — his com- mencement part being the salutatory ora- tion. Three years later he received the degree of A. M., and in 1835 he delivered the annual oration of the Athenian Society, at commencement. During a part of his college life, Henry W. Longfellow, Nathan- iel Hawthorne, Dr. Kphraim l'eabody, S. S. Prentiss, John 1'. Hale, and others since distinguished, were among the collegians. After leaving school he began reading law with Ins father, and then attended the law school at Cambridge, under Judge Story ami Professor Ashmun, whose warm friendship and favor he enjoyed while they lived. Soon after leaving Cambridge he went to Florida, by advice of Ins physician, and spent several months in that locality -nat ly to Ills benefit. On his return to Augusta he was admitted to the Kennebec bar and became a partner with his father. This relation continued for ten years and until his father's death. In the fall of 1841 he removed to Boston and formed a law partnership with Elias Hasket Derby, which continued for thir- teen years, during which time Derby & Fuller were engaged in many important cases, especially as counsel for various railroad corporations. Subsequently he was appointed clerk of the circuit court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts, and for eleven years filled the place most satis factorily. Then, resigning that office, he devoted himself to other lines of activity, and acted as treasurer and trustee of sev- eral corporations and estates. Being always fond of horticulture and rural scenery, he converted a farm which he owned in Everett, a few miles from the city of Boston, into the beautiful cemetery of "Woodlawn," which for more than five and thirty years was to him a constant object of interest and care, and which he managed as its treasurer and principal designer. Other corporations and associations also shared Ins interest and influence. He was long an active member of the Massachu- setts Horticultural Society and was a vice- president thereof, and one of its executive committee. lb- was also a member of I lie American Association lor the Advani e- ment of Science, and of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, ami was greatly interested in the Society of Arts, and for a long lime was chairman of its executive committee, having been one of the projectors and a charter member of the Institute of Technology, and one of the original trustees of that corporation. His name was also placed by Griswold among the poets of Maine. He married, November 10, 1835, Mary Storer, daughter of Nathaniel Goddard, a prominent Last India merchant of Bos- ton; her mother, Lucretia Dana, being an adopted daughter of Colonel May, of the old " Boston tea-party," as reputed. Of this union were live children, tun sons and three daughters, of whom the daugh- ters only are now living: Mary Goddard Fuller, Mrs. Henrietta Goddard Dorr, and Caroline Welti Fuller. The oldest son. Nathaniel Goddard fuller, and his wife and five children — passengers on board the ship "Radiant," in 1X76 — were all lost in a.cyc lone. The second son, Henry eld Fuller, graduated at 1 [arvard < lollege in (859, and died in 1X63, after a long ill- ness caused by a fall. Mr. Fuller, during the course of the late war, was an active Union man. He de- voted time, money and energy to tin- raising of volunteers, and for months con- tinued to address the people, particularly