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 240 FULLER. GALLISON. Mr. Fuller is trustee of the Framingham Town Library, and of the Edgell Grove Cemetery ; treasurer of the Framingham Electric Company, and director of the Framingham Union Street Railway. He is on the board of management of the Framingham Home for Aged Men and Women, and also one of the deacons of the Edwards Congregational church. His residence is in Saxonville. Mr. Fuller represented his district in the House of Representatives in 1881, serving upon the committee on mercantile affairs. FULLER, ROBERT OLIVER, son of Oliver and Sarah (Richardson) Fuller, was born in Cambridge, Middlesex county, Sep- tember 12, 1829. He was educated in the public schools. He began his commercial career in the iron business in 1855, under the firm name of Gay, Manson & Co., changed in 1857 to Robert O. Fuller, then Fuller & Dana in [860, and in 1866 to Fuller, Dana & Fit/., wlmh is the present title of this large and successful house. Mr. Fuller's varied attainments have constantly been called upon by those de- sirous of obtaining the active co-operation of a man of character and social standing, and the few positions of public honor and trust he has consented to fill could be in- creased many-fold were not his time and energies occupied with the details of his private business. Mr. Fuller is a trustee of Worcester Academy, Colby University, ami Newton Theological Institution. He was one of the founders of the Boston Baptist Social Union, and its president in 1X74 ; president of the Boston Baptist Bethel ; lias been president of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, and a member of the executive committee of the American Bap- tist Missionary Union, lie was a member of the Cambridge common council in 1S61- '62, but has uniformly declined all other city offices. He was a member of the House of Repre- sentatives, 1871 ; in 1872-'; 5 a member of the state Senate, and in 1889 a member of the executive council of Governor Ames, from Cambridge, where he now resides. Mr. Fuller was married in Cavendish, Vt., May 31, 1855, to Sarah P., daughter of Joseph and Emma (Baldwin) Barker. Of this union were seven children : Mary F., Robert ., Alfred ('., Grace, Annie, Charles Sumner and Helen Fuller. GALLAGHER, William, son of Wil- liam and Emily (Collins) Gallagher, was born in Boston, June 6, 1X49. lie received his early educational train- ing in the Hawes and Bigelow grammar schools and the public Latin school. Having prepared for college, he entered Harvard in 1865 and was graduated in the class of 1S69. He subsequently pursued his studies in the Chicago Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1874. 1 le was engaged in teaching in Philadel- phia from [869 to '71 ; was tailed to preach in Illinois in 1X74, where he remained until 1877 ; was master in the Boston Latin school, 1X77 to '85; master in the girls' Latin school, Boston, [885 to 'So, and was then elected principal of Williston Sem- inary, Easthampton, where he still remains. He received the degree of Ph. 1). from Amherst in 1889. Mr. Gallagher was married in Chicago. 111., October 21, 1874, to Frances Harriet, daughter of Carleton Graves and Harriet (Fettibone) McCulloch. Of this union arc five children : Oscar Charles. Label ( lade- ton, Agnes Ella, William Withington, and Rollin McCulloch Gallagher. GALLISON, Jefferson Cushing, son of John M. and Sarah A. Gallison, was born in Sebec, Piscataquis county, Maine, August 8, 1 84 1. His education was received in the com- mon schools of his native place, Wood- stock high school, and Oxford Normal Institute. He was three years private pupil of Dr. J. H. Kimball, late surgeon of the 14th regiment Maine volunteers, Bridg- ton, Maine. He attended lectures a por T tion of two terms at Harvard medical school, was graduated from Boston Uni- versity, class of '75, and from the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, Boston, 1888. 1L- was a year in the office of the " Nor- way Advertiser," and served an apprcnlu e- ship as apothecary in Norway, Maine, pre- vious to his beginning his professional studies with 1 >r. Kimball. He first located in Medwa-y, Mass., 1S75, where he remained three years ; removed to Brookline, 1878, thence to Franklin, where he has since resided.