Cumberland County, Maine - Samuel Stillman Fuller
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Biography
Samuel Stillman Fuller
Biographical Review
Cumberland County, Maine
Boston
Biographical Review Publishing Company
1896
Page 175-176


Samuel Stillman Fuller, who is living in Bridgton, Me., retired from the active
pursuits of business, was born in the town of Sumner, Oxford County, December
17, 1824. He comes from an old Colonial family of English origin, the immigrant
progenitor having been John Fuller, a native of England, who settled in
Cambridge, Mass., his home being in what is now Newton, about 1644.

John Fuller reared six sons and two daughters: and it is said that twenty-two of
his descendants went into the Revolutionary army from Newton, Mass. His third
son, Joseph Fuller, married in 1680, Lydia, a daughter of Edward Jackson, and
afterward continued his residence in Newton. (See "History of Newton, Mass.," by
the late Rev. S. F. Smith, D.D.) Captain Jonathan Fuller, son of Joseph and
Lydia, born January 7, 1686-7, married Sarah, daughter of John Mirick, the line
being continued through their son Elisha, born March 15, 1719, who in 1750
married Esther, daughter of David Richardson, and became the father of Aaron
Fuller, the grandfather of Samuel S., the subject of the present sketch.

Aaron Fuller removed from Massachusetts to what is now Paris, Oxford County,
Me., in 1786, making the journey across the country with teams. He took up
timbered land, and cleared a farm, on which he lived until after the death of
his first wife, when he removed to Otisfield, where his death occurred October
18, 1841. His first wife, whom he married November 20, 1783, was Hannah Pond,
who was born September 14, 1764, daughter of Simeon and Mary Pond. She died on
January 7, 1836. She had reared seven children, one of them a son named Artemus
Fuller, born October 16, 1784.

Artemus Fuller carried on general farming in the town of Sumner for several
years after his marriage, going from there to North Paris, where be engaged in
repairing and selling clocks. He subsequently settled in Lowell, Mass., where he
remained until his death, eighteen years later, on April 1, 1863. His wife,
formerly Irena Shaw, was born October 16, 1788, in Hebron, Me., and died October
29, 1848, in Lowell. She was the mother of six children; namely, Elvira J.,
Alonzo F., Olive F., Samuel Stillman, Sabrina H., and Melvina F.

Samuel S. Fuller attended the district school during the winter seasons, and
worked on the homestead farm during the summers until nineteen years of age,
when he went to Bethel, where he learned the carriage-maker's trade, serving an
apprenticeship of two years. Going then to Lowell, Mass., he engaged in
carpentering for a year; and after that he entered the Middlesex Mill as a
section hand in the weaving-room, where he remained three or more years.
Returning to this State, Mr. Fuller was employed for the succeeding three years
in the Frye Mills at Lewiston, having charge of the weaving-room. His next
position was that of second hand in the Bay State, now the Washington, Mill at
Lawrence, Mass. In 1857 that mill was closed; and he returned once again to
Maine, and spent two years on the farm of his father-in-law in Madison, at the
end of that time resuming work in the Bay State Mill in Lawrence, having charge
of the weaving-room the following eighteen months. He afterward occupied a
similar position in the woollen-mill at Vassalboro, Me., for five years, going
thence to Lowell, Mass., where he was given the care of three weaving-rooms and
the dressing-room. Four years later Mr. Fuller was appointed assistant
superintendent of the woollen department of the Washington Mill in Lawrence, and
in the course of three years was appointed superintendent, having the entire
charge of the woollen department for six months. From 1875 until 1879 he had
charge of the finishing-rooms of the Pemberton Mills in Lawrence, coming from
there to Bridgton to accept the position of designer for the Forest and the
Pondicherry Mills, in which capacity he was employed until 1890, when he retired
with an honorable record for industrial achievement, his successive promotions
having been well earned.

Mr. Fuller was married July 20, 1850, to Miss Elizabeth N. Reed, a daughter of
Dean and Elizabeth (Norton) Reed. One child was born of this union, a daughter,
Mary Ellen, who died May 17, 1875, aged twenty-two years, two months. Mrs.
Elizabeth N. Fuller was born on February 26, 1824, in the town of Madison,
Somerset County, and died at the age of seventy-one years, May 7, 1895. Mr. and
Mrs. Fuller united with the Congregational church at Lawrence, during their
residence in that city, their membership being afterward transferred to the
Bridgton Congregational Church.