This contains a transcription of the Levi A. Fuller of Marlboro, NH biography from Biographical Review Volume XXIII: Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of Cheshire and Hillsboro Counties, New Hampshire, Biographical Review Publishing Company, Boston, 1897.
Pages 94-95
LEVI A. FULLER, a prosperous manufacturer of Marlboro and an ex-member of the legislature, was born in Troy, N. H., May 4, 1836, son of Amasa and Hannah (Jackson) Fuller. His grandfather, Captain Isaac Fuller, who was a native of Newton, Mass., moved from that State to Troy, and followed the trade of a carpenter in that town until, at the age of forty-five, he lost his life in a severe snowstorm within sight of his home. Captain Fuller’s wife, in maidenhood Patty Howe, was a native of Holden, Mass.
Amasa Fuller, the father of Levi A., was born in Holden and reared in Troy. After learning the carpenter’s trade, he became quite an extensive builder in Troy and vicinity, and also cleared a farm. He acquired considerable property in Troy, and at the age of sixty years he improved a water-power at Marlboro Depot, where he erected a saw and grist mill. He has also been engaged in the manufacture of woodenware in Marlboro for some time, when, in 1865, he sold the factory to his son. His last days were spent in Swanzey. Amasa Fuller lived to be eighty-two years old. The children of his first wife, whose maiden name was Anna Bemis, are all deceased. Hannah Jackson Fuller, his second wife, who was a native of Warrenton, Vt., became the mother of eight children, of whom Amasa, Levi A., and Irwin J. are living. Amasa is a pail manufacturer in Marlboro, and Irwin J. has a woodenware factory in Perry, Ga.
After attending school in Troy and Marlboro, Levi A. Fuller was employed in his father’s factory for some time. At the age of twenty he went to Fitzwilliam, N. H., where he manufactured clothes-pins for a number of years. In 1865 he purchased his father’s business in Marlboro, and has since given his attention to its management. He manufactures lumber, chair stock, pail handles, bale woods, etc., and has a good business.
On February 22, 1860, Mr. Fuller married for his first wife Elvira L. Bemis, whose children by him were: Cora A., who died in infancy; and Elmer A., a resident of Danvers, Mass., who married Hattie Wilson, of Sullivan, N. H., and has one son, Julian. Mrs. Elvira Fuller died November 15, 1865. Mr. Fuller’s second marriage was contracted October 30, 1866, with Emily L. Adams, a daughter of Dr. Willard Adams, of Swanzey. Born of this marriage are four children—Ida E., Walter T., Arthur L., and Cora A. Ida E. is now the wife of Fred Farrar, of Troy, N. H. Mr. Fuller joined the Congregational church in 1867, and has acted as a Deacon since 1874. He has settled many estates, and has been appointed guardian for children. He is deeply interested in the general prosperity of the neighborhood as well as in its moral and religious welfare, and is connected with the Patrons of Husbandry. In politics he is a Republican. His first Presidential vote was cast for Abraham Lincoln in 1860. He was a member of the Board of Selectmen for a number of years, was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1876, was Representative to the legislature for the years 1873 and 1874; and he has been on the Board of County Commissioners for four years. In the campaign of 1894 he just missed nomination for the State Senate.