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(XI) Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller, son of Frederick Augustus and Catherine (Weston) Fuller, was born in Augusta, Maine, February II, 1833. He was afforded excellent educational advantages. He was prepared for college at Augusta and went to Bowdoin Col- lege in 1849, and from which he was graduated in 1853, afterward entering the Dane Law School of Harvard University, and receiving his degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1855. He entered upon practice in Augusta, and while enduring the wait for clients which marks the beginning of every lawyer, employed his spare time in newspaper work-a circumstance to which is doubtless due somewhat of the literary facility which has formed a marked feature in his career. In this connection it is pleasing to reproduce some excellent verses written by Mr. Fuller years afterward, on the occasion of the death of General Grant, which show at once a loyal feeling of gratitude for the serv- ices of the great soldier, and a true poetic thought and diction-a power of composition rare in the learned, practiced and successful lawyer.
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Let the drum to trumpet speak-
The trumpet to the cannoneer without-
The cannon to the heavens from each redoubt, Each lowly valley and each lofty peak,
As to his rest the Great Connnander goes
Into the pleasant land of earned repose.
Not In the battles won,
Though long the well-fought fields may keep their name, But In the wide world's sense of duty done,
The gallant soldier finds the meed of fame ;
His life no struggle for ambition's prize,
Simply the duty done that next him lies.
Earth to its kindred earth ;
The spirit to the fellowship of souls !
As, slowly, Time the mighty scroll unrolls Of waiting ages yet to have their birth,
Fame, faithful to the faithful, writes on high
His name as one that was not born to die.
An interesting incident connected with his journalistic experience may be mentioned the fact that while Mr. Fuller was acting as re- porter for the Augusta Age (of which his uncle, B. A. C. Fuller, and himself were pub- lishers) in the Maine House of Representa- tives, James G. Blaine was engaged in a simi- lar capacity in the Senate for the Kennebec Journal. Though political opponents, then and in after life, the two men were always per- sonal friends, and at last, by a curious coinci- dence, found themselves together in Washing- ton-the one as Chief Justice of the United States, and the other as Secretary of State.
Mr. Fuller, while practicing in Augusta, was elected city attorney at the age of twenty- three, and also president of the common coun- cil. In 1856 he visited Chicago, where he happened to meet Mr. S. K. Dow, from York county, Maine, a practicing lawyer. A part- ner of Mr. Dow was just retiring from the firm, and Mr. Dow offered Mr. Fuller a place in his office, either as partner or as a clerk at a salary of fifty dollars per month. He chose the latter, and worked on those terms for five months, living within his income. Be- fore a year had passed he enjoyed a consider- able and remunerative business, and in which he continued until he left the bar for the Su- preme Court. His legal career was strongly marked with industry, persistency and brilliant success. During his thirty years practice he was engaged in as many as three thousand cases at the Chicago bar. He affected no specialty in his profession, conducting a gen- eral practice, practically excluding divorce law and criminal law, in which class of cases his name scarcely appears. Among his most im- portant cases may be mentioned : Field vs. Leiter ; the Chicago Lake Front case; Storey vs. Storey; Storey vs. Storey Estate; Hyde Park vs. Chicago; Carter vs. Carter, etc., and the noted ecclesiastical trial of Bishop Cheney on the charge of heresy. He was engaged in many cases in the Supreme Court of the
United States, and his first is reported in II Wallace, 108, and his last in 131 U. S., 371.
Mr. Fuller's partnership with Mr. Dow con- tinued until 1860. From 1862 to 1864 his firm was Fuller & Ham, then Fuller, Ham & Shepard for' two years, and for two years thereafter Fuller & Shepard. In 1869 he re- ceived as partner his cousin, Joseph E. Smith, son of Governor Smith, of Maine. This was terminated in 1877, after which he was alone. His business was only such as he cared to accept, and his professional income during his later practicing years has been estimated at $20,000 to $30,000 per annum.
Mr. Fuller took an early interest in politics, a staunch Democrat, he became, by sympathy and personal regard an earnest adherent of Senator Stephen A. Douglas, and on the death of the great statesman, June 3, 1861, he was made a member of the committee having charge of the funeral ceremonies. In autumn of the same year Mr. Fuller was elected a member of the Illinois Constitutional Conven- tion which assembled in 1862. He reported to that body the resolutions in memory of Senator Douglas, and niade one of the opening ad- dresses of appreciation on that occasion. In 1864 he was elected to the lower house of the Illinois legislature, and as a Unionist (not a Republican or anti-slaveryite) gave to the sup- port of the national government the same strenuous effort that was afforded by the sup- porters of Senator Douglas generally. He was a delegate to the Democratic national conven- tions of 1864, 1872, 1876 and 1880, always taking an active interest. Immediately after the election of Mr. Cleveland as president for his term, Mr. Fuller called upon him in Al- bany, and Mr. Cleveland at once conceived for him a high appreciation. On the death of Chief Justice Waite, it seemed desirable that his successor should be taken from the West, and Mr. Fuller's liberal education, high legis- lative ability, lofty professional standard, marked industry and command of language- all these, combined with his devotion to the principles of the party for which President Cleveland was the chosen exponent for the nation, made him a logical choice for the po- sition, which was accordingly offered him. Mr. Fuller, highly appreciating the high and un- expected honor, hesitated. He was not am- bitious of distinction, and his large family necessitated his most careful consideration as to whether he could afford a position which would reward him less liberally than did his profession. He, however, consented, and on April 30, 1888, President Cleveland nominated
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him for Chief Justice of the United States, and he was confirmed by the Senate on July 20, and took the oath of office October 8, 1888.
Mr. Fuller received the degree of LL. D. from the Northwestern University and from Bowdoin College in 1888; from Harvard in 1890; and from Yale and Dartmouth in 1901. He is chancellor of the Smithsonian Institute; chairman of the board of trustees of the Pea- body Education Fund; vice-president of the John F. Slater fund ; member of board of trus- tees of Bowdoin College ; was one of the arbitra- tors to settle the boundary line between Venezu- ela and British Guinea, Paris, 1899 ; was a mem- ber of the arbitral tribunal in the matter of the Muscat Downs, The Hague, 1905; is a mem- ber of the permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague; and received the thanks of con- gress, December 20, 1889. As Chief Justice he has administered the official oath to Presi- dents Harrison, Cleveland, Mckinley and Taft.
Mr. Fuller married (first) in 1858, Calista O., daughter of Eri Reynolds, and (second) May 30, 1866, Mary E., daughter of William F. Coolbaugh, a leading citizen of Chicago. She died April 17, 1904, when the Chief Jus- tice practically retired from society.
The name of Fuller is derived FULLER from the trade so called, mean- ing to mill or scour woolen cloth. In all probability this surname origi- nated in the county of Suffolk, formerly the chief seat of the woolen manufacturing in- dustry in England, and it became a prominent one in the southeastern counties. John Ful- ler, supposed to have come over with Gov- ernor Winthrop, settled at Cambridge Vil- lage (now Newton) in 1644. Thomas Ful- ler, who arrived from the mother country in 1638, located first in Woburn and later in Middleton. John Fuller, of Ipswich, and an- other John Fuller, who settled in Saugus or Lynn, were both early immigrants and have often been mistaken for one and the same person. Another Thomas Fuller appears in the records of Dedham, Massachusetts, as a resident there in 1642, and his grandson John resided in Roxbury until 1733.
(I) Ebenezer Fuller, a revolutionary sol- dier, was born in Roxbury, January 16, 1760, and resided in Boston. It is more than prob- able that he was a descendant of the Ded- ham settler previously referred to, but his line of descent could not be found in any of the records consulted. His death occurred in 1809. He was married May 5, 1793, to Lydia
Goddard, born November 25, 1772, died Au- gust II, 1828, presumably in Boston. Their children were: Henrietta, Nabby G., Abigail, Thomas Jefferson and John.
(II) John, youngest child of Ebenezer and Lydia (Goddard) Fuller, was born in Rox- bury, December 18 or 28, 1806. Having adopted the occupation which his name implies, that of a fuller or cloth-finisher, he followed it in Lancaster, Massachusetts, for some time, and for twenty years thereafter he was in the comb-finishing business. John Fuller died 1881. In his later years he supported the Re- publican party. He was a member of the Uni- tarian church. In 1827 he married Sophronia O. W. Adams, born in Ashburnham, Massa- chusetts, March 31, 1806, daughter of Samuel Adams, also born in Ashburnham, both born in the same house. Her death occurred May 3, 1887. She became the mother of nine chil- dren, but four of whom-Sophronia, Eben, Sidney T. and Edward-are now living; the others were: John, Henrietta, Abbie, Lydia and Eleanor.
(III) Sidney Thomas, third son and fourth child of John and Sophronia O. W. (Adams) Fuller, was born in Shirley, Massachusetts, February 2, 1836. From the Lancaster public schools he entered the Wilbraham ( Massachu- setts) Academy, and after completing the reg- ular course at that well-known institution, pur- sued a scientific course at Cambridge, giving his special attention to civil engineering. Turn- ing his attention to railway construction, he was employed in the building of the Burlington and Missouri River line, and subsequently en- tering the service of the Philadelphia, Wil- mington and Baltimore Railroad Company, was for seventeen years in charge of the main- tainance of way. Mr. Fuller was assistant engineer of construction of the first long bridge over the Susquehanna river at Havre de Grace, Maryland; built the first railway running into Mexico and was chief engineer and general superintendent of the Mexican railroad. As a recognized expert in the laying out and construction of railways and bridges he was secured by the railroad commissions of Massachusetts to examine and report the exact condition of railroads in that commonwealth, and in 1879-80 he was similarly employed in the Russian Empire. In 1886 Mr. Fuller set- tled in Kennebunk and is still residing there. As secretary and treasurer of the local Loan and Building Association, he has labored dili- gently and effectively in its behalf for the past seventeen years, and he is otherwise concerned in the financial interests of the town, having
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been for nine years a director of the Ocean National Bank. He has served as a selectman, assessor and overseer of the poor ; represented his district in the lower branch of the state 'legislature for the years 1899-1903; and in politics is a Republican. He attends the Uni- tarian church. He is a Master Mason, be- longing to Havre de Grace Lodge, and also affiliates with the Independent Order of Good Templars.
On October 14, 1865, Mr. Fuller was united in marriage with Annette E., daughter of Dr. Orren and Elizabeth (Holden) Ross, of Ken- nebunk. Her grandparents were Simon and Mary (Perkins) Ross, of Kennebunk, and their eldest son, Orren, born September 14, 1812, acquired his early education in the dis- trict schools and at the North Brighton Acad- emy. . At the age of fourteen years he en- tered the employ of Dixey Stone, a grocery merchant at Bridgton Centre, and prior to his majority he engaged in mercantile business for himself in Sweden, Oxford county, Mainc. Selling his business in 1834, he turned his at- tention to teaching penmanship and later to the study of medicine. While a medical student at Bowdoin College he was for a period of three months an interne at the McLean Hos- pital in Boston, and receiving his degree with the class of 1839, he- began the practice of his profession in Lyman. He subsequently re- moved to Kennebunk, residing there for the remainder of his life. Dr. Ross married Eliza- beth, daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Walker) Holden, of Sweden. She bore him seven chil- dren : Annette E., Isabel M., Orren S., Frank M., Florence H., and two who died in infancy. Annette E. is the wife of Sidney T. Fuller, as previously stated. Isabel M. married H. B. Thompson. Florence H. married James K. Cross. Mr. and Mrs. Fuller have had two children : Florabel and Sophronia Elizabeth, neither of whom are now living. Mrs. Fuller died January 7, 1908.
ROGERS (I) John Rogers, immigrant ancestor, was living in Scituate in 1647 on a lot of land lying between that of Thomas Hicks and John Stockbridge. There is a tradition that his father was a brother of Rev. William With- erell's mother, who was daughter of John Rog- ers, the martyr, but there is no proof of this, and it seems doubtful if that could have been the case. John Rogers removed to Marsh- field, Massachusetts, about 1647, where he re- sided until early in 1661. He was fined there several times for not attending town meeting.
He married Frances - -, who married ( second) Walter Briggs, of Scituate. Walter Briggs' will was dated January 16, 1676-77, and proved June 4, 1684. John Rogers died about May, 1661, and his wife died in 1687. His will was dated February 1, 1660, and proved June 5, 1661. Children, part probably born in England, the others in Scituate: I. John, mentioned below. 2. Joseph, married Abigail Barker. 3. Timothy, married Eunice Stetson ; died 1728. 4. Ann, married (first) George Russell; (second) John Hudson. 5. Mary, married, 1656, John Rouse. 6. Abigail, born in Scituate about 1645; married, January I, 1678-79, Timothy White.
(II) John (2), son of John (I) Rogers, was born about 1632, probably in England, and died May 7, 1717, according to the church records. He joined the Quakers in 1660, and suffered more or less persecution on that ac- count. He was a resident of Marshfield, and was grand juryman in 1659. In 1692 he was selectman, and assisted in running the line between Marshfield and Scituate. He was on a committee to lay out highways in 1692. In his will, dated May 9, 1718, proved June 24, 1718, he describes himself as "aged." In 1708 the Friends' "women's meetings" were held at his house part of the time. He married ( first) October 8, 1656, Rhoda, born October 11, 1639, died about 1662, daughter of Elder Thomas King, of Scituate. He married (second ) about 1663, Elizabeth - who died September 13, 1692. He married (third) Elizabeth -, who died May 9, 1705. Children of first wife, born in Marshfield: 1. John, bap- tized August 23, 1657, married twice. 2. Thomas, mentioned below. 3. Rhoda, baptized August 3, 1662, died young. Children of sec- ond wife : 4. Abigail, born November 3, 1663, married, September 9, 1681, Nathaniel Cham- berlain. 5. Mary, born March 10, 1665, mar- ried, January 24, 1682, Samuel Daggett ; died April 15, 1690. 6. Johanna, born October 7, 1667, married Judah Butler; died 1747. 7. Elizabeth, born December 19, 1669, married, May II, 1699, Hugh Copperthwaite ; died Au- gust 27, 1707.
(III) Thomas, son of John (2) Rogers, was born in Marshfield, December 2, 1659, accord- ing to the town records, and December 25, 1659, according to the Friends' records. He married, June 6, 1712, Bethiah, born March 3, 1682-83, died January 23, 1756, daughter of Gershom and Mary Ewell. He died March 6, 1745-46. His will was dated September 10, 1745, and proved March 12, 1745-46. His widow's will was dated June 10, 1755, and
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proved May 4, 1756. Children, born in Marsh- field : I. Rhoda, born May 28, 1713, married, October 19, 1738, Benjamin Wing; died April 21, 1758. 2. John, December 19, 1714, mar- ried, December 29, 1737, Sarah Wing; died September 5, 1791. 3. Thomas, October 28, 1716, mentioned below. 4. Bethiah, Septem- ber 29, 1718, married, October 1, 1741, John Wady.
(IV) Thomas (2), son of Thomas ( I) Rog- ers, was born at Marshfield, October 28, 1716, died December 6, 1810. He married, Septem- ber 8, 1744, Deborah, born October 16, 1723, died December 8, 1807, daughter of Dr. Isaac and Deborah (Jacobs) Otis. Children, born in Marshfield : I. Bethia, February 9, 1745-46, married, June 10, 1777, Jonathan Slocum. 2. Hannah, October 4, 1747, married, July 6, 1773, Joshua Dillingham. 3. Thomas, Feb- ruary 15, 1748-49, died September 29, 1752. 4. Deborah, October 20, 1751, died unmarried March 16, 1775. 5. Priscilla, February 27, 1754, married, December 3, 1777, Mordecai Ellis ; died September 8, 1850. 6. James, April 16, 1756, mentioned below. 7. Abigail, Octo- ber 10, 1758, died unmarried November 29, 1842. 8. Huldah, September 30, 1760, mar- ried, December 4, 1783, Tristram Russell. 9. Rhoda, February 23, 1762, died without issue. IO. Lucy, March 21, 1765, died without issue.
(V) James, son of Thomas (2) Rogers, was born in Marshfield, April 16, 1756, died No- vember 29, 1832. In 1812 he removed to Peru, Clinton county, New York, where he and his wife died. He married, March 5, 1787, Deborah, born November 14, 1762, died May 4, 1813, daughter of Samuel and Mary ( An- thony) Smith. Children, born at Marshfield : I. Deborah, August 28, 1788, married, Octo- ber 29, 1812, Jacob Willetts ; died January II, 1880. 2. James, May 15, 1790, mentioned be- low. 3. Mary, July 19, 1792. 4. Hannah, June 18, 1794. 5. Samuel, January 27, 1797. 6. Rhoda, June 21, 1799. 7. Thomas, Jan- uary 9, 1'802.
(VI) James (2), son of James (1) Rogers, was born in Marshfield, May 15, 1790, and when a young man removed with his parents to Peru, New York. He married Sarah Keese, and had a child, Deborah, born in Peru, September 8, 1815. She married, December 24, 1840, John Jones Fuller. (See sketch of Fuller family.)
The surnames Howard and HOWARD Hayward were once identical. Among the early settlers and their descendants the name was used inter-
changeably, spelled Howard, Haward, Ha- word, Hawoorth, etc. Heywood was also sometimes misspelled and the same spellings cited here used for that family.
(I) John Howard, immigrant ancestor of the Bridgewater family, was born in England. He spelled his name Haward, but it was pro- nounced like Howard. Another family in Bridgewater at the same time, doubtless of the same ancestry, spelled the name Hayward, though many of the later generations have also spelled their name Howard. John Howard was born in England. When a young man, he came to Plymouth and settled later in Dux- bury. He was able to bear arms, according to the list dated 1643. He was a volunteer for the Pequot war, June 7, 1637. His brother, James Howard, who came with him to Ply- mouth, went to the Bermudas. John removed to West Bridgewater, where he was a pro- prietor and original settler in 1651. He was a young man when he emigrated and lived for a time in the family of Captain Myles Standish. He became a citizen of much influence and prominence and one of the first military offi- cers of the town of Bridgewater. He took the oath of fidelity in 1659. His descendants lived on his original homestead until a gen- eration ago. He began to keep a tavern as early as 1670 and a tavern has been kept in Bridgewater down to recent times by his de- scendants. He died in 1700. He was an ensign in 1664. Children : I. John. 2. James. 3. Jonathan, mentioned below. 4. Elizabeth, born at Plymouth, August 20, 1647, married Edward Fobes. 5. Sarah, married Zachariah Packard. 6. Bethia, married Henry Kingman. 7. Ephraim.
(II) Major Jonathan, son of John How- ard, married Sarah Dean, and among their children was a son Jonathan, mentioned be- low.
(III) Jonathan (2), son of Major Jona- than (1) Howard, was born in 1692. He married Sarah, daughter of John Field, in 1719, and among their children was a son Nathan, mentioned below.
(IV) Nathan, son of Jonathan (2) How- ard, was born in 1720. He married Jane, daughter of Major Edward Howard, in 1746.
(V) Nathan (2), son of Nathan (I) How- ard, was born in 1746. He married Susanna, daughter of Henry Howard, of eastern Mas- sachusetts, and among their children was a son Ruel, mentioned below.
(VI) Ruel, son of Nathan (2) Howard, was born in 1776. He came to Maine in 1814, and was a farmer, carpenter and contractor.
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He was a major in the war of 1812. He mar- ried Mary Boyd, who probably came from Bristol, Maine. Children: Columbus, men- tioned below; Boyd, Susan, Brizillai, Fanny, Ruel, Cyril, Joseph and Everett.
(VII) Columbus, son of Ruel Howard, was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 1801. He followed farming in Sidney, Maine. He mar- ried Lucy, born in Sidney, Maine, 1810, daughter of Captain Salvanus Ambrose and Lucy Ann (Cowen) Hammond. Captain Hammond was lost at sea when Mrs. Howard was an infant. Children: Jane Frances, Mary, and Emily H., born 1843, wife of James E. Fuller.
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ROBIE The derivation of this name is a matter of conjecture, but Hon. Henry John Roby, M. P., from Manchester, England, gives reasons for think- ing that the name is taken from the hamlet of Roby, in the parish of Huyton, five or six miles east of Liverpool. Since 1403 the resi- dence of the Robies can be distinctly traced at Castle Donington, a small town in the north- ern edge of Leicestershire, England, which lies between the counties of Derby and Not- tingham. The name is variously spelled Robie, Roby, Robey, Robay, Robye, and Rooby, but was spelled Robie by Thomas, the father of Henry, the immigrant. Disconnected statements in the records of Castle Donington between 1402 and 1512 show the existence of the family at that place between those dates. In September, 1402-1403, John Roby was pos- sessed of a copy hold in the manor of Castle Donington.
(I) John Roby, with whom the connected history of the family begins, took part in the court proceedings of Castle Donington, in Oc- tober, 1512. In March, 1513, he was admitted tenant of two burgages. In June, 1513, he was named at a court at which William Roby and three others were admitted to three cur- tilages. He died shortly before Christmas, 1515. His children were: Thomas and Em- mot.
(II) Thomas, son of John Roby, was born at Castle Donington, 1501, and May 6, 1516, he was admitted as son and heir of John Roby, to a taft, a croft, and one yard of land, and : moiety of meadow, at a rent of twenty shillings a year. In 1526 Emmot Roby was admitted to a cottage, to the use of his brother Thomas, who in each of the years 1527-32-36 was on the homage. In 1538-40 he was mentioned in the court proceedings. In 1542 he defended a suit in chancery, and in 1547 was on the
homage. He married Elizabeth -. He
was buried at Castle Donington, December 5, 1552, and his wife was also buried there, Feb- ruary 22, 1565. Their children were: Robert, John, Thomas, Edmond, William, Bartholo- mew, Michael and Maric.
(III) Thomas (2), third child of Thomas (I) and Elizabeth Roby, yeoman, was en- gaged in litigation concerning land in Don- ington Manor, in 1560-83-87, and mentioned in the proceedings of the Manor Court in 1559-60-66, and 1586. He married (first) November 25, 1569, at Castle Donington, Joane Cowley, who was buried at Castle Don- ington, October 10, 1579. He married (sec- ond) April 22, 1583, at Castle Donington, Mary Gatley. By the first wife he had a son Thomas; by the second wife a daughter Eliza- beth. He was buried at Castle Donington, April 12, 1588. In his will dated April 10, 1588, proved at Leicester, September 12, of the same year, he speaks of his wife Mary and his children Thomas and Elizabeth (both un- der age) his brother John and his nephew John ( under age), son of William, and makes bequests to John Gatley and Dorothy Gatley.
(IV) Thomas (3) Robye (or Robie or Roby), only son of Thomas (2) and Joane (Cowley) Roby, was under age April, 1588. He was on the homage of the Manor Court in 1637-46, and probably other years. He died March 27, 1653. His will, dated March 24, 1652, was proved at Westminster, September 20, 1653. He married, October 6, 1606, Mary Coxon, born April 20, 1586, and buried at Castle Donington, April 26, 1641. She was the daughter of John Coxon. The children of this union were: Robert, Mary, Thomas, John, William, Henry, Edward, Samuel.
(V) Henry, sixth child and fifth son of Thomas (3) and Mary (Coxon) Robie, born at Castle Donington, February 12, 1619, died April 22, 1688, in Hampton, New Hampshire, aged sixty-nine. Early in 1639 he came to Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Soon after he went to Exeter, New Hampshire, which was founded by Rev. John Wheelwright the year before. This seems to have been his objective point. At that time there was no constituted authorities over the patent of New Hampshire, and the Exeters, as the Plymouth colonists before them had done, formed a vol- untary combination for governmental pur- poses, and this agreement, dated July 4, 1639, bears the signature of Henry Robie. In May, 1643, he joined in the petition of the in- habitants of Exeter to the general court of Massachusetts, praying that their territory
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