Biographies - Elmira Township

Walter Munson Fuller, son of Ambrose and Hannah (Munson) Fuller, was born in Pennsylvania, September 20, 1822. His father moved to Pennsylvania with parents in his youth, worked on the homestead farm, there learned the millwright's trade, married Miss Munson, and in 1839 came to this county, settling on lands which he purchased on section 20, Elmira township. Walter M. received a liberal and practical education.

On January 1, 1849, he married Miss Chloe M., a daughter of James and Diana Howe, natives of Maine. Her father died in 1827; her mother married again, and with her Mrs. Fuller came here in 1839. (In 1851 her mother and stepfather moved to Iowa, where she died in 1859.) They are the parents of four children: James A., deceased; William W., head of a family in this township; Augusta, unmarried, and Luella May, married and residing here.

After Mr. Fuller's marriage he purchased the interests of his father's heirs in the homestead farm of 110 acres, to which he has since added 190 acres of farm land and 50 acres of timber lands, all in this township.

Mr. Fuller has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for over thirty years, his wife and daughters being also members. He has been township school treasurer for thirty-four years, justice of the peace for ten years, and town clerk thirty years. To learn of the part he has taken in building up the social and industrial interests of Elmira, the reader is referred to the chapter on the history of that township.