Biographies - Elmira Township

William Winfeld Fuller, son of Walter and Chloe (Rowe) Fuller, was born in Elmira township, Stark county, Ill., July 16, 1852. His father was a Pennsylvanian, and mother a native of Maine, as related in other pages.

William W. passed his earlier years on the farm or attending the district schools. At the age of sixteen he entered Hedding College, at Abingdon, Ill., and at the age of nineteen years took charge of a school in this township, over which he presided four terms.

On February 9, 1874, he married Miss Sarah Frances, daughter of Elliott and Eleanor (McCoy) Hoggs, and grand-daughter of Andrew and Hannah (Bowen) Boggs, natives of Virginia, who were married there in 1800; moved to Gallia county, O., where he died in 1840 and she in 1846. Elliott Boggs was born in Ohio, April 27,1813, was married in 1839 to Eleanor McCoy, to whom were born three sons and four daughters. Of these, Lavinia J., married, resides at Yates City; Elizabeth, married, resides in Kansas; William, married, is a citizen of Nebraska; Addison, married, of Iowa, and Sarah F., wife of W. W. Fuller. The mother of those children is the daughter of James and Elizabeth (Gillan) McCoy, natives of Virginia, Mrs. McCoy being a daughter of James and Lydia (Armstrong) Gillan, an old Virginia family. Elliott Boggs was a carpenter, who, in 1840, after his marriage, moved to Virginia and engaged in farming, in connection with his trade. In 1802 he returned to Ohio, and in 1864 came to Knox county, Ill., where he resided until 1875, when he moved to Iowa, where he died, September 28, 1883.

W. W. Fuller, after his marriage, engaged in farming, in partnership with his father, here; and is still interested in agriculture.

In 1883 he accepted a position as clerk in a mercantile house at Elmira. In politics he is republican, in church membership independent, but a supporter of the Methodist Episcopal society here. As related in the history of Toulon, he is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge there.

Mr. and Mrs. Fuller are the parents of two children, Frank R. and Laura L. Fuller.