Frank Fuller

Frank Fuller (born September 25, 1827 in Boston , Massachusetts , † February 19, 1915 in New York City ) was an American businessman, lawyer, doctor and politician .

Career

Frank Fuller was the son of John Smith Fuller, a biblical scholar and dean in the Dr. Lyman Beecher's Congregation. He studied medicine and dentistry . He then briefly assisted his brother Edward in publishing and writing The Dover Gazette in Portsmouth , New Hampshire .

He decided to pursue a political career in 1860 when he supported the Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln . He also set up the 2nd New Hampshire Regiment during the Civil War . When the governor of the Utah Territory , Alfred Cumming was reported missing, appointed President Lincoln Fuller to Secretary of Utah with a governor salary and later as Acting Governor. He held the office until 1862.

He then settled in Nevada , where he pursued, among other things, mining and was also admitted to the bar. In 1865 he went to New York , where he accepted the position as Vice President of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company . He also manufactured and sold an apparently odorless Indian rubber blanket, which was fashionable at the time and used for the tops of strollers and condoms . For a brief period he worked as an insurance salesman in Philadelphia . Then he moved back to New York, where he founded a health food company in 1874, which he ran until his death. With the income generated, he built a model farm , which he called Chemmiwink , and which was located near Madison , New Jersey . He provided them with electricity , a library, a bowling alley and a private theater.

He died on February 19, 1915 at the Irving Hotel, Gramercy Park 26. A day later his obituary appeared in The New York Times .

Web links

• Frank Fuller on the page of twainquotes.com (English)
• Frank Fuller on the side of The New York Times (English)