History of Westmoreland, (Cheshire County) New Hampshire United States of America

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Levi Knight Fuller, governor of Vermont, was born in Westmoreland, N.H., Feb. 24, 1841; son of Washington and Lucinda (Constantine) Fuller. He removed to Windham county, Vt., with his parents in 1845 and to Brattleboro in 1854, where he worked in a printing office and at the same time attended the high school and learned telegraphy. He invented an improvement for a steam engine which he exhibited at the Windham county agricultural fair in 1857. He went to Boston, Mass., in 1858, where he served an apprenticeship as a machinist, acted as night telegraph operator, and took a course of study in science. Returning to Brattleboro in 1860 he was machinist and mechanical engineer in the Estey organ company and in April, 1866, was admitted to the company, of which he was vice-president for twenty years. In 1873 he declined the appointment of commissioner to the Vienna exposition tendered by President Grant. He took out more than one hundred patents, and was made secretary of the committee appointed by the association of piano manufacturers, instrumental in securing the adoption of a uniform "standard international musical pitch." He served as aide on the staff of Governor Converse; was state senator, 1880-81; lieutenant-governor of Vermont, 1886-87; and governor, 1892-93. He was a trustee of the Brattleboro savings bank and of the free library, and president of the board of trustees of the Vermont academy. He organized the Fuller light battery, V.N.G., in 1874, and was brevetted colonel in 1887. He was a member of the American association for the advancement of science and of the American society of mechanical engineers. On May 8, 1865, he was married to Abby, daughter of Jacob and Desdemona (Wood) Estey. She is the author of Prince Estey, Story of a Pony; and died Nov. 19, 1879. Governor Fuller died in Brattleboro, Vt., Oct. 10, 1896.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Westmoreland, (Cheshire County) New Hampshire

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