Arthur Buckminster Fuller (August 10, 1822 – December 11, 1862) was a Unitarian clergyman of the

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Biography

Fuller was born in

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on August 10, 1822. He was a son of

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and was prepared for college by his sister

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. He graduated from

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in 1843, and studied in the

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. For some years, he was a teacher and missionary in

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, after which he held pastorates in

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(1848–1853),

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(new North Church; 1853–1859) and

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(until 1861). In the

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, he became chaplain to the Sixteenth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry on August 1, 1861. He was honorably discharged on December 10, 1862, on account of failing health. On the day following his discharge, being present at the

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, he volunteered to join the Nineteenth Massachusetts in crossing the

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and was shot to death while attempting to drive the Confederate sharpshooters out of the city. Inventor

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was a grandson of his.

Writings

He edited several works of his sister Margaret. Among his other publications are: * ''Sabbath-School Manual of Christian Doctrine and Institutions'' (Boston, 1850) * ''Historical Discourse delivered in the New North Church, Boston, 1 October 1854'' * ''Liberty versus Romanism'', two discourses (1859)

Notes

References

* * This work in turn cites: ** Fuller, Richard Frederick, ''Chaplain Fuller: Being a Life Sketch of a New England Clergyman and Army Chaplain'' (Boston: Walker, Wise, 1863). ** Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, ed.
''Harvard Memorial Biographies'', v. I, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1866.

External links

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''Chaplain Fuller, Being a Life Sketch of a New England Clergyman and Army Chaplain''
(1864) by his brother Richard Frederick Fuller {{DEFAULTSORT:Fuller, Arthur Buckminster 1822 births 1862 deaths American Unitarian clergy Harvard Divinity School alumni Union Army chaplains Harvard College alumni 19th-century American clergy Union military personnel killed in the American Civil War