Adjutant General Allen Curtis Fuller (September 24, 1822 – December 6, 1901) was the

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from November 11, 1861, to January 1, 1865, during the

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Biography

Allen C. Fuller was born in Farmington, Connecticut, in 1822. He studied in Towanda, Pennsylvania, and under

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. He became a lawyer and lived in Belvidere, Illinois, from 1846 until his death at his home there in 1901. His daughter, Ida Candace Fuller Hovey, was born July 6, 1859, and married Theron Adelbert Hovey on July 6, 1878. She died of consumption (now more commonly called tuberculosis) at the age of 24 in Bayfield, Wisconsin, on August 22, 1883, after battling the sickness for several months. General Fuller then donated $5,000 to the city of Belvidere in Illinois to build a public library in her honor. To this day it's still open and standing. From before the war until July 1862, he was a judge of the

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. He served as Adjutant General of Illinois from 1862 until 1865. After the war, he was elected as the representative of Boone County in the

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. He became Speaker of the House, and afterwards served two terms in the

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from 1867 until 1872. In 1890, he built a Queen Anne style summer house near

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in Bayfield, Wisconsin, in search of relief for his asthma or hay fever. The house is now known as the "Old Rittenhouse Inn".

Legacy

Fuller was eponymised in Camp Fuller.

References

External links

Allen C. Fuller entry
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