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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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836 HISTORY OF NORTHERN OALIFORNIA.
mains were taken back to Coldwater for interment. Shortly afterward the Judge started
again for the coast and arrived at Marysville
December 18, 1878, where his son was living,
and again resumed the practice of his profession. During the past few years, however, he
has lived a more retired life, resting upon the
laurels and competency he has so well earned.
In political matters, notwithstanding his tem
perance views, he has always acted with the
Democratic party. He cast his first presidential vote for Andrew Jackson in 1882, and has
voted for every Democratic candidate for the
Presidency since that time.
nt bette Tee ee
and insurance agent at Marysville, was
born in 1841, in Branch County, Michigan. After he was twelve years old he attended school at various places, at Monroe,
Michigan, New Hampton Institute at Fairfax,
AF aot in JESSE B. FULLER, real-estate
Vermont, two years, and Hillsdale (Michigan) .
College, three years. Then he entered the banking house of Lawyer & Young, at Coldwater, as
teller; and while there the great war of the Rebellion was begun and he enlisted, in May,
1861, in the First Michigan Artillery, and afterward in the Fourth Michigan Battery, which
was subsequently Battery D of the First Michigan Light Artillery. During his service he
was most of the time under the command of
General George H. Thomas: he was promoted
tu Lieutenant and afterward to Captain of Battery D, and about the close of the war he was
brevetted Lieutenant Colonel; was Assistant
Inspector of Artillery; was also appointed Assistant Inspector on the staff of General Van .
Cleve; was mustered out in September, 1865.
Then he was employed by the Merchants’ .
Union Express Company at Toledo, Ohio, and .
afterward by the American Express Company
at Chicago. He then came to the Pacific Coast
in the empley of the Wells-Fargo Express .
Company, being stationed as their agent at San
Rafael. In 1878 he was Wells, Fargu & Co.’s
agent at Marysville, where he also engaged in
real estate and insurance. The express agency
he resigned in 1888. Mr. Fuller has been
Master of Yuba Lodge of Freemasons three
years; Commander of the Marysville Commandery, Knights Templar; Grand Patron of
the order of Eastern Star of the State of California; Past Post Commander in the Grand
Army of the Republic, in which order he has
been also Junior Vice Department Commander,
and the President of the Association of Northern California; is now Aid de-Camp on the
staff of the National Commander, General R.
A. Alger, of Michigan; is also a member of
California Commandery of the Military Order
of the Loyal Legion.
Mr. Fuller was married in 1862, while in the
army, to Mary Cressy, a daughter of Dr. A.Cressy, of Hillsdale, Michigan. She died in
1867, the mother of one daughter, who is now
living; and Mr. Fuller for his present wife
married, in 1873, Miss Carrie Cressy, a sister
of his former wife, and by this marriage there
are two sons and one daughter.
Sutter County, was born in Switzerland,
July 4, 1821. At the age of twenty
years he entered France and resided there thirteen years, and then lived about the same length
of time in Italy. In 1847 he emigrated to the
United States, landing at New York in June.
After a residence of a few months in the State
of New York he removed to Jefferson County,
Missouri. In 1853 he crossed overland to California with a herd of live-stock, arriving in
Marysville September 6. After living in Yuba
County a year he purchased a tract of land in
Sutter County, which he, however, sold in 1850.
Finally he homesteaded a place where he now
resides, containing 400 acres of cultivated land,
AF sess T. NEWCOME, a farmer of