He had been a representative and senator in the Massachusetts
Legislature, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives,
and a member of Congress from the Cambridge district from 1817 to 1825.
He died in October, 1835.
Mr. Fuller was a man of careful and regular habits, indeed he belonged
to a family noted for their devotion to the profession of law, and for
their odd manners and styles of dress.
Mr. Fuller's eldest son, Eugene, was afterwards a student in the law
office of George F. Farley. He was a good debater as a young man, but
as a student rather irregular. He went to New Orleans to reside,
became an editor of, or writer on, the _Picayune_, and on a return
voyage from Boston he was lost overboard.
Margaret Fuller continued to reside in Groton with her mother and the
other members of the family for several years--until about 1841, I
think. In the meantime I met her frequently, although she was several
years my senior. She was a teacher in the Sunday school, and at the
Sunday-evening teachers' meetings she was accustomed to set forth her
opinions with great frankness, and in a style which assumed that they
were not open to debate. While she lived at Groton she contributed to
the _Dial_.
In personal appearance Margaret Fuller was less attractive than one
might imagine from the portraits and engravings now seen.
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