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LEVI FULLER was born in Tioga county, Pennsylvania, August 14, 1824; he died at West Union, Iowa, December 8, 1900. He was a lineal descendant from Edward Fuller, of the Plymouth Rock Colony, who came over in the Mayflower in 1620. He was educated at the Academy at New Castle, Pennsylvania, after which he entered upon the study of medicine. Upon his admission to the practice of his profession, he first settled at Rock Grove, Stephenson county, Illinois, but removed to West Union, Fayette county, Iowa, in 1853, which was thenceforth his residence. He was chosen to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1861, serving in the regular session of 1862, and in the extra session of the latter year. Gov. Kirkwood commissioned Dr. Fuller as Surgeon of the 38th Iowa Infantry, but before he could join his regiment President Lincoln had appointed him Collector of Internal Revenue for the Third District of Iowa. After the war he was appointed upon the commission to distribute the aid provided by the legislature for the people who had been impoverished by the grasshoppers in Northwestern Iowa. He served on the school board of West Union for sixteen years, and for twenty years was President of the Board of Trustees of the Upper Iowa University at Fayette. A kind-hearted, excellent gentleman, a friend and promoter of education, awake to every public interest of his town and county, a progressive, but careful and judicious legislator, Dr. Levi Fuller will be long remembered as one of the foremost and most useful pioneer citizens of Northeastern Iowa.