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MATHEW FULLER comes from an old English family of that name, was born in Dutchess county, New York, November 26, 1825, and is a son of Micah and Elizabeth (Clements) Fuller. Micajah Fuller (grandfather) was a native of eastern New York, and farmed in Westchester county, where he died. He had four children, one of whom, Micah Fuller (father), was born in Westchester county in 1788. When a young man he went from his native county to Dutchess; in 1828 he moved from thence to Herkimer county, and in November, 1833, he came to Chautauqua county and settled on a farm in Portland town, which he occupied and tilled until his death in 1860. Politically he was a whig, and a quiet, unassuming gentleman. He married Elizabeth Clements, a native of Dutchess county, where she was born in 1795. She died in 1883. Mrs. Fuller bore her husband fourteen children, six sons and eight daughters.

Mathew Fuller was eight years of age when his father came to this county, He got his education in the common schools, and spent his early life on the farm, and when he had attained manhood adopted farming as his life work. The old homestead of his father is now his property, in which he resides, and one hundred and five acres of land are attached to it, with a fine vineyard of grapes. In 1860 he went to the deer sections of Michigan where he spent six years, mostly hunting. Three elk fell before his rifle, and deer too many to count. The remainder of his life has been spent on his Portland farm. In 1865 he was united in marriage with Mary Barrows, who lived at Port Huron, Michigan, a daughter of La Prelate Barrows, a farmer of Racine county, Wisconsin. Three daughters have been born to them, all of whom are living: Winnie E., Lucy B., and Milly R.

Mathew Fuller is an adherent of democracy. Poor health took him to Michigan, as recorded above, and the bracing air of the fragrant pines invigorated his constitution so that he bids fair to enjoy a long and happy life.