E. W. Fuller (1937)

FULLER

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 5/15/2007 at 08:42:31

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Tuesday, June 8, 1937

FORMER MADISONIAN EDITOR DIES IN EAST

E. W. Fuller Published This Paper at Close of Civil War

Although well-informed persons in this community were under the impression that all former editors of the Madisonian were dead, it was learned this week that one of the earliest of them succumbed only this spring.

That editor was E. W. Fuller. In partnership with a Mr. Wallace, he purchased this paper, then known as The Hawkeye Flag, in September of 1865, upon his return from the Civil War. In January 1866, Fuller bought out Wallace's interest and published and edited the Madisonian for two more years before selling out to M. H. Ewing. During his regime, Fuller changed the name of the paper back to the original "Madisonian".

According to the information received here this week, Mr. Fuller died this spring at his home in Lima, Ohio at the age of 96 years. Before the Civil War he had edited the Dallas County Union at Adel.
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Coordinator's note: Absolutely no trace of E. W. Fuller could be found in Ohio in 1930s. A Dallas County History states that Fuller operated a newspaper in Adel from mid 1860 thru about mid 1862 when he became a sutler for the 39th Iowa Infantry. The only other document found for him was an 1862 tabulation of Adel men eligible for military service that included their ages. Fuller's age was 33, putting his year of birth at about 1829. If he truly died in 1937, he would be 108 years old so the validity of this obituary is suspect.