Horace Williams Fuller

Horace Williams Fuller (June 15, 1844 - October 26, 1901) was an American lawyer and editor who served as the first editor of The Green Bag, a late nineteenth and early twentieth century legal news and humor magazine.

Born in Augusta, Maine, his father was Benjamin Apthorp Gould Fuller, by profession a lawyer, who was for several years on the bench, and his grandfather was also a lawyer. His mother's maiden name was Harriet Seiden Williams. After getting an education at the Augusta High School and Phillips Academy, Exeter, Fuller came to Boston in 1861, and for several years devoted himself to business, beginning as a clerk in the office of Page, Richardson & Company. Later the legal instincts of the family prevailed (Melville Fuller, the Chief Justice of the United States, was his cousin), and after reading law in the office of Henry W. Paine, and taking a course of instruction at the Boston University Law School, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1876. He never appeared much in the courts, his business (so long as he continued to follow it) being mainly office practice and trusts. In 1877 he married Emily Gorham Carter, of Roxbury, and shortly afterwards made his home in Brookline—a suburb of Boston—where he thereafter resided.

Although Fuller never took a university course, he was such a constant student throughout his life that he attained a culture so broad and thorough that many readers were surprised to learn that he did not hold a college degree. He had an especial fondness for French literature, writing in his leisure hours, and contributing anonymously to magazines and the press, spirited translations from that language. His only acknowledged work in this line was a small volume entitled Noted French Trials, Impostors and Adventurers, published in 1882.

When The Green Bag was projected, its publishers, knowing Fuller's literary aptitudes, offered him the position of editor, which was accepted. Fuller threw himself into his new duties with vigor, and for many years was not only editor, but also, to a great extent, business manager. Although he relinquished the latter part of his duties after the first few years he kept up the literary portion with unflagging devotion, producing the twelve bound volumes of The Green Bag, from 1889 to 1901 inclusive.

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