Levi K. Fuller
| Levi K. Fuller | |
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| 44th Governor of Vermont | |
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In office October 6, 1892 – October 4, 1894 |
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| Lieutenant | F. Stewart Stranahan |
| Preceded by | Carroll S. Page |
| Succeeded by | Urban A. Woodbury |
| 35th Lieutenant Governor of Vermont | |
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In office October 7, 1886 – October 4, 1888 |
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| Governor | F. Stewart Stranahan |
| Preceded by | Ebenezer J. Ormsbee |
| Succeeded by | Urban A. Woodbury |
| Member of the Vermont Senate | |
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In office 1880–1881 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | February 24, 1841 Westmoreland, New Hampshire |
| Died | October 10, 1896 (aged 55) Brattleboro, Vermont |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Abigail Emily Estey (born September 1, 1842) (m. 1865; his death 1896) |
| Profession | Engineer, Inventor and Executive, Estey Organ Company |
Levi Knight Fuller (February 24, 1841 – October 10, 1896) was the 44th Governor of Vermont from 1892 to 1894.
Born in Westmoreland, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, and attended Brattleboro High School and later apprenticed as a machinist in Boston, also working as telegrapher to finance additional studies in engineering and manufacturing.
Fuller became an engineer and executive with Brattleboro's Estey Organ Company, and in 1865 married Abby Estey, the owner's daughter. He patented over one hundred inventions, including international standard pitch, an innovation that was adopted by manufacturers of musical instruments throughout the world, and called by the maker of Steinway pianos "perhaps the most important achievement in the annals of musical history."
Fuller was also an astronomer, and built his own observatory and library. He was a founder of North Carolina's Shaw University, the South's oldest historically African-American college. Fuller served as a director of the Brattleboro Savings Bank and a trustee of Brattleboro Free Library.
Fuller was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and American Institute of Electrical Engineers. He was active in the Sons of the American Revolution, and served as president of the Vermont chapter.
The University of Vermont conferred Fuller an honorary master's degree in 1893, and Norwich University presented him an honorary LL.D. degree in 1895.
In the 1870s he organized the Fuller Light Battery. Fuller equipped and funded the unit for two years, when it was accepted into the Vermont National Guard. As a result of Fuller's efforts, the Vermont National Guard was the first state to field rifled artillery. The Fuller Light Battery was noted for its efficiency and accuracy, and won numerous gunnery competitions. In 1887 he was appointed a colonel on the staff of Governor Julius Converse.
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