Solomon Carter Fuller

Solomon Carter Fuller
Solomon Carter Fuller (c. 1910)
Born	August 11, 1872 Monrovia, Liberia
Died	January 16, 1953(1953-01-16) (aged 80) Framingham, Massachusetts
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	Boston University School of Medicine (M.D., 1897)
Occupation	physician, psychiatrist
Known for	work in the field of Alzheimer's disease
Spouse(s)	Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Parent(s)	Solomon C. Fuller Anna Ursilla (James) Fuller

Solomon Carter Fuller (August 1, 1872–January 16, 1953) was a pioneering African-American physician and psychiatrist. Born in Monrovia, Liberia, he completed his college education and medical degree in the United States. He studied psychiatry in Munich, Germany. He returned to the United States, where he worked for much of his career at Westborough State Hospital in Westborough, Massachusetts.

In 1919 Fuller became part of the faculty at Boston University School of Medicine. He made significant contributions to the study of Alzheimer's disease during his career. He also had a private practice as a physician, neurologist and psychiatrist.

Solomon Fuller was born in Monrovia, Liberia. His father Solomon had become a coffee planter in Liberia and an official in its government. His mother, Anna Ursala James, was the daughter of physicians and medical missionaries. His paternal grandparents, John Lewis Fuller and his wife, had been slaves in Virginia. John Fuller bought his and his enslaved wife’s freedom and they moved to the city of Norfolk, Virginia. The couple emigrated from there to Liberia in 1852, a colony set up in West Africa by the American Colonization Society beginning earlier in the century. They helped establish the nation developed by African Americans and liberated African slaves.

His mother set up a school to teach her son Solomon and area children. Fuller also studied at the College Preparatory School of Monrovia.

He had a keen interest in medicine since his maternal grandparents were medical missionaries in Liberia. Fuller moved to the United States to study at Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina, graduating in 1893. Later he attended Long Island College Medical School.