Sparks from a locomotive: or, Life and liberty in Europe
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Grand Transformation Scenes in the United States: Or, Glimpses of Home After Thirteen Years Abroad
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Belle Brittan on a tour at Newport, and here and there
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Hiram Fuller was an American journalist and teacher. His talent was noticed by numerous amount of people.
Background
Hiram Fuller was born on September 6, 1814, in Halifax, Plymouth County, Massachusets. He was the second of the eight children of Thomas and Sally (Sturtevant) Fuller, and the seventh in descent from Samuel Fuller, a physician, who emigrated from Norfolk to Holland in 1608, came to Plymouth in the Mayflower in 1620 and played a worthy part in the early history of the colony.
Education
Fuller received a good education in his native town.
Career
Fuller became a teacher at the age of sixteen, and in 1836, obtained the principalship of a small school in Providence, Rhode Island.
For a year and a half, Margaret Fuller was one of his assistants. This period of teaching is the most creditable in Fuller’s career. He was proprietor of a bookstore in Providence for several years, and endeavored to assist local literary talent by bringing out The Rhode Island Book (1841), edited by Anne C. Lynch, who later became Mrs. Botta; but in 1843, he moved to New York and joined George Pope Morris and Nathaniel Parker Willis in conducting the New York Mirror.
Confiscatory postal rates soon forced them to make their weekly into a daily paper, the Evening Mirror, which Fuller continued to own and manage for fourteen years after the withdrawal of his partners. In October 1844, he improved his social and financial position by marrying Emilie Louise, daughter of John F. Delaplaine, an affluent New Yorker.
Embroiling himself with Edgar Allan Poe, he was so injudicious as to reprint the defamatory attack on him by Thomas Dunn English. Poe retorted with a libel suit and was awarded $225 damages.
Fuller was among the first to discern presidential qualities in Gen. Zachary Taylor, who rewarded his insight with an appointment in the Navy Department. Under the pseudonym of “Belle Brittan” he wrote gossipy, diverting special correspondence of the Willisian variety, some of which was republished in Belle Brittan on a Tour, at Newport, and Here and There (1858) and Sparks from a Locomotive, or Life and Liberty in Europe (1859).
As the Civil War approached, he grew increasingly proSouthern in his utterances, so that when hostilities opened he found it advisable to leave the country. In London, he started a weekly paper, the Cosmopolitan, to represent the Confederate point of view, but he secured little encouragement and twice went bankrupt.
By espousing the Southern cause, he lost his friends and virtually ruined himself. In Grand Transformation Scenes in the United States or Glimpses of Home after Thirteen Years Abroad (1875), he tried eagerly to reinstate himself with Northern readers, but no one was any longer interested in him.
He died obscurely in Paris, where for some years, he had been living by newspaper work.
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Politics
In his editorial policy, Fuller was professedly non-partisan and unmistakably Protestant, white, and American.
Personality
Fuller proved so intelligent, amiable, and devoted that interested people built a school for him on Greene St. , and at the dedication of the building, June 10, 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered the address.
Connections
In October 1844, Fuller married Emilie Louise, daughter of John F. Delaplaine, an affluent New Yorker.