Background
Arthur Buckminster Fuller was born in Cambridgeport, Massachusettson August 10, 1822. He was a son of United States Congressman Timothy Fuller, and was prepared for college by his sister Margaret Fuller.
Arthur Buckminster Fuller was born in Cambridgeport, Massachusettson August 10, 1822. He was a son of United States Congressman Timothy Fuller, and was prepared for college by his sister Margaret Fuller.
He graduated from Harvard College in 1843, and studied in the Harvard Divinity School.
Foreign some years, he was a teacher and missionary in Illinois, after which he held pastorates in Manchester, New Hampshire (1848–1853), Boston (new North Church. 1853–1859) and Watertown, Massachusetts (until 1861). In the American Civil War, he became chaplain to a Massachusetts regiment on August 1, 1861.
He was honorably discharged on December 10, 1862, on account of failing health.
On the day following his discharge, being present at the Battle of Fredericksburg, he volunteered to join a detachment in crossing the Rappahannock River, and was killed while attempting to drive the Confederate sharpshooters out of the city. Inventor Buckminster Fuller was a grandson of his.