Surnames: FULLER, VAN AERNAM, FAY, MANLEY, TWOMLEY

FULLER Family of Little Valley
Bio from:
Historical Gazetteer and Biographical Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, pub 1893
History of the Town of Little Valley – Chapter XXXIV (34)
Pages 776 & 777

Brevet-Col. Henry Van Aernam FULLER,* oldest son of Benjamin and Ann (VAN AERNAM) FULLER, was born in the village of Little Valley, Feb. 16, 1841. He had two brothers and a sister. Benjamin C. was a soldier in the 37th N. Y. Vols. and a clerk in the Interior Department; Nathan A. was paying teller in the United States House of Representatives during the Forty-second, Forty-third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses. His grandfather, Edmund FULLER, was the first settler in Randolph; his father was among the earliest in Little Valley. His mother, a lady of great intellectual strength, is the sister of Hon. Henry VAN AERNAM, M. D. (see page 131). Henry V. FULLER obtained his education in the common schools and at Fredonia and Randolph Academies. Had he survived the war it was his intention to have devoted himself to the legal profession. At the age of seventeen he was employed by Messrs. Bradley FAY & Co., lumber manufacturers, to run rafts down the Allegheny and Ohio rivers to Pittsburg, Cincinnati, and Louisville. He remained their confidential agent until the beginning of the war, when, on Aug. 7, 1861, in a letter to his friend, Hon. John MANLEY, he said:
"Deeming it to be the duty of every young man in these days of his country's peril to render her every help in his power, and that the most effectual service which can be given is to volunteer to fight her battles, I am resolved to join those already in the field and stand by them in this struggle for the constitution and laws."

Young FULLER entered the army a private in Co. F, 64th N. Y. Vols., on Sept. 10, 1861, and at Elmira he was promoted orderly-sergeant. At the election of line officers he was chosen second lieutenant and commissioned Dec. 10th. After the battle of Fair Oaks he was promoted first lieutenant July 23, 1862. He passed through the Seven Days of the Peninsula, the Pope campaign, Antietam, and Fredericksburg, and for meritorious service was promoted captain Dec. 30, 1862. Chancellorsville was fought May 1st, 2d, and 3d; this was followed, on the 1st 2d, and 3d of July, 1863, by the bloody battle of Gettysburg, where, on the second day, Captain FULLER fell. His body was recovered on the morning of July 4th, was conveyed to his home, and was buried with military honors. Under the authority of the laws of New York, 1865, the first brevet honor was bestowed by Gov. FENTON, that of brevet-colonel, in memoriam, for Capt. Henry V. FULLER. Colonel FULLER was endowed with superior mental powers. He possessed a manly physique, stood six feet high, and had a handsome face, clear gray eyes, and brown hair.

" Duice et deQorum est pro patria mori."

Dec. 24, 1860, he married Adelaide C., daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Lyman TWOMLEY, of Little Valley, a lady of culture and energy who has held the position of postmistress several years. Their son, Henry Twomley FULLER, of striking resemblance to his father, was born May 19, 1862. He is a druggist.

* This sketch of-the brave and gallant Colonel FULLER is condensed from a biography written by his friend, Hon. John MANLEY.