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| − | |alma_mater=[[Minden (Louisiana) High School]]<br> (then Minden Male Academy)<br> | + | |alma_mater=[[Minden (Louisiana) High School]] (then Minden Male Academy) |
| | Centenary College of Louisiana}} | | Centenary College of Louisiana}} |
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| | Fuller was the fifth of six children born to a planter, [[attorney]], [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] captain, and district attorney, Thomas Walker Fuller (1828–1896), a native of Houston County, [[Georgia]]. His mother was the former Margaret A. Wafer (1832–1880) of then Claiborne Parish, from which Webster Parish was severed in 1871. Margaret Fuller was a graduate of the former Minden Female College.<ref name=twfuller/> Thomas Walker and Margaret Wafer Fuller are interred in the former Fuller Memorial Shrine Cemetery behind West Union Street in Minden.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSmpid=47481233&GRid=14323994&|title=Capt. Thomas W. Fuller|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=March 21, 2020}}</ref> | | Fuller was the fifth of six children born to a planter, [[attorney]], [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] captain, and district attorney, Thomas Walker Fuller (1828–1896), a native of Houston County, [[Georgia]]. His mother was the former Margaret A. Wafer (1832–1880) of then Claiborne Parish, from which Webster Parish was severed in 1871. Margaret Fuller was a graduate of the former Minden Female College.<ref name=twfuller/> Thomas Walker and Margaret Wafer Fuller are interred in the former Fuller Memorial Shrine Cemetery behind West Union Street in Minden.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSmpid=47481233&GRid=14323994&|title=Capt. Thomas W. Fuller|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=March 21, 2020}}</ref> |
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| − | Fuller attended the former Minden Male Academy, a forerunner to [[Minden (Louisiana) High School]]. In 1890, he graduated at the age of twenty-three from the [[Methodist]]-affiliated Centenary College, then in Jackson in East Feliciana Parish and subsequently relocated to [[Shreveport]], where one of his classmates was future [[Governor]] Oramel H. Simpson.<ref> For a time, Fuller taught school in Sibley, a [[rural]] community south of Minden.<ref name=jagan/> | + | Fuller attended the former Minden Male Academy, a forerunner to [[Minden (Louisiana) High School]]. In 1890, he graduated at the age of twenty-three from the [[Methodist]]-affiliated Centenary College, then in Jackson in East Feliciana Parish and subsequently relocated to [[Shreveport]], where one of his classmates was future [[Governor]] Oramel Hinckley Simpson (1870-1032). For a time, Fuller taught school in Sibley, a [[rural]] community south of Minden.<ref name=jagan/> |
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