Melville W. Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1888

Melville W. Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1888
Identifier: americanaunivers07newy (find matches)
Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Nagle, an Arizonacowboy, who was made a United States marshalto protect the person of Chief Justice Field, andwho while performing this duty, shot and killedJudge Terry, of California. In 1899 Justice Fuller was a member of theArbitration Commission convened at Paris forthe adjustment of the Venezuela boundary ques-tion. Fuller, Sarah Margaret. See Ossoli, S.\rah M.\RGAI<ET, M.XKCHIONESS d. Fuller, Thomas, English historian and.\nglican: b. Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire,June 1608; d. London 16 Aug. 1661. He wasgraduated from Queens College, Cambridge. In1630 took orders and was appointed perpetualcurate of St. Benets parish, Cambridge, and be-came very popular as a preacher. In 1631 hebecame prebend in the cathedral of Salisbury.The same year he published a poem entitledDavids hainous Sin. heartie Repentance, andheavie Punishment. He gave up his Cambridgecuracy in 1633, and next year became rector ofBroadwindsor, Dorsetshire. His History of theHoly Ware appeared 1639, soon after the
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MELVILLE WESTON FULLER. CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, iS FULLER-MAITLAND — FULMAR publication of which he removed to Lon-don, and was chosen lecturer at theSavoy Church in the Strand. In 1642he published his Holy and Profane State(folio). In 1650 he published Pisgah Sight ofPalestine and the Confines thereof, with the His-tory of the Old and New Testament acted there-on (folio), and in 1650 appeared his *AbelRedivivus, consisting of lives of religious re-formers, martyrs, divines, etc. In 1655 he pub-lished the Church History of Britain, from theBirth of Jesus Christ to the Year 1648 ; towhich was subjoined the History of the Uni-versity of Cambridge since the Conquest, andthe History of Waltham Abbey. The yearafter his death was published his principal liter-ary work, the Worthies of England —a pro-duction vahiable alike for the solid informationit afiford.s relative to the provincial history of thecountry and for the profusion of biographicalanecdote and acut