Percy J. Fuller
Fuller has an entry among index cards kept by Nathaniel R. Perkins, MD, who examined thousands of men who were going into the war, 1914-1918. Given by Mrs N. R. Perkins in accordance with instructions from her late husband, Dr. Nathaniel P. Perkins of 1122 Adams St, Dorchester.
Percy J. Fuller 14 Johnson Place, Dorchester. Enlisted Apr 27, 1917. Naval Reserve. Went to Hammond Radio then to U.S.S. Curanie 1st class radio electrician
Percy Delmont Fuller was born in Boston on January 12, 1899 to Russell D. Fuller and Nellie W. (Chandler) Fuller. The 1900 census shows the family was living at 32 Oakridge Street, Dorchester. Russell was a millhand at a chocolate factory. Percy had a sister 2 years older named Edith. In 1910 they were still at 32 Oakridge Street, and sometime in the 19 teens they moved to 14 Monson Street in Lower Mills.
Percy graduated from Dorchester High School in June 1917. He had already enlisted in the US Naval Reserve Force in April, 1917, and served first at the Cruft Lab at Harvard University, then aboard ships USS Bridge and USS Cuyama. The Cruft Laboratory, originally called the Cruft High Tension Laboratory, was designed in 1915 to support research on antennas and storage batteries. Percy was discharged on April 26, 1921.
The 1920 census shows the family still living at Monson Street, and in the next few years Percy went to school to become an engineer. The 1926 Boston resident list is the first, in which he has the occupation engineer. By 1928, the family moved elsewhere.
The 1930 census shows Percy working as an engineer at a manufacturing company. By 1930 he had married a woman named Edna, probably Edna R. Pyne or Pine. They lived at 63 Plain Street, Braintree. In 1940 Percy was an Assistant Port Engineer for the United Fruit Steamship Company, and Percy and Edna lived at 147 Drake Avenue, New York, NY with their son Robert C. Fuller, who was 9 years old.
Edna died in New York in 1947. At some point Percy remarried a woman named Ruth. She died in 1981, and Percy died on January 23, 1984. Percy and Ruth are buried in Woodlawn Park Cemetery South, Miami Florida.
Sources:
Boston annual resident lists.
Boston Globe, June 22, 1917, on Newspapers.com
FindaGrave.com
US Census 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940 on Ancestry.com
US Veterans Administration Master Index on Ancestry.com
WW I service appears in a typescript. Military, Compiled Service Records. World War I. Carded Records. Records of the Military Division of the Adjutant General’s Office, Massachusetts National Guard.