Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... Barber, Randall & Fuller
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

BARBER, RANDALL & FULLER, attorneys at law, Joliet; this firm, although existing as a firm 
only since January, 1877, is composed of some of the oldest and most prominent members of 
the Will County bar. Hon. R. E. BARBER was born in Rutland Co., Vt., in 1822 at the age of 
10 years, he came with his father's family to Will Co.; he read law in Joliet, and was 
admitted to the bar in 1847; in 1852, he was elected Clerk of the Circuit Court of Will 
County, holding the office until 1856 ; he has been a member of the Board of School Inspectors 
some ten years; in 1876, he was chosen Mayor of Joliet, and served one term. Hon. S. W. 
RANDALL is a native of Hoosick Falls, Rensselaer Co., N. Y.; he was born March 23, 1808, 
but removed to Fredonia, Chautauqua Co., when about 9 years of age; be was educated at the 
public schools and at Fredonia Academy; at the age of 16, he began as an apprentice to learn 
the printer's trade, and worked two years on the Fredonia CENSOR; he afterward removed to 
Franklin, Venango Co., Penn., and began reading law in the office of Judge Galbraith, and 
afterward with the late Chief Justice THOMPSON, in.the mean time teaching school and working 
at the printer's trade; he was admitted to the bar in 1834, and, in 1835, removed to Erie, 
Penn., and engaged in practicing law and in editing the Erie Observer; in 1843, he came to 
Joliet, and engaged in the practice of his profession; he was elected Judge of the Circuit 
Court in ___, and served ___ years; in 1850, he was elected to the State Legislature, and has 
held other offices of trust and responsibility. Buel A. FULLER was born in Coles Co., Ill., 
Aug. 8, 1833; his parents removed to Danville, Ill., in 1835, and about five years later to 
Perryville, Ind.; there he entered a printing oflice, working during the day, and attending 
school evenings; about 1848, at the age of 15, he engaged in publishing the Temperance Journal 
and Son's Companion in Danville, Ill., the first temperance paper in the State; he afterward 
went to Louisville, Ky., and thence to Madison, Ind., as foremen on the Madison Courier; in 
1852, he came to Joliet, and became joint-owner and publisher of the True Democrat with Alexander 
MCINTOSH; after awhile, his health failing, he retired from the newspaper business, but resumed 
it again in 1856 as publisher of the Kankakee Democrat; in the mean time he had been pursuing the 
study of law, and, in 1857, was admitted to the bar in Joliet; the next year he was elected City 
Attorney, serving two terms. The integrity, affability and modesty of all these gentlemen are so 
well known in Will Co., as to require no mention here.


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HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

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