Albert Homer Fuller
Albert Homer Fuller, born in 1841 in Massachusetts, was a teacher when the Civil War broke out. He enlisted and served with the One Hundred and Eighteenth Illinois Infantry until the end of the war, retiring as Second Lieutenant. After the war, Fuller came to St. Louis and entered the office of his uncle, Dr. Homer Judd, as a student of medicine and dentistry. Fuller graduated in 1871 from both the St. Louis Medical College and the Missouri Dental College with degrees in both medicine and dentistry.
Upon his graduation Fuller was appointed demonstrator of Surgical and Operative Dentistry at the Missouri Dental College. In 1874 he was elected professor of Mechanical Dentistry, and in 1879 professor of Operative Dentistry. From 1873 until 1899 Fuller served as secretary of the Faculty, and in November 1899 at the death of Dr. H. H. Mudd, Fuller was elected dean of the faculty. In 1901 Fuller resigned as dean and from the faculty, and was made emeritus professor of Operative Dentistry.
Fuller joined the Missouri State Dental Association in 1871 and served as its president in 1878. He retired from the practice of medicine in 1909 and died in 1912.