Benjamin Apthorp Gould Fuller

In 1910 he traveled around the world, visiting Kashmir, northern and central India, Assam, Burma, Java, and Japan, developing "the habit of never taking a ticket further than the next stop, and came to the realization that life is much too short to hurry.

"[4] He was commissioned as an infantry captain in the United States Army during World War I and served from 1917 to 1919.

During this time, he was assigned to the staff of General Tasker H. Bliss in the American Section of the Supreme War Council at Versailles from January 1918 to June 1919.

[5] In 1923 Henry Holt & Co. published his History of Greek Philosophy, Thales to Democritus.

[2] Fuller maintained a home in the Hollywood Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles from 1932 until his death.

The Allied War Council at the home of General Tasker H. Bliss at Versailles , France, May 1918. Captain B. A. G. Fuller is stood in the fourth row, second from the left.