His father, also named Timothy, the first settled minister of Princeton, Massachusetts, was third in descent, from Thomas,[1] who emigrated from England in 1638.

He was an ardent supporter of John Quincy Adams, and published a pamphlet entitled "The Election for the Presidency Considered," which was widely circulated.

[3] and, through Arthur's brother Richard Frederick Fuller, the great-great-great-grandfather of US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

[4] He died suddenly of cholera, intestate and insolvent,[2] in Groton, Massachusetts, on October 1, 1835, and was interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.

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