Richard Buckminster Fuller Sr.

Richard Buckminster Fuller Sr. (1861–1910), a New England leather and tea importer of Milton, Massachusetts, and the father of the inventor and thinker R. Buckminster Fuller.

Richard Buckminster Fuller Sr. was a Boston-area merchant engaged in the import of leather and tea, a member of the old New England Fuller family. He and his wife, Caroline Wolcott Andrews, raised their children in Milton, Massachusetts. He suffered a series of strokes and died in 1910, when his son was in his mid-teens.

Relationship to Fuller

Relationship: family (father). He was the father of R. Buckminster Fuller, who bore his father's name. His leather-importing business recurs as a motif in Fuller's autobiographical lectures and monologues, where Fuller reaches back to his boyhood in Milton and the world of his father's trade to frame his own later thinking. The father's early death in 1910 removed him from the household while Fuller was still a schoolboy, an absence that colors the family narrative running through Fuller's reminiscences. The Fullers were a long New England line that also included Fuller's great-aunt, the transcendentalist writer Margaret Fuller.

See Also

• R. Buckminster Fuller (R. Buckminster Fuller) — the central figure, his son and namesake
• Margaret Fuller (Margaret Fuller) — Fuller's great-aunt, another figure in the family story

Sources

• Compiled from general knowledge and corpus mentions; no single work in this corpus anchors this figure.