Fuller (Solomon Carter) is born in Liberia.

Solomon Carter Fuller emigrates to the U.S. at 17, graduates from Livingstone College in North Carolina, and comes to Boston in approximately 1893 to attend the Boston University School of Medicine. The first African-American psychiatrist in the U.S., Fuller marries sculptor Meta Vaux Warrick in 1909 and moves to Framingham, practices at the Westborough Insane Hospital and , and serves as a professor of neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine. He becomes an expert in schizophrenia and alcoholism, participates in a conference with Alfred Adler, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung at Clark University in 1909, and conducts research with Dr. Alois Alzheimer at the University of Munich. He retires in 1932 and dies in Framingham on January 16, 1953.