Oliver Clyde Fuller

Oliver Clyde Fuller (1860–1942) was an American banker, financier, and golfer.

Fuller was a descendant of American Revolutionary War Generals, Tennessee Governor John Sevier, and French royalty.^{[citation needed]} He graduated from the University of Georgia (BS, 1880). In 1881 he married Kate Fitzhugh Caswell, and they had six children. Fuller and Caswell took over management of her father's estate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

In 1891 he moved to Milwaukee, and in 1893 founded the O. C. Fuller Co., an investment firm. In 1903 he founded and became president of the Wisconsin Trust Co., which took over the Fuller Co. He was a leader in the creation of the First Wisconsin Group, a bank and trust firm, serving as president of the First Wisconsin National Bank, the First Wisconsin Trust Co., and the First Wisconsin Co., which later became Firstar Corporation, which in turn became U.S. Bancorp in 2001. Fuller was also treasurer and trustee of Forest Home Cemetery, which was run by St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

Active in many businesses and athletic clubs, Fuller was a trustee of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., and a director of the Wisconsin Telephone Co., Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., Milwaukee Gas Light Co., Wisconsin Securities Co., Wisconsin Public Service Co., Milwaukee Mechanics Insurance Co., Milwaukee Refrigerator Transit Co., and the Milwaukee Auditorium Co. He was a member of council of American Bankers' Association, 1908-10; elected to chairmanship of executive committee of the Trust Company Section, American Bankers' Association, 1908; vice president, 1909; and president, 1910. He was also involved in the Wisconsin Society Sons of American Revolution (formerly president); Wisconsin Society of Colonial Wars, Phi Delta Theta Society of the University of Georgia. He retired from business life in 1926.

Fuller was an avid golfer, credited with helping bring the game to the Midwest. He was a founder and President of various Milwaukee golf, tennis, yacht and athletic clubs. An article in The American Golfer in 1915 called him a pioneer golfer in the Cream City.^{[citation needed]}

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Name	Fuller, Oliver Clyde
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Date of birth	1860
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Date of death	1942
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