- Alfred Fuller
:"For the Black American businessman, see
Samuel B. Fuller "Alfred Carl Fuller (January 13 ,1885 – December, 1973) was a Canadian-born American businessman. He was the original "Fuller Brush Man." Fuller was born on anAnnapolis Valley farm in Welsford,Kings County, Nova Scotia . He moved toBoston, Massachusetts in 1903 at the age of 18 to live with his sister. A few years later, with a $75.00 investment, he started theFuller Brush Company inHartford, Connecticut , selling brushes door to door. By 1919, the company had achieved sales of more than $1 million per year. Fuller Brush went on to be recognized throughout the continent, remaining in the Fuller family’s hands until 1969, when the company merged with Consolidated Foods. [http://www.consolidatedfoodsinc.com/ Consolidated Foods]He maintained a lifelong connection with his native Nova Scotia, buying a home in Yarmouth, where he and his family spent most summers.
He is buried at Pleasant Valley Cemetery in
Somerset, Nova Scotia , near his birthplace in Welsford.References
External links
* [http://ns1763.ca/kingsco/fullermon.html Nova Scotia's Electric Scrapbook: Alfred Carl Fuller Memorial] (photographs of his grave marker in Somerset)
* [http://www.fuller.com/about.asp Fuller Brush Company: About Fuller Brush] (some biographical data and a photograph)
* [http://www.myfullerbrush.com/history.htm Alfred C. Fuller, The Original Fuller Brush Man] ( More on the Fuller Brush Man and his company)
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