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 an Annapolis Valley farm in Welsford, Kings County, Nova Scotia. He moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1903 at the age of 18 to live with his sister. A few years later, with a $75.00 investment, he started the Fuller Brush Company in Hartford, 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.

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* [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)