San Joaquin County Biographies
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FULLER LUMBER COMPANY
One of the leading factors in the lumber and building material trade of Lodi is the Fuller Lumber Company, operated under the personal direction of Horace S. Fuller, president and manager, a lumber specialist of twenty-eight years experience, who is familiar with every detail and requirement of the trade. Extensive yards, offices and mills, the latter known as the Lodi Mill & Manufacturing Company, are maintained, where every modern convenience is offered customers. The company handles everything in lumber, rough and dressed products; building materials, shingles, mouldings, etc., in small or carload lots. Contractors and builders are offered every aid consistent with modern business methods, plans are carefully gone over and checked up, and courteous treatment is given all wants. Horace S. Fuller, president and manager of the Fuller Lumber Company, is a wide-awake booster for the upbuilding and development of Lodi and the country surrounding. He was born in Crete, Neb., June 18, 1874, a son of Horace S. and Louisa Fuller, both natives of Ohio. The father moved to Nebraska in an early day, where he engaged in the lumber business and in time owned and operated sixteen lumber yards throughout the state. In 1890 the father came to California, where he purchased a twenty-acre vineyard at Martinez, but was not content to remain in the West. He returned to Nebraska, where he had spent so many active years of his life, and lived to be seventy-one years old; the mother is still living in the Nebraska home. There were five children in their family: Emma, Mrs. Dean, resides in Chicago; Robert S. died in Lodi, January 5, 1920; Horace S. of this sketch; Jess P. resides in Wyoming and George B. resides at Santa Rosa, Cal.
Horace S. Fuller began his education in the grammar school in Crete, Neb., and finished at the Doane College of that city. In York, Neb., he was married to Miss May Harrison, a native of Springfield, Neb., daughter of George Murray and Saraetta (Jackman) Harrison, both natives of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. The father is deceased, but the mother is still living. There are three daughters in the family, Nell, Mrs. May Fuller, and Grace. Mr. and Mrs. Fuller are the parents of one son, Horace Stevens, third. In 1909 the Young Lumber Company was purchased by Horace S. Fuller and George L. Meissner and operated under the firm name of Fuller-Meissner Company and the following year, 1910, the corporate name became the Fuller Lumber Company with Robert S. Fuller as manager, who remained in this capacity until his death on January 5, 1920. After the death of Robert S. Fuller, Horace S. Fuller became president and manager of the company. Mr. Fuller is also interested with his uncle, R.P. Fuller, in a lumber business in Manteca, Cal. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the Elks of St. Joseph, Mo., the Masons of Oxford, Neb., the Chapter and Commandery of York, Neb., is a thirty-second degree Mason of Stockton and belongs to the Aahmes Temple, Oakland, Cal., the Rotary Club, the order of lumbermen known as the Hoo-Hoo lodge, being president of the Sacramento Valley division of this order; and is a member of the Central California Lumbermen's Club and the California Lumbermen's Association.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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