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HORACE S. FULLER
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,
Nebraska, 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, California.
Horace
S. Fuller began his education in the grammar school in Crete, Nebraska, and
finished at the Doane College of that city.
In York, Nebraska, he was married to Miss May Harrison, a native of
Springfield, Nebraska, 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
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, California. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Elks of
St. Joseph, Missouri, the Masons of Oxford, Nebraska, the Chapter and
Commandery of York, Nebraska, is a thirty-second degree Mason of Stockton and
belongs to the Aahmes Temple, Oakland, California, 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.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1633-1634. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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