JOSEPH FULLER.

    Joseph Fuller, who is engaged in the furniture and undertaking business at Cokeville, belongs in that class of progressive business men who are the real promoters and upbuilders of the state of Wyoming, carefully directing their business affairs, and at the same time casting the weight of their influence upon the side of public progress and activity.
    Mr. Fuller was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, August 27, 1867. His father, Thomas Fuller, was a native of Germany but came to America prior to the Civil war and settled in Pittsburgh, where for many years he made his home. For an extended period he was connected with the Standard Oil Company but is now living retired and makes his home in Bellevue, Ohio. In early manhood he wedded Barbara Wills, a native of Germany, who came with her husband to the new world. To them were born seven children, Joseph being the third in order of birth. The mother has passed away, her death having occurred in January, 1912, when she was seventy-two years of age.
    Joseph Fuller was educated in the public schools at Parkers Landing, Pennsylvania, and when a youth of seventeen left home to provide for his own support. He is a self-made man in the fullest sense of the term, for from that age he has depended entirely upon his own resources and whatever prosperity has come to him is the direct result of persistent labor intelligently directed. On leaving the east he removed to Helena, Montana, where he was in the employ of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in connection with the transportation department. He continued with that road until 1888, after which he made his way to the Pacific coast and was with the Northern Pacific Railroad Company at various points, including Seattle and Portland. He next removed to Montpelier, Idaho, where he was representative for the New York Life Insurance Company for three years. On leaving that state he became a resident of Cokeville, Wyoming, where he took up his abode in the spring of 1905. Here he originally engaged in the liquor business and in 1916 he established his present store, opening a full line of furniture and undertaking supplies. Since concentrating his attention upon this business he has enjoyed a growing trade and today is accorded a very liberal patronage. This was not his first venture along this line, for while in Montpelier he also conducted a furniture and undertaking establishment for three years and was thus well qualified by practical experience for the duties and activities which now claim his attention. His business methods commend him to the confidence and support of the public and he is enjoying a rapidly growing trade.
    Mr. Fuller was married in Montpelier, Idaho, in 1883 to Miss Nellie Doyle and to them have been born six children, Barbara, Joe, Marie, Irene, Stanley and Ruth. The daughter Irene is now the wife of James Reddy, of Pocatello. Idaho. Joseph, Jr., has enlisted in the United States Marine service.
    Mr. Fuller is a democrat and at one time served as city councilman of Cokeville. He was also one of the most active workers in the installation of the city water works and has taken a helpful part in promoting many public achievements which have greatly benefited the city and upheld its civic standards. He was made a Mason in Montpelier, holding membership in King Solomon Lodge, No. 27, A. F. & A. M. He also became a member of Montpelier Camp, No. 167, W. O. W. At all times his aid and influence are on the side of progress and improvement along material, social and political lines. He is today one of the most progressive business men of Cokeville, where he carries a complete line of furniture and in the undertaking department he has a full equipment, having a morgue, a hearse and everything necessary for the fitting conduct of funerals. In his business affairs he has at all times been actuated by a spirit of unfaltering industry and enterprise and he never stops short of the successful accomplishment of his purpose.


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