Storekeeper in De Smet.
He married Chloe T. Dow on 26 Feb 1883. They had four known children: Robert Cannings Fuller, Claud E. Fuller, Charleton Fuller and Jack Glendon Fuller.
Born in England and raised in New York, Charleton Fuller moved to Chicago after attending college, working for Marshall Field & Co. In 1879, Charleton Fuller and Chicago merchant Andrew Dox followed the railroad west and opened a hardware store on the west side of Main Street in Brookings, Dakota Territory. It was called "Fuller & Dox."
In March 1880, Charleton traveled to the De Smet townsite and decided to put in a store there. He built on a corner lot directly across from the Ingallses. For a while, Dox mainly ran the Brookings store and Charleton the De Smet one. They advertised "Cooking stoves, a good one with 40 pieces of furniture, $22.50."
Gerald Fuller soon joined his brother in De Smet, running the store when Charleton had to be in Brookings or on buying trips to Chicago. During the Hard Winter, Jake Hopp's printing press occupied a back corner of the hardware store and he slept on boards across rafters overhead. Almanzo Wilder's cousin, Chet Lamson, set up a commercial coffee grinder in Fuller's store and he and Gerald ground wheat into flour on demand. That spring, Gerald was said to rush out into the middle of Calumet to shoot at flocks of geese flying overhead.
During the Hard Winter, Andrew Dox and Charleton Fuller dissolved their partnership and, in 1882, Charleton took his brother as partner. The store then became known as "C.S.G. Fuller & Brother."
Charleton married Chloe Dow in 1883. Gerald Fuller married Luella Burns the same year. In 1891, Gerald Fuller moved to California – he sold his homestead for $1000 to be used as the County Poor Farm; his land remained the Poor Farm until the 1960s – and Charleton changed the name of the hardware store "C.S.G. Fuller." It wasn't until around 1902 that he branched out into operation of a full-fledged department store, changing the name to the "De Smet Mercantile Company." The store building filled the lot at 25 by 165 feet with a second story 25 by 70 feet. Following Charleton Fuller's death in 1905, Chloe Fuller managed the business for a few years, but she moved to Minneapolis, where she died in 1916. Both are buried in the De Smet Cemetery.
[from www.pioneergirl.com/blog/archives/2498]
He married Chloe T. Dow on 26 Feb 1883. They had four known children: Robert Cannings Fuller, Claud E. Fuller, Charleton Fuller and Jack Glendon Fuller.
Born in England and raised in New York, Charleton Fuller moved to Chicago after attending college, working for Marshall Field & Co. In 1879, Charleton Fuller and Chicago merchant Andrew Dox followed the railroad west and opened a hardware store on the west side of Main Street in Brookings, Dakota Territory. It was called "Fuller & Dox."
In March 1880, Charleton traveled to the De Smet townsite and decided to put in a store there. He built on a corner lot directly across from the Ingallses. For a while, Dox mainly ran the Brookings store and Charleton the De Smet one. They advertised "Cooking stoves, a good one with 40 pieces of furniture, $22.50."
Gerald Fuller soon joined his brother in De Smet, running the store when Charleton had to be in Brookings or on buying trips to Chicago. During the Hard Winter, Jake Hopp's printing press occupied a back corner of the hardware store and he slept on boards across rafters overhead. Almanzo Wilder's cousin, Chet Lamson, set up a commercial coffee grinder in Fuller's store and he and Gerald ground wheat into flour on demand. That spring, Gerald was said to rush out into the middle of Calumet to shoot at flocks of geese flying overhead.
During the Hard Winter, Andrew Dox and Charleton Fuller dissolved their partnership and, in 1882, Charleton took his brother as partner. The store then became known as "C.S.G. Fuller & Brother."
Charleton married Chloe Dow in 1883. Gerald Fuller married Luella Burns the same year. In 1891, Gerald Fuller moved to California – he sold his homestead for $1000 to be used as the County Poor Farm; his land remained the Poor Farm until the 1960s – and Charleton changed the name of the hardware store "C.S.G. Fuller." It wasn't until around 1902 that he branched out into operation of a full-fledged department store, changing the name to the "De Smet Mercantile Company." The store building filled the lot at 25 by 165 feet with a second story 25 by 70 feet. Following Charleton Fuller's death in 1905, Chloe Fuller managed the business for a few years, but she moved to Minneapolis, where she died in 1916. Both are buried in the De Smet Cemetery.
[from www.pioneergirl.com/blog/archives/2498]
Storekeeper in De Smet.
He married Chloe T. Dow on 26 Feb 1883. They had four known children: Robert Cannings Fuller, Claud E. Fuller, Charleton Fuller and Jack Glendon Fuller.
Born in England and raised in New York, Charleton Fuller moved to Chicago after attending college, working for Marshall Field & Co. In 1879, Charleton Fuller and Chicago merchant Andrew Dox followed the railroad west and opened a hardware store on the west side of Main Street in Brookings, Dakota Territory. It was called "Fuller & Dox."
In March 1880, Charleton traveled to the De Smet townsite and decided to put in a store there. He built on a corner lot directly across from the Ingallses. For a while, Dox mainly ran the Brookings store and Charleton the De Smet one. They advertised "Cooking stoves, a good one with 40 pieces of furniture, $22.50."
Gerald Fuller soon joined his brother in De Smet, running the store when Charleton had to be in Brookings or on buying trips to Chicago. During the Hard Winter, Jake Hopp's printing press occupied a back corner of the hardware store and he slept on boards across rafters overhead. Almanzo Wilder's cousin, Chet Lamson, set up a commercial coffee grinder in Fuller's store and he and Gerald ground wheat into flour on demand. That spring, Gerald was said to rush out into the middle of Calumet to shoot at flocks of geese flying overhead.
During the Hard Winter, Andrew Dox and Charleton Fuller dissolved their partnership and, in 1882, Charleton took his brother as partner. The store then became known as "C.S.G. Fuller & Brother."
Charleton married Chloe Dow in 1883. Gerald Fuller married Luella Burns the same year. In 1891, Gerald Fuller moved to California – he sold his homestead for $1000 to be used as the County Poor Farm; his land remained the Poor Farm until the 1960s – and Charleton changed the name of the hardware store "C.S.G. Fuller." It wasn't until around 1902 that he branched out into operation of a full-fledged department store, changing the name to the "De Smet Mercantile Company." The store building filled the lot at 25 by 165 feet with a second story 25 by 70 feet. Following Charleton Fuller's death in 1905, Chloe Fuller managed the business for a few years, but she moved to Minneapolis, where she died in 1916. Both are buried in the De Smet Cemetery.
[from www.pioneergirl.com/blog/archives/2498]
He married Chloe T. Dow on 26 Feb 1883. They had four known children: Robert Cannings Fuller, Claud E. Fuller, Charleton Fuller and Jack Glendon Fuller.
Born in England and raised in New York, Charleton Fuller moved to Chicago after attending college, working for Marshall Field & Co. In 1879, Charleton Fuller and Chicago merchant Andrew Dox followed the railroad west and opened a hardware store on the west side of Main Street in Brookings, Dakota Territory. It was called "Fuller & Dox."
In March 1880, Charleton traveled to the De Smet townsite and decided to put in a store there. He built on a corner lot directly across from the Ingallses. For a while, Dox mainly ran the Brookings store and Charleton the De Smet one. They advertised "Cooking stoves, a good one with 40 pieces of furniture, $22.50."
Gerald Fuller soon joined his brother in De Smet, running the store when Charleton had to be in Brookings or on buying trips to Chicago. During the Hard Winter, Jake Hopp's printing press occupied a back corner of the hardware store and he slept on boards across rafters overhead. Almanzo Wilder's cousin, Chet Lamson, set up a commercial coffee grinder in Fuller's store and he and Gerald ground wheat into flour on demand. That spring, Gerald was said to rush out into the middle of Calumet to shoot at flocks of geese flying overhead.
During the Hard Winter, Andrew Dox and Charleton Fuller dissolved their partnership and, in 1882, Charleton took his brother as partner. The store then became known as "C.S.G. Fuller & Brother."
Charleton married Chloe Dow in 1883. Gerald Fuller married Luella Burns the same year. In 1891, Gerald Fuller moved to California – he sold his homestead for $1000 to be used as the County Poor Farm; his land remained the Poor Farm until the 1960s – and Charleton changed the name of the hardware store "C.S.G. Fuller." It wasn't until around 1902 that he branched out into operation of a full-fledged department store, changing the name to the "De Smet Mercantile Company." The store building filled the lot at 25 by 165 feet with a second story 25 by 70 feet. Following Charleton Fuller's death in 1905, Chloe Fuller managed the business for a few years, but she moved to Minneapolis, where she died in 1916. Both are buried in the De Smet Cemetery.
[from www.pioneergirl.com/blog/archives/2498]
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