John J. Fuller

A STUDY IN PERSONALITY OF JOHN J. FULLER.

Among the representative men of Weiser it is fitting we should include between these covers a young man who has done yeoman work during his residence here in the past six years in the development and upbuilding of Weiser. But the most notable monument to his efforts meanwhile is the Fuller (block) Building, just completed at a cost of $10,000, a magnificent two story brick business block which greatly augments the architectural beauty of Weiser and which would be an ornament to any city in Idaho. Mr. Fuller has likewise demonstrated his faith in the future of Weiser by making large investments, investing his all indeed, in Weiser dirt. And safe it is to say he has not invested blindly for he is on intimate terms with the powers which hold the destinies of his home region in the palms of their hands. Mr. Fuller confesses to forty three years of age and his birthplace was Dale county, Alabama. There he secured a public school education. His father was a merchant and merchandising became the first business of his life and for some fifteen years prior to linking with Weiser he pursued the clothing and merchant tailoring business at Ocala, Florida the birthplace of populism, and where the first national convention of the populist party was held. Mr. Fuller, by the by, although completely environed by the epidemic of populism remained a true Democrat and for two terms was county treasurer of Citrus County Florida.

In about 1901 there was a subject that engrossed his attention to the exclusion of about everything else. This subject was Miss Anna Powell of Monmouth, Oregon but then teaching school in Weiser, and whom on Dec 25 of that year, he brought as a bride to illuminate his home. And Robert Augustas, and Helen, have come to play around their fireside.

Mr. Fuller is a Mason and a Woodman of the world and in good standing.

He is one of the strong young men of Weiser to whom enterprise and honesty are engraved. A man who believes in the principles that towns do not grow by acting on the principle of what they have never had they will never miss. He is a man who has made and is making a stubborn fight for success. Any word such men as Mr. Fuller are the hope of the future of any town, as they are the strength of the new state. The great Interstate Steal Wagon Bridge at Weiser was made possible by the contribution of money, energy, and public spirit of just such man as he and all that Weiser is destined to be such men as he will make it.

From The Weiser Semi-Weekly Signal – February 15, 1905 – Page 7