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Entrepreneur Alfred Carl Fuller, the eleventh child of Leander and Phebe (Collins) Fuller, was born at Welsford, Kings County, N.S., on 13 January 1885. Fuller moved to Boston in 1903 where he lived with his sister and worked odd jobs including one as a salesman for the Somerville Brush and Mop Company. By 1906 he began manufacturing and selling his own household brushes. After four months, he moved his operations in April 1906 to Hartford, Conn. under the name Capitol Brush Company. The company was re-named the Fuller Brush Company in 1913. Fuller originally sold his brushes door to door; as the company grew and became known world-wide, he served as president until 1943 followed by chairman of the board of directors. In 1969 the company merged with Consolidated Foods Inc. and left family hands. Fuller and his first wife, Evelyn (Ells) of Welsford, married 1908 at Somerville, Mass., had two sons, Howard and Avard, who became the second and third presidents of the Fuller Brush Company. He married his second wife, Mary Primrose (Pelton), of Yarmouth, N.S., at New York in 1932. Fuller's biography, A Foot in the Door: The Life Appraisal of the Original Fuller Brush Man, as Told to Hartzell Spence was published in 1960. He died on 4 December 1973 at Hartford.