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SB FULLER

sb fuller. Millionaire from robbbins il

BORN IN POVERTY

Mr. Fuller, who was born in Monroe, La., and reared in poverty, had only six years of formal education. But he built a multi-million-dollar conglomerate of companies that had sales of more than $10 million a year and offices in 38 states in the 1950's and early 1960's.

Mr. Fuller's mother, who died when he was 17 years old, convinced him that the best way out of poverty was through door-to-door sales. 

He hitchhiked to Chicago and became a salesman but found, he said in a 1963 interview, 

''that I could not get ahead working for somebody else.''

In 1935 Mr. Fuller started his company, the Fuller Products Company, with $25, buying soap and then selling it door to door. He later used these sales techniques to offer 30 items of a little-known line of cosmetics. His business grew and he began producing his own cosmetics and allied products, which became nationally known. Newspapers and Real Estate

By 1963 Fuller Products had more than 3,000 sales representatives in 38 states and Mr. Fuller controlled eight other corporations, including a department store in Chicago, a real estate trust in New York, farming and cattle interests and the Courier chain of newspapers serving black audiences in Chicago, New York, Detroit and Pittsburgh.

Mr. Fuller, who was born in Monroe, La., and reared in poverty, had only six years of formal education. But he built a multi-million-dollar conglomerate of companies that had sales of more than $10 million a year and offices in 38 states in the 1950's and early 1960's.

HIS HOME IN ROBBINS

FULLER MANSION BUILT IN 1958 at a cost of $250.000-$300.000.

$300,000 in 1958 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $2,833,941.18 today, an increase of $2,533,941.18 over 63 years.

ROBBINS, ILLINOIS 60472  

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  · 1905  Born into a family of poor Louisiana sharecroppers 

  • · Dropped out of the sixth grade
  • · 1928  hitchhiked to Chicago 
  • · 1928  Using a $25 loan he obtained by using his car as a security deposit, he started his own business.
  • · 1929  Incorporated, Fuller Products Company
  • · 1939  Fuller opened his own factory
  • · 1947 Fuller acquired Boyer International Laboratories, a white cosmetics manufacturer
  • · 1962  He purchased black newspapers such as the Pittsburgh Courier and the New York Age.
  • · 1959 Fuller had built a $250,000 12-room dream house in Robbins, Illinois, where he and his wife lived alone. The suburban showplace was replete with maids’quarters, 14 telephones, imported Italian terrazzo tile floors, Indian wool carpeting, and Japanese raw silk draperies designed especially for the Fullers.
  • · 1988 died of kidney failure, October 24, in Blue Island, Illinois

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