Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-01
The Integrity OF the Name is Guarantee OF the Product
HIGHEST STANDARDS
FOR over SO YEARS
Fuller Holway Company Has
Enviable Record in
State of Maine


We are taught by one of the Old Tesla
ment writer's, that "A good name is rather
to be chosen than great riches" and this
admonition, we believe to be just as i'm
portant, and of more consequence, now, than
when written thousands Of years ago.
The Fuller-Holway Company take great
pride in their name, because it has behind it
an honorable record of three-quarters of
century, Back in the fifties, John Jones Fuller
and Samuel Smith Rogers, Of Augusta,
formed partnership, and operated whole
sale and retail business on the site of what
is now the Edwards Boarding House. They
handled Groceries, Grain, Hides, Wool, and
various other kinds of merchandise, receiv-
ing and delivering supplies from various
parts of the State, and conducting an old
fashioned business of buying, selling and ex-
changing products.
Early in 1860, Samuel S. Rogers sold his
interest in the business to Oscar Holway,
and while the name of the partnership never
read Fuller and Holway, the firm consisted
of John J. Fuller and Oscar Holway, under
the name of John J. Fuller & Company.
Years later, after the close Of the War, Mr..
Holway sold his interest to James E. Fuller
(son of John j. Fuller) and the name was
changed to John j. Fuller & Son. Mr.. Hol-
way associated himself in business with well
known Augusta men, conducting, first,
wholesale grocery business and afterwards
wholesale Grain and Flour business, later
moving to Auburn. This concern continued
under the name of Oscar Holway Company
long after Mr.. Holway died.
Early Changes
When John ]. Fuller retired, he sold out
his interest to his son. James E. Fuller, who
conducted a wholesale and retail grocery
business on Water Street, until 1902. That
year he sold out, and in company with Melvin
S. and Charles o. Holway, sons of the late
Oscar Holway, John II. Fuller (his sony and
Thomas G.. Ingraham (his son-in-aw) found
ed the present Corporation, and became it's
first President. From 1902 to 1911, this
company conducted wholesale grocery bust
ness in the Macomber-Wight Block, opposite
Masonic Temple. Owing to constantly in
creasng business, the company was obliged
to have larger quarters, and that year (191D
purchased the property and equipment of b.
F. Parott Company, SO Water Street, long
established, well-known wholesale and retail
Grain concern. That year the present ware
house and elevator was erected and cOmplet-
ed. Since then the company has operated as
wholesale grocery and grain concern.
James E. Fuller retired in 1915. James
Fuller Ingraham great grandson OF John
Jones Fuller, and grandson Of James E.
Fuller, came into the business in the summer
of 1919, and for over two years has been Its
Treasurer The present officers of the
company are Thomas C. Ingraham, presl-
dent: Frank w. Simmons, Vice-President;
and James Fuller Ingraham, Treasurer.
The above constitutes the Board of Direc-
tors with Henry T. Gilmore, Clerk and
Auditor
Although there is no one bearing the sur.
name of Fuller or Holway, now connected
with the business the name has come down
in an almost unbrOken line for nearly three
quarters of century.
The above is brief sketch and history OF
business which has behind it an honorable
record of progress and achievement. VI
course they take pride in their name, and
they have every reason to be proud, Tor those
are the names of men of character and IN
tegrity, and their history is part or the
history of Augusta, and similar stores nave
been written about nearly every community
in NeW England.
Business Policy
From the period of its inception under its
earlier proprietors, since to its incorporation
and lastly to its present status, the dealings
Of this concern have always been fair ana
honorable and as a result it has today upon
its books the names of large number OF the
Oldest and strongest wholesale and retail
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