Imperial County CA Archives Biographies.....Fuller, Francis B. 1862 - 
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Author: F. C. Farr (editor, 1918)

FRANCIS B. FULLER.—Among the strong financial institutions of Imperial Valley is
the El Centro National Bank, and among the bankers of prominence in that city is
Francis B. Fuller, who has been president of that institution since its
organization March 9, 1909. He has done much toward securing for his institution
the foremost position in banking circles that it now occupies. His banking
experiences extend over many years. Francis B. Fuller was born in the Sugar
Valley, Georgia, January 29, 1862, a son of Samuel O. and Elizabeth (Bates)
Fuller. He acquired his education after he passed his twenty-fourth year.
Previous to this he had followed agricultural pursuits and rented farms both in
Georgia and Texas. From the age of twenty-four to twenty-six he acquired a
common school education. He entered the mercantile business and worked one year;
then he rode the range for a period of fifteen years, receiving $25.00 per
month. In 1898 he was elected District Clerk by the people of Herford, Texas,
which position he held for four years. He then became interested in the Herford
National Bank, which he helped to organize. Later he retired from the Herford
Bank and organized the Western National Bank of Herford, Texas. He held the
position as cashier for a period of four years. Mr. Fuller then came to
California and located in El Centro, where he engaged in the real estate
business until he organized the El Centro National Bank, which was the first
national bank organized in El Centro. Mr. Fuller is careful, painstaking and
systematic, and as a result he is a student of human nature and conditions;
seldom has he made an error in extending credit or making investments. The
institution of which he is president has greatly prospered through his efforts.
He is readily conceded to be among the able and well-informed men in banking
circles in Southern California. Mr. Fuller has large realty holdings in El
Centro, as well as farm properties. Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic
and K. of P. lodges. He holds the office of president of the Chamber of
Commerce. He was twice married, the first union being at Herford, Texas, to Miss
Salome Moore. Her death occurred in 1910. To the first union were born two
children, Jean Luvois and Frances Salome. The second marriage occurred May 15,
1915, to Mrs. Rosa Negus. The great-grandparents of Mr. Fuller had fifteen
children, fourteen of whom lived to be men and women, and the first natural
death that occurred in that family occurred in 1914. Mr. Fuller's father was
killed in action during the Civil war. Mr. Fuller erected the first residence in
El Centro on the present site of the Barbara Worth Hotel.

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THE HISTORY
OF
IMPERIAL COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
EDITED BY
F. C. FARR

IN ONE VOLUME
ILLUSTRATED
Published by ELMS AND FRANKS
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 1918

Printed by Taylor & Taylor, San Francisco

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