Originally known as "Ferndale", the town was located on tracts of land originally settled by Giles Windsor (1767), Stephen Snyder (1786) and Jacob Yundt (1826). In 1895, the town was renamed "Fullerton" in honor of local businessman James W. Fuller Jr., who had purchased the railroad car wheel factory of Frederick & Company in 1865 and operated it as McKee, Fuller & Co. and later the Lehigh Car, Wheel & Axle Works. Fuller laid out the hamlet in 1870, and by 1883 it was a thriving company town with a population in excess of 1,500 men and their families. When the Lehigh Valley cement industry exploded in the early 1900s, Fuller's company prospered by providing machinery to the mills in the region, and the town supplied the workforce for both his factories, and the numerous mills and quarries operating in the immediate area.
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History of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania and a genealogical and biographical record of its families1914 · page 1249Read the page →
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Allentown. He followed this occupation at Wilkes-Barre five years, at Easton three years, and at Bethlehem for a few years and with the Dent Hardware Company, at Fullerton, for five years. On Dec. 4, 1905, he became the proprietor of the Windsor House at Fullerton, which he conducted until 1913.
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History of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania and a genealogical and biographical record of its families1914 · page 1043Read the page →
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from his ministerial labors and direct for a change of vocation direct his attention to building operations with his son-in-law, John A. Klinger, at Fullerton, he was persuaded to perform special services nearly every Sunday until in the Fall of 11909, when he began to preach in the Northampton Heights parish and there he was installed as the regular pastor on March 13, 1910. This
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History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, from the earliest settlements to the present time, including much valuable information for the use of schools, families, libraries1902 · page 48Read the page →
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Population in 1900, 500. West Catasauqua, a suburb of Catasauqua contains stores, hotels, foundries, factories of various kinds and graded schools. Population in 1900 was 600. Fullerton, founded in 1862, contains car shop, wheel and forge works, rolling mill, foundry, stores, hotels, churches, schools and post office. It is on the I^ehigh Valley R. R. Population in 1900 was Soo. Egypt, founded in 1733, contains stores, hotels, churches, schools and a post office. The first
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