“Fuller” wasn’t a description of the bristles, but the last name of the company’s founder, Alfred Carl Fuller (1885-1973). A self-described country bumpkin. Fuller grew up on a farm in Welsford, Nova Scotia. His career started disastrously: as a trolley conductor, he was fired for derailing the car, and his own brother fired him from his job as an express wagon driver because he delivered packages to the wrong people. Fuller didn’t do as badly selling brushes door-to-door, though, so he borrowed $75 and started his own brush company. He sold everything from scrubbing brushes to hairbrushes. Eventually, he hired a fleet of traveling salesmen who became so famous they inspired two movies: The Fuller Brush Man, with comedian Red Skelton and The Fuller Brush Girl, with Lucille Ball.
Damming Evidence
North American beavers are smaller than only the South American capybara, which
