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Edgar Fulenwider’s $25,000 Bankrupt Stock

Mamie Jones wrote that, in the early years of Shelby, members of the Fulenwider family were among the town’s leading merchants. In the 1860s and for years afterward, the firm of Fulenwider, Webb & Co. operated what was then considered a big general merchandise store. Later there was also Fulenwider & Rudisill, general merchants.

She added that about 1897, Edgar Fulenwider ran a general merchandise store in the old Miller block at East Warren Street, went broke, and J. J. McMurry & Company bought the $25,000 bankrupt stock. She says that later, in the early part of the 1900s, Ed. Fulenwider operated a big general merchandise store again and again went into bankruptcy.

Source: Mamie Jones.

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