The Fannon family

The Fannons trace their Alexandria business to 1885, when Thomas J. Fannon Person Thomas J. Fannon Founder in 1885 of the Alexandria wood-and-coal yard that became , Alexandria's longest-running family-owned heating-fuel business. established a wood-and-coal yard at 1200 Duke Street — the same address 1200 Duke Street Place 1200 Duke Street Headquarters of T. J. Fannon & Sons at 1200 Duke Street, the Alexandria heating-fuel firm founded by Thomas J. Fannon as a wood-and-coal yard in 1885 and continuously operated by … occupies today. The firm passed through generations as a son-following-father concern, transitioning from cordwood to coal to fuel oil to natural gas alongside the city’s domestic energy transitions ^[1] Source 1 Fannon Petroleum, 'About' Website .

The current president, John Fannon, is the fifth-generation Fannon to lead the business; he and his predecessors have kept the headquarters at 1200 Duke Street even as wholesale operations expanded to Gainesville in 2008. Living-person privacy applies (per spec sec 11.2); contemporary family details beyond the company’s published biographies are not included here.