Thomas J. Fannon
Founder in 1885 of the Alexandria wood-and-coal yard that became T. J. Fannon & Sons T. J. Fannon & Sons founded 1885 Alexandria heating-fuel firm founded by in 1885 as a wood-and-coal yard at 1200 Duke Street. Continuously operated by the Fannon family across five generations; converted from … , Alexandria’s longest-running family-owned heating-fuel business.
Thomas J. Fannon opened his wood-and-coal yard at 1200 Duke Street in 1885, serving Alexandria households and the small industries along the lower Duke Street corridor [1] Fannon Petroleum, 'About' Website . He brought his sons into the business early; the firm operated as “T. J. Fannon & Sons” within a generation. Surviving biographical detail about Thomas J. himself is thin in readily available sources; this record is a scaffold for descendant research and family-archive material.
The firm is now in its fifth generation of Fannon-family ownership and has never moved off the original Duke Street site — an unusual continuity for an Alexandria industrial business that opened during the Cleveland administration.
Associated places
- 1885–1925
Thomas J. Fannon founds the firm as a wood-and-coal yard
Sources
- 1.
Fannon Petroleum Services, 'About Fannon Petroleum,' company website.
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