Fuller Syndicate

The Fuller Syndicate was a group of American financiers that invested in railroads in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The group was organized by investor Edward Laton Fuller, President of the International Salt Company, and led by George Jay Gould I.

Other members of the syndicate included Myron T. Herrick, former Governor of Ohio and U.S.

Ambassador to France; Winslow S. Pierce, General Counsel of the Gould organization; Joseph Ramsey, Jr., president of the Wabash Railroad; and Alvin W. Krech, vice president of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad.

[3]: 47  Following the Panic of 1907, Gould and the syndicate became financially overextended in 1908 and the railroads entered receivership.