The origins
of White Fuel Company stem
from the days when coal was king and Lincoln was
President. John R. White & Sons Coal Company was one of
the largest distributors of
 coal in Rhode Island. In the
early 1930s, Samuel White the founder's grandson,
changed the direction of the company to include oil as
well as coal, and the name became White Fuel Company.
The effort to convert the firm's coal customers to oil
was spear headed by Harold A. Gower, who in 1946 bought
the Company. In 1960, Richard C. Gower succeeded his
father. The Firm has evolved from a small coal business
to a moderate-sized fuel oil company. White Fuel Company
serves more than 7,000 families in Rhode Island and
Massachusetts with fuel oil, service, oil heating
equipment and air conditioning equipment.
Richard's son
Curtis Gower joined the Company in 1989 to head the
sales and marketing department and to give the Company a
succession into the next generation.
Through
the years several acquisitions were made to increase the
Company's customer base. In order of succession they
were as follows:
|
Murray's Oil Company |
Waverly Oil Company |
Bay
State Oil Company |
|
Sinclair Oil Service |
RI
Fuel Company |
LaSalle Oil Company |
|
W.J.
Gardiner & Sons |
Wolfe
Oil Company |
Riverside Fuels |
|
Brookside Oil Corp. |
Gill
Oil Company |
Bray
Oil Company |
|
Public Oil Company |
Dan's
Oil Company |
A & K
Oil Service |
|
Atlantic Coal & Oil |
|
|
Through these acquisitions and by exercising White Fuel
Company's primary goal of offering top quality service
and product to the public, the Company has become one of
the oil industry leaders in this area.
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