FRS Industries Celebrates 125 Years in Business

FRS Industries, based in Fargo, North Dakota, is celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2010. Nugent & Brown Book Binders, as it was known in 1885, was started by G.H. Brown and A.E. Nugent of Fargo. It was about 1913 when the company became known as Fargo Rubber Stamp Works after Iver Fossum took ownership. Fossum and his son Cyrus ran Fargo Rubber Stamp Works for many years and in 1976 Fossum sold to eight employees.