Clay Co., KS AHGP-Portrait and Biographical Album of Washington, Clay and Riley Counties-Leroy Fellows
Portrait and Biographical Album of Washington, Clay and Riley Counties Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1890
LEROY M. FELLOWS. The finely cultivated
farm of 320 acres which comprises
the headquarters of one of the best citizens
of Blaine Township, and which is finely located on
section 35 illustrates in a marked manner what a
man may accomplish by steady perseverance and
industry. Mr. Fellows started out in life dependent
upon his own resources, employing himself as
a farm laborer, and thus earned his first $1,000,
with which he began farming. By a course of
prudence and economy he has steadily added to his
worldly possessions, and is now numbered among
the well-to-do farmers and stock-raisers of his
township. Politically, he is a sound Republican,
and a man liberal and public-spirited, a member of
the Baptist Church, and one who uniformly gives
his encouragement and support to the enterprises
calculated to benefit the people.
Mr. Fellows was born in Onondaga County,
N. Y., Oct. 26, 1850, and is consequently on the
sunny side of forty. He is the scion of an excellent
family, being the son of David G. and Mary
Fellows, both of whom are natives of the Empire
State. The paternal ancestors came from England.
Leroy M. was the youngest in a family of six children,
and was reared to manhood in his native
county, his life passing in a comparatively uneventful
manner upon the farm. He acquired his education
in the public schools, and .at an early period
chose farming for his vocation in life. He began
business for himself in the twenty-second year of
his age, but made his home with his father until
in his twenty-fourth year, when, changing his occupation
somewhat, he engaged as a clerk in a store
at Camillus, N. Y., and was thus occupied about
three years. The following year he engaged in
teaming, hauling lumber, brick and other building
material for E. D. Sherwood. At the expiration
of this time he resumed farming, which he followed
eight years in New York.
The 11th of March, 1875, formed an interesting
date in the life of our subject, namely, his marriage
with Miss Inez, daughter of George Whitney, then
a resident of New York State, but now living in
Lansing, Iowa. The newly wedded pair began
the journey of life together in New York, and in
1885, coming to Kansas, settled upon the present
farm, to which Mr. Fellows has since given his
close attention, bringing it to a high state of cultivation
and erecting upon it substantial buildings.
To our subject and his estimable wife there have
been born four children: Arthur, Sept. 30, 1876;
Helena, Feb. 10, 1882; Scott, Nov. 13, 1883; and
Alfred, May 27, 1885. Mrs. Fellows is a member
in good standing of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, in her old home in New York State.