Past and present of Greene County Missouri; early and recent history and genealogical records of many of the representative citizens . et there is added tothis an honest determination of purpose and an obliging disposition, whichh;is impelled him to help others while he was making a path to prosperityfor himself. From an early age his desire has been to earn e\ery cent neededin the prosecution of his business. He has always lived up to his principle;and now that old age has set her silvery seal upon his head, he ha\-ing seenthe winters of more than three-quarters of a century, with the ambitio
Past and present of Greene County Missouri; early and recent history and genealogical records of many of the representative citizens . et there is added tothis an honest determination of purpose and an obliging disposition, whichh;is impelled him to help others while he was making a path to prosperityfor himself. From an early age his desire has been to earn e\ery cent neededin the prosecution of his business. He has always lived up to his principle;and now that old age has set her silvery seal upon his head, he ha\-ing seenthe winters of more than three-quarters of a century, with the ambition toaccumulate not so strong upon him as in his earlier years, no longer being anecessity, free from embarrassing debts and with unencumbered property, hestands among the financially strong men of Greene county, in which he first. N. W. FELLOWS. GREENE COUNTY, MISSOURI. 737 located more than half a century ago. Springfield i^resents quite a differencein appearance now to what it did then, and no one has witnessed its steadydevelopment with any more pleasure than our subject. ]\lr. Fellows, formerly a well-known wagon manufacturer, was bornin Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, October 21, 1837. He is a son of Erastusand Betsey (Cole) Fellows, the father born in Connecticut in 1800, diedin 1886; the mother was born in Otsego, New York, in 1801, and her deathoccurred in 1888. both having reached advanced ages. Erastus Fellowsgrew up amid the primitive conditions of the East and he had very little•opportunity to obtain an education. He left home when twelve years of ageand went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he found employment with a dairycompany, with which he remained two years, then came to Tioga county,Pennsyhania. and there took up government land which he developed. Hedevoted his life principally to farming, also ran a
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