Bio of FEWELL, Albert E. (b.1872), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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ALBERT E. FEWELL - Vol III, pg 380-383
Albert E. Fewell, president of the Excelsior Baking Company, was born June 20,
1872, on his father's farm in Iowa, and is the son of William and Gertrude
(Saucer) Fewell. The Fewell family has been in America for five generations and
is of English descent. After attending the local schools Mr. Fewell engaged in
his father's occupa­tion of farming, which he followed until he was twenty-two
years old.
In 1894 he removed to Minneapolis, where he started in the butter and egg
busi­ness in a very modest way. The receipts for the first day's sales amounted
to the munificent sum of one dollar and thirty-six cents. Spurred on by this
inauspicious beginning, the young merchant went out to work up his trade with
the encouraging result that in thirty days his daily sales amounted to one
hundred dollars. After changing his location twice to meet the demands of his
growing business, he located in Central Market, and also formed a partnership
with Mr. R. M. Fonda in the grocery business at No. 1001 North Fifth street. Ten
years later they moved to the corner of Twenty-fourth street and Hennepin
avenue, where they conducted a grocery store and meat market that did a business
of seventy-five thousand dollars the first year. In 1910 Mr. Fewell organized
the Excelsior Baking Company. In this enterprise he was shortly joined by Mr.
Lewis F. Bolser, and the two men have owned and managed the business ever since.
Mr. Fewell is president of the company and Mr. Bolser is secre­tary and
treasurer. They have a fine modern plant located at No. 912 East Twenty-fourth
street. The original building was erected in 1910, and has had various
addi­tions from time to time, as the increased volume of trade called for more
space. At present an average of ninety people are regularly employed. The
factory is equipped with the modern machinery that has made the production of
wholesome food products under sanitary conditions a veritable science. The
success which has attended Mr. Fewell's business ventures is largely due to his
excellent executive ability, sound judg­ment and tireless industry, and these
attributes have brought him to a prominent posi­tion in the Minneapolis
industrial and commercial circles.
Mr. Fewell's marriage to Miss Mable Ives took place at St. Paul. To this union
four children have been born: Marjorie, who died at the age of eleven years;
Dorothy, Jeannette, and Kenneth. The daughters are now studying in the
University of Minne­sota, and the son is a promising lad of twelve.
Fishing and motoring constitute the most enjoyable source of recreation to Mr.
Fewell. His interest in civic affairs is indicated by his membership in the
Civic and Commerce Association, and he belongs also to the Minneapolis Athletic
Club. While
Mr. Fewell is a republican, he believes in supporting the best men and issues
without regard to party principles. All of his life he has worked and talked for
prohibition and over twenty years ago he was one of the men of vision who
foresaw a dry United States.