Allen R. Fellows Biography


	This biography appears on pages 827-828 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				ALLEN R. FELLOWS. 

	Wide experience, keen insight and business discrimination have 
formed the basis of the success of Allen R. Fellows, one of the leading 
and valued business men of Sioux Falls. He is vice president and 
general manager of the Brown Drug Company and he holds a position of 
prominence and importance in business circles of the city. He was born 
on a farm in Cook county, Illinois, April 21, 1866, and is a son of 
Jonathan and Charlotte Augusta (Rich) Fellows. The father was a native 
of New York state. as was also the grandfather of the subject of this 
review, Samuel Fellows. The family came from England and is of Scotch-
Irish Descent. 

	Allen R. Fellows acquired his education in the public schools of 
Dunton, now Arlington Heights, Cook county, Illinois, and in the public 
schools of Chicago, completing the grammar-school course in 1879. He 
began his business career as clerk in a wholesale drug house in Chicago 
at three dollars a week and remained with this concern for eleven 
years, rising by the force of his ability and energy to be city buyer, 
a position in which his salary was thirty-five dollars per week. 
Following this Ml. Fellows was for eight years salesman for Lord, Owen 
& Company, wholesale druggists of Chicago, whom he represented in 
Dakota territory. In 1898 he resigned that position and entered the 
employ of Humeston, Keeling & Company, owners of another Chicago 
wholesale drug house, becoming their stock buyer. At the end of four 
years he bought an interest in a manufacturing drug house in Chicago 
and at the end of a similar period of time disposed of his interests in 
that concern and located in Sioux Falls, buying an interest in the 
Brown Drug Company, of which he has since been vice president and 
general manager. He understands the drug business in all of its 
departments and his energetic and well-directed efforts are important 
factors in the growth of the concern with which he is connected. 

	On the 1st of January, 1888, in Chicago, Illinois, Mr. Fellows 
married Miss Harriet E. Leak Fever and they have become the parents of 
three children: Lulu Augusta, a graduate of Carleton College of 
Northfield, Minnesota, and now a teacher in the high school at 
Princeton, Minnesota; Harriet Lindwood, who was graduated from Beloit 
College in 1912; and Agnes Edna, a student in Carleton College at 
Northfield, Minnesota. 

	Mr. Fellows belongs to the Masonic order, holding membership in 
the Shrine, and is also a member of the Elks and of the Dacotah and the 
Commercial Clubs. He is president of the Sioux Falls Country Club and 
president of the Credit Men's Association of Sioux Falls. His political 
allegiance is given to the republican party. Throughout his business 
career he has manifested an aptitude for successful management and his 
labors have resulted in the attainment of a prosperity which now places 
him among the men of affluence in this city.