GIDEON E. S. FELLOWS - Biography

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This biography appears on page 638-639 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


GIDEON E. S. FELLOWS, farmer, Sec. 31 P. O. Burlington; born in Otsego
Co., N, Y., Sept. 7, 1808; went to Geneva, Walworth Co., in 1855, and
remained there ten years; he married in Feb., 1835, Rachel Cook, of
Onondaga Co., N. Y., and had six children- Susanna, Betsey, Clarissa,
Elnathan, Amos and Arthur G.; his wife died in Geneva, Aug. 18, 1862 ;
he married again, in Aug., 1863, Laura Benson, widow of Milton Martin, a
resident of Spring Prairie; when he first went to Geneva, in 1855, he
bought 140 acres of land, and improved it and built a residence in 1863,
he moved to Spring Prairie, and, in 1866, sold the property in Geneva;
his second wife owned seventy-eight acres of land in Spring Prairie,
and, in 1868, he bought forty acres more in the same place; in 1869, he
moved to Burlington village, where he lived three years; in March, 1872,
he bought 87 3/4 acres in Sec. 31, Burlington, with residence on it, and
now occupies it - his son Elnathan enlisted in the 22d Wis., and died of
fever in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Aug. 19, 1863; Amos enlisted in the same
regiment, and was wounded at the battle of Resaca Woods, near Atlanta,
Ga., and died, June 18, 1864, at Kingston, Ga., where he was sent when
wounded.