From History of Walworth County Wisconsin, Vol. 1, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, 
publ. 1912 - Pages 715 - 718
 
CAPT. THEODORE A. FELLOWS.  The Union soldier during the great war between the 
states builded wiser than he knew.  Through four years of suffering and wasting 
hardships, through the horrors of prison pens and amid the shadows of death, he 
laid the superstructure of the greatest temple ever erected and dedicated to 
human freedom.  The world looked on and called those soldiers sublime, for it 
was theirs to reach out the mighty arm of power and strike the chains from off 
the slave, preserve the country from dissolution, and to keep furled to the 
breeze the only flag that ever made tyrants tremble and whose majestic stripes 
and scintillating stars are still waving universal liberty to all the earth.  
For all those unmeasured deeds the living present will never repay them.  
Pension and political power may be thrown at their feet; art and sculpture may 
preserve upon canvas and in granite and bronze their unselfish deeds; history 
may commit to books and cold type may give to the future the tale of their 
sufferings and triumphs, but to the children of the generations yet unborn will 
it remain to accord the full measure of appreciation and undying remembrance of 
the immortal character carved out by the American soldiers in the dark days in 
the early sixties, numbered among whom was Capt. Theodore A. FELLOWS, for many 
decades a highly respected citizen of Walworth county, whose death occurred at 
his home at Genoa Junction, on February 10, 1912.
 
Captain FELLOWS was born in Kalamazoo county, Michigan, May 12, 1836.  He was 
the son of Timothy Hopkins FELLOWS and Eliza Ann (DUNCAN) FELLOWS.  The lineage 
of this family may be traced back to William FELLOWS, who was born in England 
about 1609, who emigrated to America, making his home at Ipswich, 
Massachusetts, where his death occurred in 1676; tradition makes it probable 
that he came to the New World about 1603 or a few years later.  His son, 
Ephraim, born in 1639, was a trooper in King Philip's war, in 1675, under Capt. 
Nicholas Page.  His son, Ephraim, had a son, Abiel, Sr., who lived at Canaan, 
Connecticut, his birth having occurred on October  29, 1734.  Abiel, Jr., was 
born in October, 1764, and he also lived at Canaan, Connecticut; he was three 
times married, and had nineteen children, all of whom lived and reared families 
of their own.  His grandson is Captain FELLOWS of this review.  Timothy 
FELLOWS, father of the subject, was the son of Abiel FELLOWS, Jr., and his 
third wife, Dorcas HOPKINS.  He was born March 14, 1812, in Luzerne county, 
Pennsylvania.  Abiel FELLOWS, Sr. was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and he 
was granted six thousand acres of land in Pennsylvania.  Part of it was 
mountainous and apparently worthless and he traded it off.  Since then it has 
increased to wonderful values, in view of the fact that rich veins of 
anthracite coal underlie it.  Eliza Ann DUNCAN was the daughter of William and 
Ruth (GILMAN) DUNCAN, of Ackworth.  She was descended from George DUNCAN, who 
emigrated from Londonderry, Ireland, in 1719 and settled in Londonderry, New 
Hampshire.  He married Margaret CROSS.  William DUNCAN, son of George, born in 
Ireland in 1716, came with his parents to America, and he became a captain 
probably in the French and Indian war, for he was sixty years old when the 
American Revolution began.  His son, John, of Ackworth, New Hampshire, was a 
colonel in the latter war, and he became a representative in the Legislature.  
His son, William, was the father of Eliza Ann DUNCAN.
 
Timothy H. FELLOWS, father of the subject of this sketch, had gone to Michigan 
in 1829 when he was seventeen years old and there he married Eliza Ann DUNCAN, 
December 1, 1831, and to them eleven children were born, five of whom died in 
infancy, Theodore A., of this sketch, being the third in order of birth.  He 
was three years old when the family moved to Wisconsin in the spring of 1840 
and located in the southeast corner of Walworth county, when the country was 
wild and without roads.  Genoa Junction was not started until eleven years 
later.  The father had previously entered into an arrangement with Daniel ROWE 
and Delmore DUNCAN whereby ROWE was sent here to enter land.  He accordingly 
took up a large tract, including the water power site at what is now Genoa 
Junction, and this they afterwards divided.  Mr. FELLOWS' land was in section 
34 and 35 along the south line of the county and state, and there he 
established the family home where he and his wife spent the rest of their 
lives.  He not only engaged in farming but also merchandising for some time in 
the early days.  He was the first chairman of the town board of Bloomfield, 
after Geneva had been divided into four townships and the Bloomfield township 
was thus created.  He became prominent in public affairs, influential in 
politics, and he was a representative in the Legislature two different terms in 
the fifties.  His death occurred in November, 1894, and his wife died on April 
23, 1887.
 
Capt Theodore A. FELLOWS grew upon his father's farm.  He spent a year at Cedar 
Park seminary, Michigan.  In 1856 he married Jane A. MONEAR, daughter of 
William and Marcia (CHRISTIAN) MONEAR.  She as born on the Isle of Man and came 
to America in 1844 with her parents, who located in Kenosha county, Wisconsin, 
later moving to McHenry county, Illinois, not far from the FELLOWS home at the 
state line.
 
The subject and wife moved to Minnesota a few months after their marriage, 
where he prospected for claims and improved them, remaining there two years, 
after acquiring about a half section of land which he held for a number of 
years.  Returning to his father's farm, he remained there until the spring of 
1860, spending the summer of that year in the mountains of what was then called 
western Kansas, later becoming Colorado Territory, the county, the Civil war 
coming on the meanwhile, he enlisted in Company K, Eighth Wisconsin Volunteer 
Infantry, and he was soon seeing service in the Army of the Tennessee, along 
the east side of the Mississippi river until after the fall of Vicksburg, July 
4, 1863, when he was moved about to the Gulf of Mexico, then back to the 
department of the Cumberland and again back to the department of the Gulf.  He 
was in the battle of Nashville, which is mentioned by historians as being 
possibly the completest Union victory of the war.  He was also at the capture 
of Vicksburg, Corinth and Spanish Fort, was at Fort Blakely and Mobile Bay, 
thus seeing much hard fighting and strenuous campaign work, in fact his 
regiment was in more engagements than any other from Wisconsin.  At the battle 
of Corinth Mr. FELLOWS was wounded and he ever afterwards carried the bullet in 
his side.  He was also wounded in the leg at the battle of Nashville, and was 
disabled two or three months.  He was made orderly sergeant when the company 
was organized, having enlisted as a private.  He proved to be a faithful and 
gallant soldier, winning the admiration of his comrades and the confidence of 
his superior officers, consequently his promotion was gradual.  In July 1862 he 
was commissioned second lieutenant, and in the fall of the same year he was 
commissioned first lieutenant, and in 1865 he attained the rank of captain.
 
After the war Captain FELLOWS went to Iowa, in the spring of 1866 and lived 
three and one-half years at Des Moines, where he engaged in the general 
merchandise business.  In the fall of 1869 he went to western Kansas where he 
followed farming and dealing in live stock, chiefly Texas cattle, remaining 
there about nine years.  He went to Leadville, Colorado, in 1879, when the 
mining excitement was at its height.  There he engaged in mining, also general 
merchandising, remaining there about seven years.  Returning to  Genoa 
Junction, Wisconsin, in December, 1885, he remained here most of the time 
since, engaged in general farming and stock raising on his fine farm in the 
edge of the village.
 
Captain FELLOWS was a member of the county board and also supervisor of Genoa 
Junction.  He was a member of the Masonic order, also the Grand Army of the 
Republic and the Loyal Legion.
 
The death of Captain FELLOWS' first wife occurred in January 1904, and in 
February, 1905, he was united in marriage with Peryl M. CREIGHTON, daughter of 
Alfred and Julia (JONES) CREIGHTON.  She was born and reared at Ida Grove, 
Iowa.  Her parents formerly lived at Sioux City, Iowa, but they now reside in 
Genoa Junction.  The Captain's family consists of two children, Theodore A. and 
Maxine Jeanette.  Captain FELLOWS was a man of high standing in Walworth county 
or wherever he was known.  He was noted for his industry, courage and public 
spirit and his loyalty to friends.

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