WILLIAM
E. FELL, manager of the Greenville Coal & Ice Company, is a native
of Pymatuning, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, born July 1, 1869, a son
of Erwin and Elizabeth (Jack) Fell. The father was born in
Pymatuning township and now resides in Ohio, and the mother was born in
Greenville, Pennsylvania. They were married in Mercer county and their
children were: Allie M.; William E.; Lulu; Thaddeus J. The
grandfather, Andrew Fell, was one of the pioneer families of
Mercer county and a member of the Baptist church. In political views he
was an ardent Whig and later a Republican.
Erwin Fell, the
father of William E., spent his boyhood days on the old homestead. He
enlisted as a soldier in the Civil war. After the close of his service
in the war, he returned to Mercer county and engaged in farming up to
1893, when he moved to Ohio, locating in Trumbull county, and there he
is still successfully carrying on his farm. Politically, he votes the
Republican ticket.
Like his father, William E. Fell spent his
boyhood days on the old homestead and assisting his father and
attending the public schools up to 1890. Then he went to Roodhouse,
Illinois, and there engaged in the occupation of a hotel clerk,
continuing until the spring of 1892, when he returned to Mercer county,
Pennsylvania, where he engaged in farming on the old home place, which
he followed till the spring of 1901, when he went to Greenville and
there engaged in the implement business, carrying a full line of farm
machinery. Being one of the stockholders in the Greenville Coal and Ice
Company, in November, 1905, he took charge of the management of this
business. Mr. Fell is a worthy member of Alhambra Lodge No. 293,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. and politically votes the Republican
ticket.
He was married in March, 1800, to Josephine B. Cozadd,
born in Lackawannock township. Mercer county, Pennsylvania, the
daughter of James and Kate B. Cozadd. James Cozadd, a farmer of Mercer
county, was a native of that county and died in 1901. The mother was
born in the South and they were the parents of four children: Cora,
Josephine B. (Mrs. Fell), James and Katie B. The father belonged to the
Methodist Episcopal church. In his politics he was a firm defender of
Republican party principles. Mr. and Mrs. Fell are the parents of three
children, as follows: Bernice E., Dorothy J. and William Raymond.
Twentieth Century History of Mercer County, 1909, page 547
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