W. & C. Fellowes & Company

City: Louisville

County: Jefferson

State: Kentucky

W. & C. Fellowes & Company was a dry goods firm operated by William and Cornelius Fellowes. Headquartered originally in Louisville, Kentucky, W. &. C. Fellowes & Company specialized in trade with states along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. It imported fancy cloth from the Netherlands, manufactured jeans and socks, and sold fancy and staple dry goods. As the business expanded, William and Cornelius Fellowes established a branch store in New Orleans called Fellowes, Jenkins & Company. During the 1830s and 1840s, the company retained the firm of Logan & Lincoln in at least four legal cases in Illinois courts.

Henry Hall, ed., America's Successful Men of Affairs: An Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography (New York: New York Tribune, 1895), 1:235; W. G. Lyford, The Western Address Directory (Baltimore: Jos. Robertson, 1837), 378; For W. & C. Fellowes & Company's cases involving Abraham Lincoln, search "W. & C. Fellows," Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis et al., eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, 2d edition (Springfield: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2009), http://www.lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org.