Sutter County
Biographies
GEORGE W. FELLOWS
Distinguished among the most successful educators in Sutter County, George W. Fellows, principal of the grammar school at Live Oak, enjoys the confidence and esteem of his pupils and associates, and also of the progressive community, which is always solicitous for the best in school equipment and educational training. He was born at Vinton, Iowa, on April 29, 1886, and there attended the grammar and high schools, after which he matriculated at the Northwestern University at Evanston, majoring in the department of Education. In 1921 he came to Live Oak, where he accepted the principalship of the grammar school. Coming from one of the best institutions in the country, and profiting by modern instruction and drill, Professor Fellows has brought to his work and the school life of the town the last word in pedagogy. Since coming here, he has made many improvements, and the Live Oak Grammar School is now recognized as one of the best, for its size and equipment, in the State.
Professor Fellows’ interests are not wholly limited to the school-room. In 1913 he came to Glenn County and located near Willows; and there he planted a fruit and grain ranch of forty-five acres, which he still owns and which is in a fine state of cultivation. While in Iowa, Mr. Fellows was a member of the local Masonic lodge; but in California he has been content to belong to the larger fraternity of good-fellowship and good-will.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 850
WILLIAM D. MANGELS
A practical and progressive rancher, William D. Mangels has led an active and useful life. Since 1914 he has been actively interested in fruit-raising. He owns a twenty-acre peach orchard in the O’Banion tract, and ninety acres nine and a half miles southwest of Yuba City; and besides attending to his own property, he leases eighty-seven acres on which he raises grain. He was born in Oakland, Cal., March 22, 1877, the youngest of three sons born to Herman and Matilda (Doscher) Mangels. Since his twelfth year, he has done ranch work throughout Sutter County. He completed the grammar-school course at the Gaither school; and after leaving school he entered the railroad shops in Sacramento as an apprentice to learn the machinist’s trade, and worked there for three years. In 1908 he began farming the Kimball place of 160 acres, situated adjacent to O’Banion Corners, in Sutter County, where he raised grain, his efforts being rewarded with substantial success. In 1914 he located on his present home place, which he has improved to a peach orchard, and he is also engaged in farming and stock-raising.
The marriage of Mr. Mangels united him with Miss Alice Farmer, a native of Sutter County, and youngest daughter of the late Louis P. Farmer, a prominent and favorably known pioneer of the county.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 854