Frederick "Fred" Bellows (1851-1909) was born in Bloomfield, Ohio, and died in Orlando, Florida. Sometime before 1860 he moved with his family to Weeping Water, Nebraska, and by 1870 was working as a clerk at Reed Bros. & Co., general merchants. He graduated from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1879, and thereafter returned to Weeping Water. He married Florence J. Bellows (b. Crum) in 1880 and continued working for Reed Bros. & Co. for several years thereafter. Bellows's first wife died in 1893, and in 1895, he married Inez F. Bellows (b. Barrows) in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she was then living. In around 1896 the couple moved to Toledo, Ohio, where Bellows worked as an insurance agent. By 1902, seeking better health, they moved to Florida, first to Jacksonville, then to Winter Park, and finally to Orlando, where Bellows was a contractor and builder. In 1886 Bellows wrote to Mary Baker Eddy, from Weeping Water to order eight copies of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. He reported that he was working to establish Christian Science there together with Amandus W. Beach and his wife Aurel P. Beach (b. Paine), all three having studied Christian Science with Jennie B. Fenn, a student of Eddy.

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