Birth record listed simply as male in Knox Co records; and his birth is listed as 27 Mar in Knox Co Vital Records.
Listed with his parents in 1870 and 1880.
Listed as F. H. Wells (Mar 1869, OH) in 1900 Chicago census as clerk. It lists his parents as born in PA and OH. He is listed as married 2 yrs, with his wife A. M. Wells (Dec 1875, OH) whose parents were born in Germany.
Living in Chicago, Illinois in 1905 and in 1908 (father's obit).
On 27 May 1912 he was (re)married to Anna Kielpenski (34, OH) in Chicago, although the marriage record lists his name as Wills.
Listed in Chicago in 1920 as Fred H. Wells, working as a clerk (46, OH) for the railroad, with his wife Anna (47, OH) and her father Jacob Kielpenski (80, POL) who had immigrated in 1873 and become naturalized in 1887.
Chicago death records list him as Fred H. Wells.
It is unknown at this point as to what became of his first wife.