One of the last truly rustic roads in this part of town, Fellowship Parkway was named in 1906 by evangelical minister Benjamin Fay Mills (1857-1916). The New Jersey-born Mills was an indisputable progressive, being a vegetarian, suffragist, Christian socialist, and outspoken fan of the Bhagavad Gita. After a few years in the Bay Area with the Unitarian Church, Rev. Mills and his wife Mary Russell Mills (c. 1860-1918) came to L.A. in 1904 and founded a nondenominational sect called the Los Angeles Fellowship. The couple themselves lived on Fellowship Parkway until relocating to Chicago in 1911; Mills often returned here to preach. A year before his death, Mills resigned from his own sect and rejoined his old church, the Presbyterians.
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