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Fellows, Isaiah

lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 20, 1860, in England. In 1868 he emigrated with his parents to America, and has since lived in Cohoes, N. Y. In 1891 he was elected school commissioner; and the same year was appointed a member of the hospital commission. In 1896 he was appointed for a term of four years judge of the recorder's court of his city, with criminal jurisdiction. He has a large practice in railroad and life insurance litigation.

Fellows, John

soldier, was born in 1733, in Pomfret, Conn. He served in the French and Indian war; and was a member of the Massachusetts provincial congress in 1775. He died Aug. 1, 1808, in Sheffield, Mass.

Fellows, John

author, was born in 1760, in Sheffield, Mass. He was the author of The Veil Removed; and Mysteries of Free Masonry. He died in 1844.

Fellows, John R

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born July 29, 1832, in Troy, N. Y. He settled in Arkansas, and was elected to the state senate. He removed to New York city in 1868; was appointed assistant district attorney in 1869; and was elected district attorney in 1887. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.

Fellows, Samuel M

college president, was born Nov. 23, 1818, in North Sandwich, N. H. In 1859 he was elected president of Cornell college of Mt. Vernon, Iowa, serving until 1863. He died June 26, 1863.

Felt, David P

journalist, was born Aug. 7, 1860, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is prominent in the newspaper world, and is editor and owner of the Independent of Springville, Utah. In 1897 he was elected president of the Utah Press association.

Felt, Joseph Barlow

clergyman, author, was born Dec. 22, 1789, in Salem, Mass. He was a congregational minister of Massachusetts who, after retiring from the ministry, devoted himself to antiquarian research at Salem. He was the author of Annals of Salem; History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton; Historical Account of Massachusetts Currency; Memoirs of Hugh Peters; The Customs of New England; and Ecclesiastical History of New England. He died in 1869.

Felton, Cornelius Conway

educator, author, was born Nov. 6, 1807, in West Newbury, Mass. He was a Greek scholar of eminence who was president of Harvard college in 1860-62. Besides his many translations from the Greek, among which The Clouds and The Birds of Aristophanes are the most noteworthy, he published Selections from Modern Greek Writers, with Notes; Familiar Letters from Europe; and Greece, Ancient and Modern. He died Feb. 26, 1862, in Chester, Pa.

Felton, John Brooks

lawyer, was born in 1827, in Sangus, Mass. He was mayor of Oakland, where he lived; and was for many years a regent of the university of California, of which he was one of the founders. He died May 3, 1877, in Oakland, Cal.

Felton, Samuel Morse

civil engineer, was born July 17, 1809, in Newbury, Mass. He became superintendent and engineer of the Fitchburg railroad in 1843, and left it in 1851 to become the president of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore road, where he remained until 1865. He died Jan. 24, 1889, in Harvard, Pa.

Felton, Samuel Morse

railroad president, was born Feb. 3, 1853, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is president of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific railway.

Fendall, Josias

governor, was born in England. In 1657 he was elected governor of Maryland, serving until 1660.