Biography:  JUDGE JOSEPH WARREN FELLOWS, Merrimack., NH

Granite State Magazine An Illustrated Monthly Devoted to the History,
Story, Scenery, Industry and Interest of New Hampshire 
Edited By George Waldo Browne 
Volume I. January to June, 1906 
Manchester, N.H.:
Granite State Publishing Company 1906

page 311-312

JUDGE JOSEPH WARREN FELLOWS was born in Andover, January 15, 1835, and
died in Manchester, April 26, 1906, after a brief illness following a
slight cold. He was the son of John and Polly (Hilton) Fellows. Reared upon
a farm, he resolved to enter a professional career, and after fitting
himself at Andover Academy he entered Dartmouth College, to graduate in
1858. He then became principal of the Brownwood Institute at Lagrange, Ga.,
Latin School, but finding that war was imminent, he gave up teaching and
returned to the North. He began the study of law with John M. Shirley of
Andover, and after a course in the law department of the Albany, N. Y.,
Institute, he graduated from that institution in 186r, and was admitted to
the bar in the New York court of appeals. Upon being admitted to the bar in
this state, in 1862, he formed a partnership with Capt. Amos B. Shattuck of
Manchester. Captain Shattuck entering the army, and falling in battle at
Fredericksburg, on December 13, 1862, Mr. Fellows was left to continue his
profession alone, remaining in an office in Merchant's Exchange for over
thirty years. A Democrat in politics, and always active in a cause that he
deemed worthy, his professional career has left a deep impression on the
community in which he moved. Entering the employ of the Concord Railroad as
clerk in 1874, he soon became its attorney and remained closely identified
with this and its succeeding corporations until his decease.

He was made judge of the Manchester police court in 1874, holding the
position for eleven years, but never sought any political preferment,
though serving his party zealously in many campaigns. For nearly fifty
years judge Fellows was closely identified with the Masonic fraternity,
holding many positions of trust and honor. He had taken all the degrees,
the orders of Knighthood and the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rites. He
was one of the most active promoters in securing to the
 fraternity the
beautiful Masonic Home in Manchester.

He married, in 1865, Miss Susan Frances Moore, who died in 1874, and in
1878 he married Mrs. Elizabeth B. Davis who survives him.
Courtesy of Tina Vickery
March 2000


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