The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-12-06
JOHN X. FELLOWS.

Col. Fellows was born in 1889 on q farm q
few miles from Mechanicville, Saratoga
county. and close to the old yellow Meeting
House." which is still standing. He went TO
the local school, Among his classmates was
Elmer Ellsworth. who was afterward the
Colonel of zouave fame who was killed at tho
Marshall House. at Alexandria, Va. In 1880
Col. Fellows went to Camden. Ark. on the
invitation of his uncle, Daniel Feliows,
who was o merchant there and who
got him a place in the law office of
Judge Abner A. Stith, where he studied law.
When he was % years old he passed an exam
ina.ion before Justice Scott Of the Supreme
Court and was admitted to the bar. Shortly
after this he formed q partnership with Walter
l.. Bragg. who was afterward . COMMISSIONS
under the Interstate Co nmeroe law. In 1860
the Colonel was an elector- at-larRe OH the Bell
and Everett ticket Among his associates were
A. H. Garland and Hugh F. Thompson. All
were strong Unionists, but after the excitement
attendant upon Lincoln's election ald in tho
war feeling that spread over the South
after the firing upon Sumter. Col. Fell
lows enlisted in the First Arkansas Regi-
mont under Col. James J. Pagan. He
served through the war with distinction on the
Confederate side. He was a Colonel on the stan
of Gen. Beale and was in many important en-
fragments. He returned to Camden after the
war and resumed the practice Of law. In
1866 he was elected q State Senator and served
until the military bill abolished civil govern
ment In the State, when he became a nom Der OF
the law firm of Brown, Carleton & Fellows. He
was q delegate to the National Democratic Con-
vention held In this city in 1868, which nomi-
mated Seymour and Blair. A week before the
Convention he made o speech In the Cooper
Union which impressed Coy. Seymour so much
mn IA Ind a Ia nln tn am | ~ - IA tar
the Convention and take part in the canvass;
Afterward he prevailed upon the Colonel
Fellows practised law until he was APP
pointed an assistant under District Attor-
n jagi Ga K. Ph. Ms 's q kepn nBn yssFs wa an' aIe ssni
District Attorney, when he returned to private
practice. Between this time and 1881. when
served q term Of two years as counsel to the
Excise Board, He was rsappointed an assistant
In the ONCE during the terms OF Peter Is. Oiney
Col. Fellows has figured conspicuously in the
Democratic National Conventions of the last
twonty-eight years and achieved y national rep
utaiion as an orator. In the Convention Of 1884.
shared honors with Bourke Cochran as a leader
of the Tammany Hall delegation. lie made a
famous sound money SPEECH at Chicago in
Convention week this year and played q promi-
nent part at the Indianapolis Convention. He
was the Spokesman for The committee that noti-
lion for Vice resident by the National Dsrnoc-
racy. In 1887 Col. Fellows received the Demo
was easily elected over De Lancey Nicoli. At the
expiration Of his term no was elected to
Congress from the Sixth district to succeed
Turner the lceman. In 1899 he was the Tam
many candidate for District Attorney, and was
agaiil elected. Recorder Goff was his opponent.
In the fall NJ 1914 charges were brought against
him by Representatives OF the Good Government
clubs and the German American Reform Union,
but after a hearing before Commissioners Lin
groundless. Col. Fellows has been noted for
brilliancy as a criminal lawyer. and for the abll-
ity 10 sum up a case accurately before n Jury
without reference to the evidenre or a single
note. While he has been Public Prosecutor
many famous murder cases have been tried.
nand Ward, and Jacob sharp. Aldermen Jaehne,
McQuade. and O'Seil. He personally supcrin.
tended the control OF the prosecution OF the
police officials indicted as a result OF the Lexow
committee Investigation.