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BELLOWS was born in Walpole, New Hampshire. He was educated and fitted for
college in the public schools of Walpole, and the private school of Rev. E. H.
Barslow, Newton Center, Massachusetts, and entered Harvard College in 1859 in the Class of 1863,
but left Harvard in November, 1859, and entered our Class. He remained with us till about
the first of December, 1860, when he returned to his home in Walpole, New Hampshire.
While with us he joined the Kappa Alpha fraternity. In 1862, Bellows began the study of
law in the office of Hon. Frederick Vose, and in March, 1863, he entered the Harvard Law
School and was graduated in 1865 with the degree of LL.B. Afterwards studied law in the
office of George Foster and Sanborn at Concord, New Hampshire, and was admitted to the
bar of New Hampshire in December, 1865. In February of the following year opened a law
office in Walpole and remained till December of the same year, when he removed to
Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1867.
At Concord, New Hampshire, June 26, 1866, our classmate married Miss Annie E.
Morrill, daughter of Dr. Alpheus Morrill, of Concord, in his day a physician of much repute
in New Hampshire. The year following Bellows's removal to Boston, in 1867, he buried his
wife and two infant daughters. On account of this great bereavement the Boston office was
closed. Bellows returned to Walpole and not long after resumed practice in his native town.
In 1868 he returned to Boston, and acted as chief clerk of the United States Pension Agency
till September, 1869, when he resumed law practice in Boston and continued there till 1871.
Then, following the death of his mother in 1871, came several months of travel abroad.
After his return he took up his practice and has continued it ever since in his native town,
Walpole, New Hampshire.
At Walpole, November 21, 1877, Judge Bellows, being at this date judge of the Probate
Court of Cheshire County, New Hampshire, married Miss Katherine H. W. Howland, daughter of Aaron P. Howland, of Walpole. By this marriage there is one child, a daughter,
Mary Howland, born September 18, 1878. Miss Bellows took her preparatory studies in
New York City, at Miss Dana's private school, Morristown, New Jersey ; at Miss Porter's
school, Farmington, Connecticut, and, after four years' study at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, received the degree of
B.L. from that institution in 1901.
The position of our classmate in the New Hampshire bar is to be judged honorable for the
interests committed to his charge. For nearly seventeen years previous to 1894, he was
judge of the Probate Court for Cheshire County, New Hampshire, as has already been
stated. On the first of January, 1894, he was appointed a member of the New Hampshire
Railroad Commission, and had entered upon his third term of three years when, July 26,
1900, he had a slight attack of paralysis and was compelled to resign and give up all
business, "to lie on the shelf for the rest of my life, waiting patiently for the end to come."
During most of the time of service as railroad commissioner, Judge Bellows was clerk of the
commission. In 1893, Bellows held a responsible position as chairman of the New
Hampshire section of a joint commission made by New Hampshire and Massachusetts to
determine "the true jurisdictional line" between these two states, an unsettled question since
1690. The reports of this joint commission were made to the legislatures of the two states
in 1901. Bellows has also held positions in the directorates of the banking institutions of
his native county, especially in Keene and Walpole, and has held various local offices. The
record of a capable and useful man, whose talents have been appreciated and called into
service by his fellow-citizens.
Source:
Class of Sixty-Three Williams College Fortieth Year Report, by
the Class Historian, Thomas Todd Printer, Boston, 1903
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