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THIS classmate under the name of William
Fearey, of Albany, New York, joined our
Class in the autumn of 1859 and remained with us until the close of Sophomore year.
He was the son of Joseph and Barbara Ray (Hartwell) Fearey, and was born in
Steventon, England, December 19, 1841.
After leaving our Class, in the summer of 1861, Fearey became a clerk in the
quartermaster's department of the New York Volunteers during the Civil War.
Following this service he went to the Pacific coast and engaged in the insurance business
in San Francisco, probably until about 1870, when he returned to Albany, and there
entered the retail shoe business with his father, forming the firm of Joseph Fearey &
Son, and this continued to be his occupation until his decease, after an illness of nearly a
year's duration, January 19, 1895.
August 5, 1874, Fearey married Anna E.
Shirland, daughter of Thomas and Eliza Shirland, of Cambridge, New York. They had two sons, Malcolm S.
Fearey, born
December 2, 1875, and Morton L. Fearey, born November 17, 1876. These brothers, the
sons of our classmate, prepared for college at the Albany Academy, and were graduated
from Yale University in the Class of 1898. Malcolm continues the business of his father
and grandfather under the old firm name of Joseph Fearey & Son, while Morton, after
graduation from the Law School of Harvard University, entered a law firm in New York
City, where he still remains.
The only organization to which Fearey belonged while in college was the Greylock
Baseball Club, which was a '63 Class club.
Source:
Class of Sixty-Three Williams College Fortieth Year Report, by
the Class Historian, Thomas Todd Printer, Boston, 1903
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