BIOGRAPHY OF MOSES FELLOWS of Manchester NH
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Manchester, A Brief Record of its Past and A Picture of Its Present, 
including an account of is settlement and its growth as town and city; 
a history of its schools, churches, societies, banks, post-offices, 
newspapers and manufactures; a description of its government, police 
and fire department, public buildings, library, water-works, 
cemeteries, streets, streams, railways and bridges; a complete list of 
the selectmen, moderators and clerks of the town and members of the 
councils, marshals and engineers of the city, with the state of the 
cote for mayor at each election; the story of its part in the war of 
the rebellion with a complete list of its soldiers who went ot the war; 
and sketches of its representative citizens; Manchester N.H.; John B. 
Clark; 1875
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THE HON. MOSES FELLOWS
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Moses Fellows was born at Brentwood, NH, November 7, 1803. He is the son
of Simon and Dorothy (Bartlett) Fellows, and one of a family of three
sons and four daughters, all of whom but one--Hannah, wife of John Calef
of this city--survive.  George, Stephen and Ploome, the wife of John
Gordon, reside in Brentwood [NH]; Dorothy, widow of the late Samuel
Hanson, and Sally, widow of the late Richard Bartlett, reside in
Kingston [NH].
  Mr. Fellows spent the early part of his life in Brentwood, upon his
father's farm and in his store, acquiring an education in the district
school, and in 1826 went into business for himself, continuing in
Brentwood until May 1833, when he removed to Manchester [NH], taking up
his abode in that part of it known as Moore's Village or Goffe's Falls,
where he has ever since resided.  For nineteen years he continued in
business there, nearly all of the time a whole-sale manufacturer of
shoes, but he met with reverses and retired from business in 1852 and
has since occupied himself in the cultivation of his farm. Mr. Fellows,
while in Brentwood, was a member of the state militia, being 
commissioned captain, but resigned in 1827. After his coming to
Manchester, he was chairman of the board of selectmen in 1842,
1843 and 1846, and also in the latter year a member of the first board
of aldermen the city chose.  In 1847 and 1848 he was sent as 
representative to the legislature and was mayor of the city in 1850 and
1851. Captain Fellows married July 5, 1829 Mrs. Nancy Bartlette, by
whom he had one daughter, who died in 1853.
  In the early days of the city, Mr. Fellows, a manufacturer of shoes
upon a large scale and with many men in his employ, was a prominent
citizen and had a large influence. He is a very genial man, courteous
and affable, entertaining in conversation and so very companionable,
and has many warm friends who were ready to make sacrifices for him.
Since he retired from business, however, he has mixed little in 
public life, and has had no opportunity to developer his stronger
characteristics.

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