Frederick P. Bellamy

Frederick P. Bellamy was entitled to the distinction that attaches to the old-fashioned lawyer pictured in professional tradition and in the pages of descriptive fiction. The man who went on practicing law at the age of eighty-two, whose office had remained in the same Brooklyn building during fifty-five consecutive years, was an unusual link with the profession’s longer past. Bellamy was more than this, however. The men who worked with him for many years on the board of the City College will remember first of all his genial and kindly personality, supplemented by clear judgment and by unvarying devotion to the responsibilities of office. He was a good citizen. He took society as he found it, served his day as trustee of two educational institutions in his city, and had no aspiration for the unbearable socialist Heaven pictured by his imaginative brother Edward.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1930 Century Association Yearbook