Background
Wells, Frederic De Witt was born on March 25, 1874 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Oliver J. and Margaret Frederica (Hinman) Wells.
Wells, Frederic De Witt was born on March 25, 1874 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Oliver J. and Margaret Frederica (Hinman) Wells.
Bachelor of Arts, Columbia, 1894, A.M., 1895. Bachelor of Laws, New York Law School, 1896. Studied University of Paris, France.
Practiced in New York, 1897. Republican leader 29th Assembly District, 1906-1908. Member of New York Assembly, 1906, 07.
Judge Municipal Court, New York, 1908-1918. Resumed practice, January 1, 1918. In 1924 purchased the 47 foot ketch “Shanghai” in Denmark, and sailed across Atlantic over Viking trail via Norway, Iceland, Labrador, and Nova Scotia, 1924.
Author: The Man in Court. 1917; The Last Cruise of the Shanghai, 1925.
Member of New York Assembly, 1906, 07.
Married Laura Prime Jay, October 16, 1899.