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He left at the end of the first term of Freshman year, in November,
186o. During the Winter following, he commenced reading law in the office of his father,
Hon. Asa Fowler, of Concord, New Hampshire. He engaged in agricultural pursuits
during the Summer months, and read law during the Winter. He attended lectures
at Harvard Law School, and also at Albany Law School, and was admitted to the bar of
Merrimac County, at Concord, New Hampshire, in November, 1866. He was elected
Assistant Clerk of the New Hampshire Senate in 1865, and served two years in that
capacity; the two succeeding years, 1867 and 1868, he was the Clerk of the same body.
He received the honorary degree of Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College in 1868.
He commenced the practice of his profession in 1870, at Boston, Massachusetts, where
he has since remained, enjoying a very lucrative practice. In 1876 he formed a
copartnership with his younger brother, W. P. Fowler, of the class of 72, which still
exists, under the name of G. R. & W. P. Fowler, their office being at 56 Summer street.
In 1874 he was appointed by Governor Talbot, of Massachusetts, one of the Associate
Justices of the West Roxbury District Municipal Court, which position he still holds.
He has served four years on the Massachusetts Republican State Central Committee, for two
years being a member of the executive branch of that committee.
His religious preferences are Unitarian.
He was married on April 24, 1873, to Miss Isabel Minor, eldest daughter of Hon.
Josiah Minot, of Concord, New Hampshire. They have three children: Ethel Walker,
born December 24, 1874; Mary Pickering, born January 25, 1877, and Josiah Minot,
born May 17, 1880.
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
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