The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-06-07
DANIEL G. FOwLE.

Dduic1 ". EOWIC WHO was uOInludt6Q
as the Democratic candidate for
Governor of this State was born in
the town of Washington, in Beaufort |
county, North Carolina, on the Sd of |
March, 1881. At the age of fourteen
he was entered at the school of North |
Carolina's most celebrated teacher
William Bingham, where he remained
until he matliculated at Princeton
New Jersey, at the age of sixteen.
W hile at Princeton he was appoint.
ed by the literary society of which he
was member, junior orator, and ac-
quilted himself SO we'll as to call forth
a complimentary and particular men
tion by one of the leading N. Y. dali
lies. The Hon. Barnes Compton, now
a member of Congress from Mary
land, was at the same time a Junior
orator appointed by another of the lit
erary socities.
In 1851, he graduated at Prince
ton, and having studied law under
Judge Pearson for two years, was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1853, and in 1854
settled in Raleigh. In 1856 he mar.
ried Ellen Brent, daughter of Hon.
r. M. Pearson, who died in 1862,
leaving two children, Margaret, now
wife of P. III. Andrews and Martha,
wife of David B. Avera, of Raleigh.
On the surrender of Fort Sumter
and the proclamation of Lincoln call
ing for troops to coerce the seced-
ing States, he volunteered as a pri-
vate in company known as the Ra-
leigh Rifles, and upon the organiza-
tion of the company was elected Sc.
ond lieutenant. Upon the organiza
tion of the State milit-y department
he was appointed Major of the COM
missary department. In the summer
of 1861 he resigned his commission,
helped to raise the regiment after
wards known as the 31st, was made
captain of one its companies, then lieu
tenant colonel of the regiment, and
and at Roanoke Island, where he was
captured by Burnside's forces, ,Februa-
| ry 8, 1862, and after short imprison-
ment, paroled. In October 1862, he
was elected to House of Commons from
Wake county, and upon the adjourn
ment of the legislature was appointed
Adjutant General Of North Carolina
with the rank of Major General In
the tall of 1868 he resigned this COM
mission. In 1864 he ran for the
House of Commons from Wake ON the
anti Holden ticket and was the only
one ON this ticket who was elected. In
| 1865, during his absence from home
was appointed judge of the Superior
Court by Gov. Holden, and was by
the legislature of 1865 Sc elected t.
the same office for life. In Novem
Der, 1857 he resigned this office rather
than obey and enforce the orders o.
General Sickles, then Military Cover
nor of North and South Carolina He
was Democratic candidate for the
!. convention of 1867 and was defeated
but led his ticket by over hundred
votes. In 1868 he was chairman O
, the State Democratic committee ant
: threw his whole energy into tha
: campaign. In 1870 he was one of tn,
) Democratic candidates for the Stat
7 Senate from the counties of Franklin
and Wake, reduced the Republican
2 majority of twelve hundred to TIVE
E hundred and again led his ticket.
E In 1876 he was Democratic elect
or for the State at large and upon tn
election of Tilden, so conspicuous AM
. pre- eminent had been his canvass tina
the members of the N. G.. Electors
= College recommended him to tn
. President and requested that he b
: appointed Attorney General of tn
hn N y
didate for the Democratic nomination
for Gov, was defeated by Hon. Thos
n J. Jarvis, and during that campaig
|: thoroughly canvassed the State TO
Il his late competitor, making some sixt
J. speeches in different parts of th
e State, from the mountains to the SCI
e In 1872 he canvassed Chatham an
r made speeches in other counties of tt
It State in behalf of the Democratic car
didate tor Governor. In 1873 he a
sisted Hon. W. H. Kitchin in h
J. canvass for Congress, making speech
II in Scotland Neck, Wilson, Goldsbor
. and Newberne. In 1884 he was
h candidate for the nomination for Coz
It gress, was defeated by Hon. w. r. Co
d but during that campaign his el
!. quent voice was heard in forty or fif
,e counties of the State pleading for t
N glorious principles Of the Democrat
Is party During the session of t
,e Legislature of 1S84-5 all the Den
If cratic members of that body I'D tied
+. a petition to President Cleveland T
to questing him to appoint Judge Fow
Solicitor General. In that petit
they said, among other things:
"It you see fit to appoint any ci
he zen of the State to oficei we respe
as fully ask that the Office of Solicit
70 General be given to'the Hon. Dan
1d G. Fowle. While upon the bench
ne this State, and ever since, Jud
ne Fowle has shown a devotion to dt
ny which, combined with his great alb
ed ty as lawyer, fit him for any LEI
=; =. office within the gift of the Cove
Is ment."
mt In 1886 he made speeches in Oran
a Alamance and Wake counties in
ne half of the Democratic nominee
Ii; Congress.
ed We failed to mention in its chro
logical order, that in January, Is
he married Miss Mary E., only dau
tes ter of DIR. F. j. Haywood, of Ralei
on | who died in A nril 1894. leaving I