The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-04-15
DEATH or GOV. FowLE.
Governor Holt Sworn In.
Charlotte Chsrohicle.

1 DclUfe bflS SOU 1ttu bcbblGu On
! the grave of the able Secretary
Saunders, Governor Fowle was
stricken down with heart fail
ure, and has gone. The state
| is donbIy bereaved, by the loss
Of these two faithful officers
from its executive department.
The Governor had lived to ap-
point Col. Saunders successor,
and followed him
Gov. Fowle is the third Gov
ernor to die in Office. The war
Governor Ellis died I'M Office in
1861, and Todd X. Caldwell pass
ed away in 1874, while he was
the Governor of the state.
The most useful and most
brilliant period of his career was
not while he was the Governor
Of North Carolina, but it was at
the time the state was in the
throes of reconstruction and
when the Democratic party was
trying to rescue it from the mis-
rule and degradation of the
worst element in life. Some Of
his efforts on the hustings, at,
that time were even brilliant.
In the campaigns from 1870 to
1876, he did as much as any
other man to re-establish law
and order and destros the hydra
headed monster thae had been
created by war and that was
swapping the very life OF the
state. Daniel g. Fowle earned
the gratitude Of all North Caro-
linians and he received his Just
deserts, when he was made The
Governor of the state. Truly
that position is a common place
one, but it is regarded well.
He had many of the physical
qualities of the orator, silver
voice, handsome proportions
and personal magnetism. His
mind was emotional, fanciful, I
not profound, not original, but
like the minds Of all orators,
general in its resources Gov
Fowle was frequently chargei
with an offensive display Of
personal vanity, but he was
very broad and kindly in his
nature. lie evidenced passion
ate patriotism and was one Of
the states most valued sons.
SKETCH OF HIS CAREER.
Hon. Daniel q. Fowle was
born in the town o. Wash ng-
ton, IN Beaufort c0trkty, North
Carolina, on the 3rd of March,
1881. At the age Of fourteen
he was entered at the school of
North Cardinals most celebrat-
ed teacher, William Bingham,
where he remained until he ma
triculated at Princeton, New
Jersey, at the age of sixteen. |
While at Princeton he was APP
pointed by the literary society
of which he was a member,
junior orator, and acquitted him.
self SO well as to call forth a
complimentary and particular
mention by one Of the leading |
New York dailies. The Hon. |
Barnes Compton, now a MEM
Der of congress from Maryland, |
was at the same time a junior
orator appointed by another of |
the literary societies
In 1851 he graduated at Prin- /
ceton, and having studied law
under Judge Pearson for two
years and was admitted to the
bar in 1858, and in 1854 settled
in Raleigh. In 1856 he Marie
Ellen Brent, daughter OF Hon. |
X. NJ. Pearson, who died in 'G2, /
leaving two children, Margaret,
now wife OF Il. II. Andrews,
aud Martha, wife of David B.
Asera, Of Raleigh.
On the surrender Of Fort Sum-
ter ahu the proclamation 81
Lincoln calling for troops to
coerce the seeding states, lie
volunteered as q private In d
company known as the Raleigh
Rifles, and upon the organiza-
tion Of the company, was elec-
ted second lieutenant. Upon
the organization Of the state
military department he was ap-
pointed MAJOR of the commits.
5ary department. In the sum-
mer Of 1861 he resigned his COM
helsed TO raise the re-
yiment afterwards known as
the thirty-iifst, was made cap
tain sot one Of its companies.
then lieutenant colonel OF the
and as such served at
Fort Hill, III Beaufort county
and at Roanoke Island, where
he was captured by Burnside's
February s, 1862, and af-
Ter short Imprisonment, parol-
ID. In October, 1862, he was
slected TO the house OF commons
rom Wake county, and upon
lie adjournmentof The legisla-
.ure was appointed atljasant
general of NOrtn 8 lF5la4. xlsa
ne rank Of mal0r ssac.ss III
,he fall Of 1865 he so..is saeI tais
commission. In 1904 ns ran
,or the house Of commons IRON
Wake on the anti.Ii0lden tick.
4, and was the only ono on this
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