Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-04-08

Daniel &. Fowlc was born III Washing
ton, Beaufort county, N. c., March 3,
1881. At the age of IA he entered Bing-
hams school, where he remained until he
matriculatcd at Princeton, N. :, at the
age of 16. While at Princeton he was ap-
pointed by the literary society of which
he was member, junior orator, and so
acquitted himself as to call forth com
plimentary and particular mention by
one of New York's leading dailies.
In 1851 hegraduatcd at Princeton, and
having studied law under Judge Pearson
for two years. was admitted to the bar
in 1853, and in 1854 settled in Raleigh.
In 1856 he married Ellen Brent, daughter
OF Hon. K. NJ. Pearson, who died in 1862,
leaving two children, Margaret, who
married 2. H. Andrews of Raleigh, and
Martha, wife OF David Avera, of Raleigh
On the surrender of Fort Sumter and
the proclamation OF Lincoln calling for
troops, MIR. Fowle volunteered rs a pri
vate in the Raleigh Rifles, and upon or
ganization Of the company was elected
second lieutenant. When the statr
military department was organized hc
was appointed major OF the commissary
department. In the summer of 1861 he
resigned his commission, assisted i'll rails
ing the regiment afterwards known as
the 3lst, was made captain of one of its
companies, then lieutenant colonel of he
regiment, and as such served at Fort
Hill, in Beaufort county, and at Roam
oke Island, where he was captured by
Burnside's forces February 8, 1862, and
after short Imprisonment was paroled.
In October 1862, he was elected to the
house of commons from Wake county,
and upon the adjournment of the legisla-
ture was appointed adjutant general OF
North Carolina with the rank of major
general. In the fall of 1863 he resigned,
and in 1864 ran on he anti-Holden ticket
for the house of commons from Wake.
He was the only one elected on the ticket.
In 1865, he was appointed judge OF The
superior court by Governor Holden, and
was by the legislature of 1s65-66 elected
to the same office for life. In November,
1867, he resigned this Office rather than
obey and enforce the orders of Gen. Sick
les, then military governor of North and
South Carolina. He was democratic
candidate before the convention OF 1867
and was defeated, but led his ticket by
over hundred votes. In 1865 he was
chairman of the state democratic COM
mittee, and threw his whole energy into
that campaign. In 1870 he was one OF
the democratic candidates for the state
senate from the counties Of Franklin and
Wake, reduced the republican majority
of twelve hundred to two hundred and
again led his ticket. In 1876 he was dem
ocratic elcctor for the state at
large, and upon the election of Tildcn
so conspicuous and prc-eminent had beer
his canvass, that the members of the
North Carolina electoral college recon-
mended him to the president and re
quested that he be appointed attorney
general of the United States, In 1850, ht
was candidate tor the democratic nomi
nation for governor. was dcieatc by Hon
Thos. !. Jarvis, and during that cam
paign thoroughly canvassed the state tol
his late competitor, making some sixty
speeches in different parts OF the state
In 1872 he canvassed Chatham ant
made speeches in other counties of th
state in behalf of the democratic candi
date tor governor. In 1878 he assisted
Hon. w. H. Kitchin in his canvass 10
congress, making speeches in SCOTLAND
Neck, Wilson, Goldsboro, and New
Berne. In 1884 he was candidat
for the nomination for congress, was de
feated by Hon. W. X. Cox, but durini
that campaign his eloquent voice wa
heard in forty or fifty counties of tn
state pleading for the glorious principle
of the democratic party. During the se'
sion of the legislature of 1ss4-1sS5 a
the democratic members of that bod
united in a petition to President Clev'
land requesting him to appoint Judp
Fowle solicitor-general
In January, 1866, Gov, Fowle marie
Mary t., only daughter of DR.. +. ]. Ha,
wood, of Raleigh, who died in Apri
1886, leaving three children. On Jur
80, 1888, he was nominated for COVE
nor BY the democratic party, and electe
by majority exceeding 10000 over h
opponent, o, H, Dockery.