The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-03-17
COL. FOGLER THE MAN
Appointed Associate Justice to Sue
coed Judge Foster.
NEW JUSTICE ABLE LAWYER AND
WELL KNOWN PUBLIC MAN.

Appointment Regarded With Satisfaction
by Lawyers Generally-Judge Haskell
Appointed to Succeed HIMSELF. Il.
Young of Augusta Appointed Member
of the Board of Pharmacy.
Bangor. March 16.-GoY. Powers to-
night after spending seven hours IN the
examination of papers, and IN listening
to friends of candidates, nominated
William H. Fogler of Rockiand to be as
socjate Justice of the Supreme court to
succeed Enoch Foster of Bethel. This
closes the most notable contests on record
in Maine There were several candidates,
including Charles A. Bailey of Bangor.
A. D. Cornish of Lewiston and A. NJ.
Spear of Gardiner. F. H. Appleton and
Charles F. Woodland of Bangor and Leslie
d. Cornish of Augusta was urged by
their friends to become candidates but
declined. The nomination of Mr.. Fogler
is regarded with general satisfaction by
members of the bar. He is an able lawer,
and in every way admirably fitted for the
position of associate justice. These other
nominations were made:
For associate justice of the Supreme
court, to succeed himself, Thomas H.
Haskell of Portland.
For commissioner of pharmacy to sue
ceed Frank r. Partridge of Augusta, j..
F. Young of Augusta.
court, A. 6. Andrews.
William Henry Fogler was born in
Lincolnville, Maine, November 10, 1887.
He is descendant of the oil dutch colony
at Waldoboro. He received the earlier
part of his education in the public
schools, going later to Kents Hill, thence
to the Newbury, VT, seminary. finishing
off at Waterville (now Colby college. In
March, '6l he went to Belfast to study
law. He studied with men who then
stood high in the state and in the May
term, 1862, was admitted to the Waldo
bar.
Before he had time to hang out a
shingle, the war was upon the nation,
and Fogler went to the front as captain
of Co. d, 10Th Maine. During the
Wilderness fight he was promoted to
lieutenant-colonel and then to colonel,
but owing to wound was unable to take
command of his regiment. In November,
1854, he was discharged on account OF HE
wounded knee, and served as provost
marshal for the Fifth Maine district till
tho close of the war.
In 1867 he was appointed deputy collec :
tor of customs at Belfast and after that
resumed his practice of law. His business
grew and when he removed to Rockland
in 1890 he was said to have the largest
practice in Waldo county.
Col. Fogler has been mayor of Belfast,
Judge advocate general of Judge Cleaves' S
staff four years, county attorney of Waldo
for six years, and in '96 was elected to
the legislature. He was so strongly in
the lead for speakership of the next House
that mis- appointment to the Supreme
bench will greatly relieve the tension in
other quarters.
The new judge was made Mason just
before going to the war, being raised in
Phoenix lodge, Belfast, in '62. He took
his Royal Arch degree in 'Grecnleaf
Chapter, Portland, during the war, and
was afterward high priest of Corinthian
Chapter, Belfast. He was the first com
mander of Palestine Commandery, z. T..
Belfast, and is now member OF the
Rockland Commandery. He is past
commander of the G. A. R., post at Bel