The Republican journal., 1902-02-27
JUDGE FOGLER'S FUNERAL.
Impressive Services Beautiful Tribute b,
Rev. E. NJ. Chaplin to the Dead Jurist.

JOOoS COSACA UNEkAL.
Impressive Services. Beautiful Tribute bv
Rev. E. NJ. Chaplin to the Dead Jurist.
Every place of business in Rockland was
closed last Thursday afternoon, and flags
were at half-mast during the funeral of the
late Justice William Il. Fogler of the
Maine Supreme Court. The services were
at the Uniyersalist church. The remains
were escorted from the house to the church
by Claremont Commandery, K. T., Edwin
county bar, county and city officials, sheriff
and deputies. The services began at 3
O'Clock, and at that time the church was
filled with sorrowing throng. The chancel,
before which rested the remains of the hon
Ored dead, was mass of beautiful flowers.
There were tributes from the friends of the
dead jurist that were tit for king.
There was pathos about the funeral, in
that there were no near relatives of the
dead present. But the State and the
representative men of Maine were present
in person or by proxy. The chief executive
Farnham of his military staff. The bench
was represented by Justices Savage,
Powers and Peabody, and Recorder Gen.
llamlin of Bangor, and Seth NJ. Carter of
Auburn.
Belfast sent a large delegation, including
R. W. Rogers, F. A Greer, F. ". Brown, A.
A Howes, Col G. p. Lombard, W. p.
Thompson, r. F. Dunton, J. r. Dunton, ID.
\. Bird, postmaster \. |. Brown, Sheriff 5.
G. Norton of Waldo, Mrs. W. B. Swan, c. f.
johnson, recorder of Palestine commandery,
and Tileston Wadlin, clerk of courts for
Waldo County. Among those present were
J. 0. johnson of Liberty, Ellery Bowden Of
Winterport, Frank F. Southard and Judge
Fogg of Bath, 0. d. Castner and W. H.
Miller of Waldoboro, W. II. Hilton of Dam
ariscotta, NJ. F. Hanley of Appleton, and
Arthur Ritchie of Liberty.
The services were most impressive. The
organst, Carrie Burpee Shaw, played
drge as the remains were borne down the
aisle and the Fleur de Lis Quartette sang
Rosslni's Stabat Mater, Quando Corpus and
the Dead March from Saul with pathetic
effect.
The pail bearers were D. \. Mortland,
president of the Knox County Bar Associa-
tion, A. S. Littlefield and L. \. Starrett of
Rockland, J. E. Moore of Thomaston, and c.
o. Montgomery of Camden; honorary pail
bearers, Gen. Hamlin, and Messrs. Carter
and Dunton. The interment was in Bay
Point cemetery.
The eulogy Of Rev. f. NJ Chaplin, who con-
Quoted the services, was a touching tribute
to the memory of the dead He said:
When we come to die no one shall speak
more fitting tribute of us than our lives.
puI NOluS IHuSl D6 pOtI anu tHplS
if they are not elected by something truly
admirable, heroic and lovable in the depart
ed Your presence here on this occasion
attests that Judge Fogler was your friend,
or if he was not your friend that he was at
least one who had won your respect and
favor. | do not know what better or more
fitting tribute we can pay to his memory
now than to let his life in the simplest and
directest manner possible speak for itself.
WealnSuld not say that the life of Judge
FoglSA~ls unusual; but rather that it was
typical-typical, indeed, of many of the
sired in American life. We could hardly
say that he was a child of good fortune, for
he was never unduly favored. He partook
of the virtues. and, no doubt, to a degree,
of the vices of the whole. But the course
of his life was an ever upward and progress
sive one. He learned until the very last.
Every experience through which he passed
was wrought into the substance of inteli-
gence and character. | am sure the Judge
was never such d man-that he never ap-
preached nearer to the heroic; and. will
venture to say, the sanity, than during
these last four weeks he spent with us.
He was staggering as We all know under
a heavy load of ill-health and grief, and
still he bore up with a fortitude, a resolu-
ton, and even a cheerfuiness, which be-
tokened the rare spiritual strength he had
attained. He fought the battle of life till
llt NelS ldSt anu tlltu pIdctlcdlIy Win tue
weapons of warfare still in his hands.
But such ability and power as this does
not come without a lifelong discipline.
Whatever the Judge did he did because he
had trained himself for that very thing.
lie was not only persistent but a consci
entious worker. He found his inspiration
in honorable and faithful toll; and this
after all is the inspiration of TIL greatest
and the most reliable genius. From this
basis alone | would be willing to predict
that The work done by Judge Fogler during
the last two or three years he has been
upon the bench in this State will stand the
test OF time, because it was done out OF the
purest and the profoundest motive.
But l have already stated that Judge
FOgler was in no sense a favOrite of fortune.
From childhood he made his own way in
lite: His parents were poor, and were able
to do little or nothing in the way of giving
him a start in life. He earned the money
himself to get the collegiate training he had.
He was fond of relating some of his ex-
perlenceS as a school teacher, and of the
triumphS he early won over unruly boys; !;
and over his own, as he himself character
lied it, ugly and almost ungovernable
temper.
OF course a young man with such spirit
as this was bound to rise in the world. In
early manhood he located in the city of Bel
fast, and it was there that the greater part
OF his Hfe was passed, and many of his
greatest successes achieved. Though he
has been away from that city about twelve
years there are those in this audience to-
day from that place whose presence attests
that his memory there is still fresh. 1t was
there in the year 1862 he was first admitted
to the bar. 1t was there that in this same
year he went as captain in the 18th Maine
regiment to join the army of the Potomac,
and by gallant service in such ever memora-
Bile battles as charlottesville, Gettysburg,
Spots tsylvania, and others equally notable,
earned the rank of major and finally that of
lieutenant-colonel Having been severely
wounded in the battle of the Wilderness,
Colonel FOgler was discharged from the
army in 1864 and took up his residence
again few months later at Belfast, where
he remained until he removed to Rockland
in 1890. During all this time he was not
only rising in his profession as lawyer :;
but he was growing in the esteem of all as
good citizen. For at length the people of
Belfast elected him to serve as mayor.
Since he removed to this city Colonel
FOgler has served the city N the legislature,
as solicitor, and as trustee of the public
library. In 1898 he was appointed associate
justice of the Maine supreme court.
These statistics recount in the briefest
outline the constant and steady growth of
the man. He was enlarged by every service
He was more to himself and more to the
world by all that he undertook to do.
But something should be said here of
Judge Fogler as a companion and friend
| am sure that all those who have in any
way come into even casual assC sCciation with
him will attest that he was one Of the most