The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-01
C. H. FOWLER DEAD Once One of the City's Most Prominent Lawyers Passes
 Away at "A. USEFUL CAREER ENDED Retained in Defense of Jef Da'is' ioi Whom He Got Bond from
 Horace Greeley.

The death of Charles Holt Fowler comes as a great shock to wide ae- quaintance in legal. political. church and charitable circles, in which MT. Fowler was well known and highly honored He was 74 years old. Death came shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday morning and was due to a general breakdown, due to advancing years anu a complication of asthma and heart diseases. He had been failing for some months. Often he has been attacked of late during the night by loss or breath which would make breathing very difficult. But his constitution has been so rugged all his life that his in dominable ambition would not admit defeat. The end came suddenly. MT. Fowler had been out within week. He was attended by Dr. Willis H. Grove of Whalley avenue.
 The funeral services will be held at Christ church Sunday afternoon at o'clock and will be of the simplest character, such as would suit the de- ceased best. The simple Episcopal ser vice will be used and there will be no music. The services at the house will be omitted Rev. Dr. c. R. Morgan rector of Chrit church where Mr. Fow- Ter has been vestryman for over + years. will officiate. The body will be buried the same afternoon in East Ha- ven cemetery, where the Knights Tenn plar of whom Mir. Fowler was a mem Der, will take charge
 One or two characteristics predom- mated in Mr Fowler to an extraordin- ary degree. These were his great love of his family and his devotion to his home life. his faithfulness to his church and his capacity for work. Not for years before his death had he taken a vacation of any extent. His devotion to his two twin daughters has been of late years subject of universal com ment.
 MT. Fowler was the son of David Sullivan Fowler and Charlotte Holt Fowler. He was born March r., 1883 which would have made him nearly :; years of age at the time of his death although he did not look nearly that His father was sheriff of the county for two terms He was the first man to hold the title of high sheriff. It was during his term of office that the pres ent jail on Whalley avenue was built The jail now stands but a block from the Fowler home. at 205 Whalley ave. nue, where Mir. Fowler died.
 He was registered, upon leaving the medical school, as a physician of the homeopathic school. He then entered the Yale Law school and graduated with the class of '62. At the time of his death he was secretary of his class At that time the law school was sit- uated on Grown street in the old opera house. There were not more thar twenty-five or thirty pupils in the school at the time. Upon graduating MT. Fowler Immediately went into tht 1 practice of law in partnership with thu late Judge Dutton, who was one o l the leading practitioners of the time At the same time Mr Fowler was z tutor in the Yale Law school
 l SMr. Fowler later went more especial ly into the practice of patent law whicl work took him to New York, Wash ington and the south. After the civi war he was intimately associated witt Charles O'Connor in the defense of lief ferson Davis. He and Mir O'Conno got up the defence for the trial of Da wis but the case never came up. To gether they induced Horace Greeley then editor of the New York Tribune