Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-08-04

Governor Baxter Friday nominated
Guy H. Sturgis Of Portland, former
attorney general, as an associate
justice of the supreme judicial court
to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Albert M. Spear of
Gardiner to become an active retired
justice of the court. The nomina-
ton will be in line for confirmation
at the next session of the governor
and council, which will be held Tues
day, August IA.
Mr.. Sturgis was born in 1877 at
New Glouscester, Cumberland coun-
ty, the only surviving child of John
I. Sturgis and Mira Hayden Sturgis.
His father, DR.. Sturgis, veteran of
the civil war, has practised medicine
in the town of New Gloucester and
county for over half century.
Mr.. Sturgis was educated in the
common schools at New Gloucester,
the grammar school at Auburn, the
Edward Little High school at Au-
burn and at Bowdoin college. He
studied law at Columbia University
and in the office of the late Thomas
B. Reed and the late George NJ. Seid
ers at Portland. He was admitted to
the Cumberland County Bar in Octo-
Der. 1900. He practiced law alone I'M
til 1905 when he entered into partner
ship with the late George NJ. Seiders
and Frank d. Marshall under the firm
name of Soldiers. Marshall and Stur-
gis. He practiced alone again from
1907 until 1911 when he entered into
partnership with Hon. Charles f.
Quincy, the present chairman Of the
Maine Public Utilities Commission.
and with Hon. Carroll S. Chaplin. the
present mayor of Portland, under the
firm name of Quincy, Sturgis and
Chaplin. Since 1913 the firm has
consisted of Mr.. Sturgis and Mr.
Chaplin under the firm name of
Sturgis and Chaplin with Offices in
the Masonic Temple at Portland.
He was admitted to practice before
the circuit court of the District of
Maine March 7, 1902 and was admit
ted as attorney and counsellor of the
supreme court of the United States
on April 10, 1917.
He is a member of the Cumber-
land County Bar Association. the
Maine State Bar Association'and the
American Bar Association.
Mr.. Sturgis was superintendent or
schools of New Gloucester in 1901
and alderman in the city of Portland
in 1912-13 He has heen a member
of the Republican state committee
from Cumberland county since 1914.
He was elected attorney general of
Maine by the legislature of 1917 and
served two terms of two years each,
retiring in 1921 to the private prac-
tice of law at Portland.
He has been married twice. HIS
first wife. Edna L. Bailey of Steep
Falls, Maine. died in 1908. He mar
ried his present wife, Adelaide ID.
Sweeney of Portland in 1908. He
has five living children. Eleanor g.,
a student at Bates college. Guy H.,
Jr. a senior at Portland High school.
John w. entering high school this
fall and Elliott A. and Francis w,
pupils at the Roosevelt school. He
is a Congregationalist in faith.
Mr.. Sturgs is member of Cum
berland Lodge, F. e A. NJ. of New
Gloucester. Mt. Vernon Chapter. X.
A. NJ, of Portland and Rocky Hill
Lodge, Knights of Pythias. of Wood
fords. He belongs to the Woodfords
Club. the Lincoln Club and the Eco
nomic Club.
He lives at sos Brighton avenue.
Portland, and has a cottage at Min
eral Spring Park, North Windham.