Charles A. Fowler

Charles A. Fowler (May 10, 1832 – February 7, 1896) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life

Fowler was born on May 10, 1832, in Cold Spring, New York.{{Cite book |last=Clearwater |first=Alphonso T. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A9I4AQAAMAAJ |title=The History of Ulster County, New York |publisher=W. J. Van Deusen |year=1907 |location=Kingston, N.Y. |pages=605 |author-link=Alphonso T. Clearwater |via=Google Books}}

Fowler attended the American Seminary in Dutchess County. When he was 16, he entered Yale College. He had to drop out in 1851, a year before he would have graduated, due to poor health. He then studied law under Azor Tabor in Albany and studied at Albany Law School. He was a member of the first class of the school, became the oldest living graduate by the time he died, and served as president of the Alumni Association in 1885. In 1853, a day before his 21st birthday, he was admitted to the bar. He then practiced law in Chicago, Illinois, for the next few years. In 1859, he opened a law office in New York City and formed a partnership with Alfred Conkling. In 1864, he moved to Ellenville and opened a successful law practice there.{{Cite book|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89061899985&view=1up&seq=226|title=Commemorative Biographical Record of Ulster County, New York|publisher=J. H. Beers & Co.|year=1896|location=Chicago, I.L.|pages=220–224|via=HathiTrust}}

Fowler served as Surrogate of Ulster County from 1868 to 1872. In 1879, he was elected to the New York State Senate as a Democrat, representing New York's 14th State Senate district (Ulster, Schoharie, and Greene Counties). He served in the Senate in 1880{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/eveningjournalal1876amer/page/115/mode/1up|title=The Evening Journal Almanac, 1880|year=1880|location=Albany, N.Y.|pages=115|via=Internet Archive}} and 1881. At some point prior to his election to the Senate, he moved to Kingston.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/eveningjournalal1880slsn/page/n126/mode/1up|title=The Evening Journal 1881 Almanac|publisher=Weed, Parsons & Co.|year=1881|editor-last=McBride|editor-first=Alexander|location=Albany, N.Y.|pages=125|via=Internet Archive}}

Fowler was a member, vestryman, and warden of St. John's Episcopal Church. In 1853, he married Hannah M. Warren, daughter of Cornelius Warren. They had two surviving sons, Cornelius W. and Everett. Everett worked as a law partner with his father for several years under the firm name C. A. & E. Fowler.

Fowler died in Dr. C. O. Sahler's sanitarium in Kingston, where he was for some time, on February 7, 1896.{{Cite news|date=8 February 1896|title=Death of Ex-Senator Fowler|volume=84|page=1|work=The Argus|location=Albany, N.Y.|url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83045592/1896-02-08/ed-1/seq-1/|via=NYS Historic Newspapers}} He was buried in Wiltwyck Cemetery in Kingston.

References

External links

[https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fowler.html#367.35.89 The Political Graveyard]
[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/205227927/charles-a-fowler Charles A. Fowler] at Find a Grave

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| title = New York State Senate
14th District

| years = 1880–1881

| before = Addison P. Jones

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Category:1832 births

Category:1896 deaths

Category:People from Cold Spring, New York

Category:Yale College alumni

Category:Albany Law School alumni

Category:19th-century American lawyers