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GEORGE ROBERT FOWLER George Robert Fowler, son
of Asa and Mary Dole Cilley (Knox) Fowler, was born April 25, 1844, at Concord, New Hampshire. He received his
preparatory training at the High School in Concord, and entered College at the beginning of Fall term, August 24, 1860.
He left at the end of the first term of Freshman year, in November, 186o. During the Winter
following, he commenced reading law in the office of his father, Hon. Asa Fowler, of Concord,
New Hampshire. He engaged in agricultural pursuits during the Summer months, and read law
during the Winter. He attended lectures at Harvard Law School, and also at Albany Law School,
and was admitted to the bar of Merrimac County, at Concord, New Hampshire, in November,
1866. He was elected Assistant Clerk of the New Hampshire Senate in 1865, and served two
years in that capacity; the two succeeding years, 1867 and 1868, he was the Clerk of the
same body. He received the honorary degree of Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College in
1868. He commenced the practice of his profession in 1870, at Boston, Massachusetts, where
he has since remained, enjoying a very lucrative practice. In 1876 he formed a copartnership
with his younger brother, W. P. Fowler, of the class of 72, which still exists, under the name of
G. R. & W. P. Fowler, their office being at 56 Summer street.
In 1874 he was appointed by Governor Talbot, of Massachusetts, one of the Associate Justices
of the West Roxbury District Municipal Court, which position he still holds. He has served four
years on the Massachusetts Republican State Central Committee, for two years being a member
of the executive branch of that committee.
His religious preferences are Unitarian.
He was married on April 24, 1873, to Miss Isabel Minor, eldest daughter of Hon. Josiah Minot, of
Concord, New Hampshire. They have three children: Ethel Walker, born December 24, 1874;
Mary Pickering, born January 25, 1877, and Josiah Minot, born May 17, 1880.
Source: "Memorialia of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by John C.
Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884, Chicago
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