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Circuit, comprising the counties of Prince of Virginia. He graduated in the law George's, Calvert, Charles and St. Mary's. school of Washington and Lee University This was in February, 1890. In August, in June, 1871. Settled in Cumberland, 1891, the Judge was nominated by the Md., in August, 1871, and continued the Democratic convention at Port Tobacco, practice of law there until he was appointed and he was elected in the following fall Chief Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit to the Court of Appeals, for the full con by Governor Frank Brown, on May 1, 1893. stitutional term of fifteen years. He is a He was elected to that position at the gen member of his party's State central com eral election held in November, 1893, which

mittee, and an active position he still holds. worker in his official I As Chief Judge of position. During his the Circuit Court he brief time on the is an assoc.ate judge Bench, he has deliv of the Court of Ap ered a number of peals of Maryland. important opinions, The only office ever among which may held by him prior to be mentioned the fa his appointment as mous " oleomargar judge is that of ine" decision, the State's attorney for opinion on the con Allegany County, to stitutionality of a which he was elected statute allowing in November, 1875, "guaranty compan and held the office ies " to become sole for one term of four sureties on bonds, years. the decision of the He married Bessie gambling case in 76 M. Thurston, of Maryland Reports, Cumberland, Md., by holding that the stat whom he has three ute of " 9th Anne" children living in is in force in this Cumberland. State, and makes a DAVID FOWLER. whole debt void Judge David where any portion of it was contracted with Fowler is the second son of the late Hon. reference to a " gambling consideration," Robert Fowler, for many years an influen and many others. tial and prominent citizen of the State, and at one time treasurer. He was born in Andrew Hunter Boyd was bom in Washington County in 1836, graduated at Winchester, Virginia, July 15, 1849. He the College of St. James, near Hagerstovvn, was the youngest son of the Rev. Dr. A. 1858, along with a number of men who H. H. Boyd, a Presbyterian minister, who afterward became prominent. He came to resided at the time of his death in Winches Baltimore, studied law with Brown & Brune, ter, Va. He was educated at private was admitted to the Bar in 1862, and at schools in Winchester and at Washington once engaged in practice in the city. For College (now Washington and Lee Univer some years he occupied an office adjoining sity) at Lexington, Va., and the University that of Mr. Charles J. M. Gwinn, for whom,