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 The Green Bag Volume XXIII

August, 1911

Number 8

Mr. Chief Justice Whitehouse ILLIAM PENN WHITEHOUSE,

Chief Justice Luciluis A. Emery in view of the latter's desire to lay aside active

in the city of Gardiner, with Lorenzo Clay as a partner. He removed to Augusta in December of 1866, and formed a partnership with George Gifford, which lasted only until June, 1867, when the latter entered journal

work, began his career, like many other

ism on the staff of the Portland Daily

LL.D., of Augusta, the tenth

Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, who has just succeeded

able and successful lawyers, by teach ing school. He was born in Vassalboro, Maine,

April 9, 1842, and is therefore sixty nine years of age. His parents were John Roberts and Hannah Percival

Whitehouse. Besides attending the com

Press, and subsequently became its edi

tor-in-chief. Entering upon a general practice, for which he was well ﬁtted both by apti tude and diligent application, he soon gained the conﬁdence of clients and the community for integrity and ability.

mon school of his own district, working

He was elected city solicitor in 1868

on his father's farm and attending the high school at China, he began at the age of sixteen to ﬁt himself for college at Waterville Academy. Here he made such rapid strides that he was able to enter Colby College in the following September without conditions. He was

and during his incumbency of that oﬁice he defended the city successfully

graduated in 1863 with ﬁrst class honors,

delivering the English oration at Com mencement. He began soon after graduation to teach and was for a time the principal of Vassalboro Academy. Having de

cided upon the profession of law, he ﬁrst entered the oﬁice of the late Sewall Lancaster of Augusta, and afterwards continued his studies with Ex-Senator Hale at Ellsworth. He was admitted

in several important cases. He was appointed County Attorney in 1869 by Governor Chamberlain t0 ﬁll a vacancy caused by the death of the

late Francis E. Webb of Winthrop and was twice elected afterwards to the same oﬁ'ice, serving more than seven years in

all. In this office he increased his repu tation by his efficiency and zealous discharge of his duties. One of the most

important cases tried when he was attor well, ney was indicted that of forState the v. murder Edward of H. John Has B. Laﬁin of Hallowell, in which the late Thomas B. Reed made his ﬁrst appear ance General. for the County government Attorney asAttomey Whitehouse

to the bar in Kennebec county in Octo

ber, 1865. His ﬁrst year's practice was

prepared the case for trial and made