Bio of FOWLER, Charles Rollin (b.1869), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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CHARLES ROLLIN FOWLER - Vol II, pg 266-269
A representative of the bar since 1892 and engaged in active practice in
Minneapolis since 1893, Charles Rollin Fowler is now a member of the prominent
and well known law firm of Fowler, Carlson, Furber & Johnson. He was born in
Jordan, this state, on the 17th of September, 1869, his parents being Rollin D.
and Jane (Varner) Fowler. The mother was a representative of an old Quaker
family and it was in the year 1853 that the parents became residents of
Minnesota, removing westward from Warren county, Ohio.
Charles Rollin Fowler spent the first sixteen years of his life at the place of
his nativity and the public school system there afforded him his educational
opportunities. In 1885 he became a resident of Minneapolis, where he has since
made his home with the exception of a brief period of two years. One twelvemonth
was spent in Glencoe, Minnesota, and then following his graduation from the
University of Minnesota as a law student in 1892, he located for practice at
Fargo, North Dakota, where he remained for about a year. In 1893 he returned to
Minneapolis and through the intervening period, covering three decades, has been
a representative of the bar of this city. From the beginning he has been
unusually prosperous in every respect. In the year 1905 he formed a partnership
with Judge W. A. Kerr, under the firm style of Kerr & Fowler, and subsequently
they were joined by Judge Fred V. Brown, under the firm name of Brown, Kerr &
Fowler. After a brief period, however, the senior partner withdrew to become
general attorney for the Great Northern Railroad at Seattle, at which time the
old firm style of Kerr & Fowler was again assumed and was thus used until
January 1, 1913, when John R. Ware and Fred N. Furber were admitted to the
partnership, under the name of Kerr, Fowler, Ware & Furber. Following the death
of Judge Kerr the firm became Fowler, Carlson, Furber & Johnson and has so
existed since 1920, occupying a commanding position at the Minneapolis bar. For
a number of years Mr. Fowler has also been resident vice president of the
American Surety Company of New York.
On the 5th of November, 1895, Mr. Fowler was united in marriage to Caroline
Blair Jones of Tiffin, Ohio. She is now very prominent in club and social
circles of the city and takes a most active part in political work among women,
being treasurer of the Republican Women's Club. She is also much interested in
benevolent and uplift work and is a director of the Northwestern Hospital and of
the Women's Welfare League. In political activity, as well as along many other
lines, there is full sympathy between Mr. and Mrs. Fowler, for the former has
been a stalwart republican since age conferred upon him the right of franchise
and has long been active and influential in party ranks. In 1910 he was elected
to the state legislature, wherein he served for the full term, giving earnest
and thoughtful consideration to all the vital questions which came up for
settlement. In 1918 he was chosen to represent his district in the state senate
and in both house and senate was connected with many important legislative
enactments. During the World war he was very active in support of the government
and gave unsparingly of his time to further the interests of the cause. He
served as chairman of the lawyers' committee on the First Liberty Loan campaign
and was general of the twenty-first division in the Second, Third and Fourth
Loans, while he also served as chairman of the third district of the selective
service committee, giving generously of his time and means to every agency that
promoted the interests of the soldiers in camp and field.
Mr. Fowler became a member of the Delta Chi fraternity when a student in the
University of Minnesota and in 1897 was president of the Law Alumni Association.
He has twice served as vice president of Minnesota of the American Bar
Association. He belongs to the Minneapolis Civic & Commerce Association, which
is one of the indications of his interest in civic welfare and public progress
in the city. In club circles his membership connection is with the Minneapolis,
Minneapolis Athletic and Minikahda clubs, of which latter two he was president
in 1916; the Minneapolis Automobile Club, the Lafayette Club, the University
Club and the Minnesota Club of St. Paul. Mr. Fowler served with the Minnesota
National Guard from 1886 until 1891 as a member of Company B of the First
Regiment. Fraternally he is a Mason, an Elk and a member of the Royal Arcanum,
while his religious faith is that of the Episcopal church. His ideals of life
are high and his methods for their achievement are practical. He has ever been a
man of action rather than of theory and the subjective and objective forces in
his life are well balanced, for he has never allowed personal interests so to
monopolize his time as to exclude his active participation in those events
wherein the public welfare is a matter of deep concern.