Partly-printed DS as president, signed “Wm. H. Taft,” one page, 20 x 15.75, March 2, 1910. President Taft appoints Chapman W. Fowler as a “Notary Public for the District of Columbia.” Signed neatly at the conclusion by William H. Taft and countersigned by Acting Attorney General Lloyd W. Bowers. The original Department of Justice seal remains affixed to the lower left. In very good to fine condition, with edge tears and paper loss, all easily matted out if desired.
Chapman Whitfield Fowler (1876-1950) worked six decades in Washington, D.C, most of that time as an active, independent attorney. He married Mary Alice Crook in 1898 and the couple had a daughter, Alice Virginia, in 1899 and son, Howell, in 1903. Fowler handled patent, real estate, personal injury, bankruptcy, criminal, probate, and divorce cases, and he represented several police officers and former officers in court and before the Police Board. One newspaper headline, a District Supreme Court case in 1921, involved Helen Wood, who hired Fowler to sue her husband, Arden F. Wood, for annulment of their marriage, claiming that she found out two months after marrying him that he already had a wife in North Carolina.
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