Portrait of:
HON. ROBERT FOWLER, State Treasurer and Legislator, born in Frederick
County, Maryland, near the little town of Urbana , July 4, 1812. This firm was composed of himself and Mr. Fred . K. Zeigler ; the former resided in Baltimore County, and attended to the business in the city, while the latter resided in Washington County, and gave his attention to the management of the large flouring mill and distillery owned by the firm , and situated on Antietam Creek, near Lestersburgh, where the celebrated Ziegler whiskey " was manufactured . In the course of a few years, Mr. Fowler had become as well known in the city of Baltimore as he was in Western Maryland , and he and his firm had won a commercial reputation of the highest character, and a credit almost without limit. He was appointed a Director on the part of the State in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, and thus formed an intimacy and friendship with Mr. John W. Garrett, the late Johns Hopkins, and others then identified with the interests of that great corporation, and always retained their confidence and friendship. In 1862 he was elected by the General Assembly of Maryland to the position of State Treasurer, which position he occupied until the year 1870, when he was succeeded by John Merryman , Esq., of Hayfields. . Print Specifics:
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