406                 WISCONSIN BLUE BOOK


              JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT
  MARVIN B. ROSENBERRY was appointed Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin, February 12, 1916, succeeding
the late Justice John Barnes resigned. Two years later, in April 1918,
he was elected for the residue of the term. In April 1919 he was re-
elected for the regular term ending January 1930, and was again re-
elected in April 1929.
  He was born February 12, 1868, at River Styx, Medina County, Ohio.
Shortly thereafter his parents moved to Fulton, Kalamazoo County,
Michigan. He was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools
until he was sixteen. He attended the Michigan State Normal School at
Ypsilanti for three years, teaching in the meantime to defray his ex-
penses. In the fall of 1890 he entered the Law Department of the Uni-
versity of Michigan. In the summer of 1891 he entered the offices of
Silverthorn, Hurley, Ryan & Jones at Wausau as student and clerk,
where he remained a year and a half. In 1893 he was graduated from
the University of Michigan and began the practice of law at Wausau on
August 23, 1893. On January 1, 1895 he became a member of the firm of
Bump, Kreutzer & Rosenberry which six years later became Kreutzer,
Bird and Rosenberry.
  He was married September 2, 1897 to Miss Kate Landfair at Leslie,
Michigan, who died January 26, 1917, leaving two children, Katherine
and Samuel. On June 24, 1918 Judge Rosenberry was married to Mrs.
Lois K. Mathews, Dean of Women of the University of Wisconsin. In
1926 he was awarded the degree of LL.D. (honorary) by the University
of Michigan and by the University of Wisconsin in 1930.
  He became Chief Justice upon the -death of Chief Justice Vinje on
March 23, 1929.
  CHESTER A. FOWLER was born at Rubicon, Dodge County, December
25, 1862, and spent his boyhood on a farm near Richland Center. He was
graduated from Whitewater Normal School and the College of Letters
and Science of the University of Wisconsin, and was admitted to the
bar of Wisconsin upon state bar examination in 1889 after reading lavv
in the office of D. W. Clements at West Union, Iowa. After practicing
law for five years at Omaha, Nebraska and for eleven years at Portage,
Wisconsin, he was elected judge of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit of
Wisconsin on its creation in 1905 and was reelected four times there-
after without opposition. He served as chairman of the Board of Cir-
cuit Judges for the first ten years of its existence. He was appointed
by Governor Kohler in 1929 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Chief Justice Vinje, and in April 1930 was elected to this position by the
people. In April 1931 he was elected for a ten-year term.
  OSCAR MARION FRITZ was born in Milwaukee on March 3, 1878 where
he attended the public gra-ded and high schools and the Milwaukee Law
School, which is now a department of Marquette University. He was
graduated from the College of Law of the University of Wisconsin in
1901." From 1901 to 1912 he practiced law as a member of a partnership
with Theodore Kronshage, Francis E. McGovern, Guy D. Goff, Walter
Corrigan and Timothy J. Hannan. Prior to his coming to the Supreme
Court he had been Circuit Judge of Milwaukee County for seventeen
years, from 1912 to 1929. He was advanced to the Supreme Court to
succeed Justice Christian Doerfier on May 28, 1929, an-d was unanimously
elected for the balance of the unexpired term in the spring of 1932, and
for the full term in 1934. He had been chairman of the Milwaukee
Board of Circuit Judges for six years, and vice-chairman of the Wiscon-
sin Board of Circuit Judges.
   EDWARD T. FAIRCHILD was born at Towanda, Pennsylvania, June
 17, 1872. He received his early education in the public schools of Dans-