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
