Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Fowler, Moses 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Dr. Moses Fowler, practicing physician, Veedersburg, is the son of Robert and
Elizabeth (Hines) Fowler. He was born in Kentucky, where he was reared till he
was nine years of age, when his father, a school-teacher, died in 1828, aged
forty-two years, leaving him an orphan, his mother having died when he was but a
small child. Dr. Fowler then came, in 1830, to Fountain county with his uncle,
James Hines, and took up his abode with his uncle, Moses Hines. His grandfather
was a native of Loudoun county, Virginia, and lived to be a centenarian. Dr. F.,
by his own exertion and close application, was able to teach school at the age
of eighteen, which he followed at intervals till 1868. He read medicine under
Dr. Roland, of Chambersburg, in 1841 and 1842; was elected sheriff of Fountain
county in 1854, and served two years; was admitted to the bar to practice law in
1856, which he followed six years; served as a soldier in the Mexican war during
the years 1857 and 1858; served three years as a soldier in the late rebellion,
in the 43d Ind. Vols., during which time he was corporal, company clerk,
commander of the militia at Little Rock, Arkansas, provost marshal, and
enrolling officer. When he returned home from the army he took up the practice
of medicine, which he still continues with good success. He was married in 1843
to Joanna Furr, who died in 1855, by whom he had six children, all dead but
America, now Mrs. Cox. He was married a second time, in 1855, to Sarah S.
Getchell, who died in 1872. By this union he had five children, three of whom
are living: Henry S., Isa G. and Ida M. The doctor was formerly a Jackson
democrat, but now a strong republican. Few men have been more observant of the
progress of Fountain county than he, and much that will appear in the history of
Van Buren township we are obliged to credit to him.

Additional Comments:
Van Buren Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.

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