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From Past and present of Saline County, Missouri (1910), Portrait and biographical record of Lafayette and Saline counties, Missouri : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and portraits of all (1893)
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Our subject was one in a family of seven children. John, his eldest brother, was born in Kentucky, May 23, 1824, and died in that State in 1849; Daniel B. was born in Kentucky in 1836, married Miss Wolgamot, and died in Colorado in 1884, leaving four children; Robert was born in Kentucky in 1840, married Miss Huston, of Scotland County, Mo., where he is a physician, and they have a family of seven children; Elizabeth, who was born in Kentucky in 1830, married John Winston, became the mother of six children, and resides in Saline County, Mo., where Mr. Winston is engaged in farming; Sarah J. was born in Kentucky, married Dr. Asbury, of Lewis County, Mo., and they had a family of four children.
In Saline County, in 1865, our subject married Miss Mary F. Thomson, who was born January 7, 1838, on the farm where she now lives. They are the parents of six children: Robert, born in 18G6; Susie in 1870; Donald, born in 1872, now teaching school in LaFayette County; Effie, born in 1875; Celliein 1877; and Mamie in 1879; all are at home. The eldest daughter finished her education at Hardin College, in Mexico, Mo., in 1889.
Our subject is a man of broad knowledge, having acquired an excellent education at the Morgan
Academy, Burlington, Ky. His schooling ended, he went to Texas, where he engaged in trading stock between that State and Mexico for some three years. After driving a large herd of cattle to Chicago, where he sold them, he came to Missouri. His first business venture in this State was that of cattle trading, but at the outbreak of the war he enlisted in the army under Martin Greene, who was the commander of the Greene Regiment. They were stationed for some time in Monticello, Mo., and their first battle was at Athens, Iowa, whence they went to join Price, and also took part in the Lexington fight. ( )ur subject was taken prisoner at Cane Hill, Ark., in Price's last raid and was paroled.
In 1865, Mr. Fowler retired from the army and resumed his business of farming and stock-raising. At the present time, he has a farm of three hundred and thirty-five acres, situated on the highway running east of Slater, and the land to-day is worth 65 per acre. The principal productions are corn, wheat and hay, in raising which Mr. Fowler has met with success. While not a member of any church, he is a liberal supporter of all religious measures. His wife and four of the children are connected with the Baptist Church. Socially, our subject has been a Mason for some twenty-five years. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Sappington School Fund for the education of poor and orphaned children of Saline County, Mo., which position he has held for twenty years. Politically, he is a Democrat, and takes an active interest in the affairs of his party.
As printed in Portrait and biographical record of Lafayette and Saline counties, Missouri : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and portraits of all (1893). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
WILLIAM G. FOWLER.
The varied career of William G. Fowler, one of the best known citizens of Cambridge township, Saline county, is one fraught with more than ordinary interest, for he has been a man of action and courage, has faced dangers in strange countries in travel and military campaign, and in business affairs he has also proven himself to be possessed of those commendable qualities that win, and now, as the shadows of the evening of life are lengthening, he can look backward over a life well spent and hosts of warm friendships which he has formed all along the way. He is a native of historic Boone county, Kentucky, where he was born March 2, 1834, and where he received a good education in the district schools and the academy at Burlington, Kentucky. He is the son of John B. and Mary ( Stillwell ) Fowler, the former a native of r>(.)cjne county also, where he was born in 1800; the latter was born in Maysville, Kentucky, about 1808 or 1810. They spent their lives on a farm in Boone county, where they were known as successful, hard working and honest. Mr. Fowler died there in 1855, having been preceded to the grave by his wife in 1840. They were the parents of six children, of whom William G., of this review, was the second in order of birth, and liesides him only- one other child is living in 1909, Dr. Robert M. Fowler, of Schuyler county, Missouri.
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As printed in Past and present of Saline County, Missouri (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Their biographies name William G. Fowler: Robert K. Thomson (b. 1829)
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