FOWLER-Moses - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

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 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 applications 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 1841, 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 43rd 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 1842 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.