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Fowler, Harriet Putnam

author, was born July 25, 1842, in Danversport, Mass. She received her education at the schools of her native town; and at Bradford Female seminary, where she excelled in rhetoric and composition. In 1879 she published a work entitled Vegetarianism, the Radical Cure for Intemperance. Then appeared from her pen a novel entitled Our Smoking Husbands and What to Do With Them. She is now collating a series of ancestral books of genealogy and heraldry, which will form a rich legacy to posterity. She is able to trace her descent through sixteen generations to Catherine Chaucer, sister of Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English poetry. She has fine poetic talent and is the author of a book of poems entitled Puritan Bluebells.