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Fowler, Lorenzo Niles

journalist, lecturer, author, was born June 23, 1811, in Cohocton, N. Y. He was one of the founders of the firm of Fowler and Wells, and the author of several phrenological works, the principal of which are Marriage, its History and Ceremonies; and Lectures on Man. He died in 1896.

FOWLER, MRS. LYDIA FOLGER, physician, author, was born in 1823, in Nantucket, Mass. She was the wife of Lorenzo Niles Wells, and a practicing physician for some years. She was the author of Nora, the Lost and Redeemed; The Pet of the Household and How to Save It; Familiar Lessons on Phrenology and Physiology; and Familiar Lessons on Astronomy. She died Jan. 26, 1879, in London, England.

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