Towler, John
educator, author, was born June 20, 1811, in England. He is an English educator who settled in America in 1850, was a professor in Hobart college, Geneva, N. Y., in 1853-82, and subsequently lived at Orange, N. J. Beside publishing a number of works on photography, he was co-editor of Hilpert's German and English Dictionary.
TOWLES, MRS. CATHERINE WEBB, author, poet, was born Oct. 25, 1823, in Charlemont, Mass. She has received honorary degrees from southern colleges. She has published Tales for the Freemason's Fireside; The Three Golden Links; and Poor Claire, or Life Among the Queer.