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William Worthington Fowler

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William Worthington Fowler

Birth
Middlebury, Addison County, Vermont, USA
Death
18 Sep 1881 (aged 49)
Durham, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Burial
Durham, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA Add to Map
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Hon.

Author and CT Senator. Educated at Phillips Andover Academy and at Amherst, where he graduated in 1854. He studied law at Amherst and in New York City where he was admitted to the bar in 1857. He practiced his profession in New York till 1864, then became a broker, and in 1871 abandoned that business for literature and journalism, settling in Durham. In 1879, he was a member of the Connecticut Senate. He was for twelve years the New York financial correspondent of the Boston "Commercial Bulletin," and was the author of "Ten Years in Wall Street" (Hartford 1870); "Life and Adventures of Benjamin F. Moneypenny"; "Fighting Fire" (1873); "Woman on the American Frontier" (1877); "Twenty Years of Inside Life in Wall Street" (New York 1880); and a pamphlet on "The Fowlers of Buckinghamshire, England." (Info from "Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography)
Hon.

Author and CT Senator. Educated at Phillips Andover Academy and at Amherst, where he graduated in 1854. He studied law at Amherst and in New York City where he was admitted to the bar in 1857. He practiced his profession in New York till 1864, then became a broker, and in 1871 abandoned that business for literature and journalism, settling in Durham. In 1879, he was a member of the Connecticut Senate. He was for twelve years the New York financial correspondent of the Boston "Commercial Bulletin," and was the author of "Ten Years in Wall Street" (Hartford 1870); "Life and Adventures of Benjamin F. Moneypenny"; "Fighting Fire" (1873); "Woman on the American Frontier" (1877); "Twenty Years of Inside Life in Wall Street" (New York 1880); and a pamphlet on "The Fowlers of Buckinghamshire, England." (Info from "Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography)


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