JAMES T. FOWLER, a soldier in the late Civil war and now a resident of Honey   Creek   township,   Delaware county, Iowa, was born in Sangamon county, Ill., February 20, 1843.   When he was five months old his parents moved to Iowa, and first located in Dubuque county, where they had their home until 1863, when they came to Delaware county. At the early age of eighteen years Mr. Fowler enlisted in Company  G, Ninth Iowa infantry, and for three years served in the Western department. His first experience in actual war was at Pea Ridge, Ark., but later he was at Vicksburg, Miss., and was indeed through all the battles in which his regiment took part until Sherman captured Atlanta, Ga. During this fearful war experience he was sunstruck at Helena, Ark., from which he has never recovered, and is now receiving a small pension for the infirmity thus incurred.

The Fowler family consisted of eight children, as follows: Sarah E., the wife of Elias Waters, and now about fifty-two years of age; Elizabeth H., wife of J. C. Moreland; James T., whose name heads this sketch ; Martha O., married to C. P. Holmes; Edward M. and Emily J., twins; of these twins, Emily is married to W. D. Culbertson; A. W., the next born, is living in this county; Rilla is married to F. J. Sheldon, and also lives in this county. The father of this family, William Fowler, was born in Tennessee in 1813, and, when a small boy, was taken by his parents to Sangamon county, Ill., where he was reared and taught the trade of a cooper. At the early age of nineteen, he married, in the year 1832. In 1843 he sold his farm in Sangamon county, Ill., and came to Iowa. The lady whom he chose for his life partner was Miss Mary Dorbin, a native of Kentucky, and daughter of Edward Dorbin, of the same state. John Fowler, a brother of William, was a gallant soldier in the Black Hawk war, and was killed near where Freeport, Ill, now stands.

James T. Fowler married Miss Rosa Edmonds, a daughter of J. S. and Phebe (Albee) Edmonds, natives of Oswego county, N. Y. J. S. Edmonds was born in May, 1828, and Phebe September 25 of the same year, and their marriage took place March 3, 1850. To this union were born two children Rosa (Mrs. Fowler), born July25, 1852, and John J., October 15, 1856, the latter being married and now living on his parents' farm in Honey Creek township, Delaware county, Iowa, to which place they came in June, 1868. To James T. Fowler and wife have been born seven children, as follows Herman E., August 7, 1874; James B., August 23, 1876; Nellie F., August 17, 1880; Nettie., April 2, 1882; Orie G., June 2, 1884; Sadie E., June 17, 1886, and Joel W., November 6, 1888.

Mr. Fowler has held numerous public offices, and is a republican of the deepest dye.

 

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