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1825 Hezekiah Fowler lived in Darke County, Ohio. [1]

c 1850 "The principal settlers near Union City were Mr Fowler (Ohio), father of Gabriel Fowler, grocer, on the Fowler farm..." [2] [3]

A biosketch of son Hanson Fowler reports [4]:

Among the honored and highly respected citizens of Washington township, Darke county, Ohio, none are more deserving of mention in a work of this kind than Hanson T. Fowler, who was born in that township, December 14, 1823, on what Is now known as the George Mills farm. His father, Hezekiah Fowler, was born in Frederick county, Mayland, in 1785, and was married In Darke county, Ohio, In 1820, to Miss Isabel Duvall, who was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, In 1801. To this worthly couple were born ten children, and the birth of all occurred In Darke county, but only three are now living, namely: Mrs. Elsie Brubaker, a resident of Jay county, Indiana ; Benjamin, who is living at the Soldiers' Home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Hanson T., our subject.

Mr. Fowler was reared and educated In his native county. He removed with his parents to Jackson township in 1831, where he still resides. On the 22nd of December, 1850, he was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Livingood, by whom he had four children, namely : W. W., a prominent attorney of Union City, who married. May 31, 1879, Miss Ella Brumbaugh, of Union City, Indiana, and they have one son named Hanson T. Fowler, Jr., who is a graduate of the schools of that city ; Hezekiah married, in September, 1883. Jennie Wilson, of Greene county, Ohio, a school-teacher by whom hy has three bright daughters, Gertrude, Mildred and Ethel, and they reside on a farm in Indiana ; Jacob married, in 1896, Miss Anna Barkley, of Greene county, Ohio, and is a collector for the Deering Binder Company and a resident of Piqua, Ohio ; and the fourth child died at the age of six months. The mother of these children died December 24, 1859, and Mr. Fowler was again married, October 18, 1863, his second union being with Harriet Kemp, who was born in Baltimore county, Mary land, June 3, 1832. Of the four children born of this marriage the two daughters died in infancy. The sons are Benjamin F., who was born December 7, 1865, and is now a practicing attorney of Fillmore county, Minnesota; and Edward F., who was born September 13, 1864, and lives on the home farm with his parents. The children were all given the advantages of the public schools and then allowed to complete their education by their own efforts.

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Footnotes:

[1] Frazer Ellis Wilson, History of Darke County, Ohio, from its earliest settlement to the present time, Vol. 1 (Milford, O., The Hobart publishing company, 1914), 162, [HathiTrust].

[2] Ebenezer Tucker, History of Randolph County, Indiana: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches (Chicago: Kingman, 1882), 436, right column, [HathiTrust].

[3] Frazer Ellis Wilson, History of Darke County, Ohio, from its earliest settlement to the present time, Vol. 1 (Milford, O., The Hobart publishing company, 1914), 550, Names Hezekiah Fowler as a pioneer of Darke County, [HathiTrust].

[4] A Biographical History of Darke County Ohio: Compendium of National Biography (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1900), 406, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[5] A. W. Bowen & Company, A Portrait and Biographical Record of Delaware and Randolph Counties, Ind (1894), 1366, [GoogleBooks].