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L.
E. Fowler Mr.
L. E. Fowler is a Hoosier by birth, having been born in Laporte, Laporte County,
Indiana, on September 23, 1861, the scion of a sterling old pioneer family, his
parents being T. L. and Letitia J. (Braden) Fowler, the father having been born
in Marcellus, New York, on September 22, 1834. and the mother's birth occurred
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on March 3, 1843.
They came to Story County, Iowa, in an early day and engaged in the hotel
business at Collins, conducting one of the best and most popular hostelries in
central Iowa, meeting with a large measure of success.
Their hotel was destroyed by fire in the latter part of 1910, after which
they purchased a pleasant and substantial home in Baxter, Jasper County, where
they are now residing, retired from active life, their son, L. E., of this
review, looking to their every need and comfort in their declining years.
Their other son, Charles W., who was also born in Laporte, Indiana, his
birth occurring on December 16, 1862, lives in South Bend, that state. Mr.
Fowler of this review grew to maturity in Laporte, Indiana, and received a good
common school education, which has later in life been added to by systematic
home study and miscellaneous reading and actual contact with the world.
His parents being poor, he began life's struggles for himself at the
tender age of fourteen years. For a
number of years he engaged in teaching, his last years in this line of endeavor
being at Slater, Iowa. Having
become a registered pharmacist in the meantime, he entered the drug business at Lynnville, Iowa, remaining there eight years, during which he enjoyed a liberal
trade with the town and surrounding country.
Disposing of this business, he moved to Baxter, Jasper County, and
engaged in hardware and undertaking, securing an embalmer's certificate for the
state of Iowa in 1902. In 1903 he
turned his attention to banking and is now cashier of the People's State Savings
Bank and a director in the same. Much
of the success and popularity of this safe and conservative institution,
universally recognized as one of the soundest in this section of the state, has
been due to his efforts, and although it is a new bank it has enjoyed a rapid
growth, doing a general banking business. Mr.
Fowler was married on September 19, 1893, to Etta Heath, a lady of culture and
refinement and the representative of an excellent family.
She was born in McCordsville, Hamilton County, Indiana, on October 2,
1863, and she came with her parents, Robert and Rachael (Shenkle) Heath, to
Story County, Iowa, in an early day and there grew to maturity and obtained her
education and for several years was one of Story County's best schoolteachers. These parents were both natives of Indiana, the father born
on April 10, 1835, and the mother on March 27, 1837.
They still reside on the old home farm in Story County, having long since
become leading agriculturists of that locality.
Mrs. Fowler is the eldest living of a family of five children, the others
being, Belle Heath, Halleck Heath, Clarah (oldest), McNeu Heath (dead), and John
Heath, of Meridian, Oklahoma. One
child, a bright lad, now attending school in Baxter, was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Fowler on March 18, 1900, bearing the name Lowell Heath Fowler.
The Past and Present of Jasper County, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, 1912 B.F. Bowen Co., Indianapolis, IN, p. 1208. |
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