Orson Squire Fowler was a phrenologist who popularized the octagon house in the middle of the nineteenth century. The son of Horace and Martha (Howe) Fowler, he was born in Cohocton, New York, He prepared for college at Ashland Academy and studied at Amherst College, graduating in the class of 1834.

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  • Orson Squire Fowler was a phrenologist who popularized the octagon house in the middle of the nineteenth century. The son of Horace and Martha (Howe) Fowler, he was born in Cohocton, New York, He prepared for college at Ashland Academy and studied at Amherst College, graduating in the class of 1834. With his brother, Lorenzo Niles Fowler, he opened a phrenological office in New York City, and wrote and lectured on phrenology, preservation of health, popular education and social reform from 1834 to 1889. He edited and published the American Phrenological Journal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1838 to 1842. He was a partner with Fowler & Wells, publishers, New York, from 1846 to 1854, residing in Fishkill, New York and Elizabeth, New Jersey. He moved his office to Boston in 1863, residing in Manchester from 1863 to 1880, and resided in Sharon, New York from 1883 until August 18 1887, when he died.
  • Orson Squire Fowler war ein US-amerikanischer Phrenologe, der in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts für das oktagonale Wohnhaus eintrat.
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  • Orson Squire Fowler was a phrenologist who popularized the octagon house in the middle of the nineteenth century. The son of Horace and Martha (Howe) Fowler, he was born in Cohocton, New York, He prepared for college at Ashland Academy and studied at Amherst College, graduating in the class of 1834.
  • Orson Squire Fowler war ein US-amerikanischer Phrenologe, der in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts für das oktagonale Wohnhaus eintrat.
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  • Orson Squire Fowler
  • Orson Fowler
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