The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . him a broad and deep knowledge of humannature. His flow of language, fertile imagination,abundance of facts, and sympathy for humanity,made his discourse vigorous, incisive and emp
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . him a broad and deep knowledge of humannature. His flow of language, fertile imagination,abundance of facts, and sympathy for humanity,made his discourse vigorous, incisive and emphatic,and made his arraignment of IngersoU, and his de-fense of the eternal truths, a brilliant and nobletriumph which will always shed lusterupon his name. FOWIiEB, William Miles, merchant, wasborn at Milford, Conn., June 5, 1843, descendedfrom the Normans, tradition recording that SirRichard Fowler of Foxley, county Bucks, time ofCoeur de Lion (1189-90), held large estates, and ac-companied Richard to the Holy Land. During thewar he maintained a body of British bowmen, allhis own servants. For his services he was knightedby the king on the field of battle, and ordered towear another crest. From Richard was descendedHenry Fowler, who fought as an esquire under thereign of Henry V. in 1415. The large estate pos-sessed by his progenitors in Oxfordshire and Bed-fordshire, Eng., had, by the seventeenth mostly passed out of the family. Aylesbury inBuckinghamshire is where the original Fowlers ofMilford, Conn., emigrated from, landing in BostonJune 36, 1637. William Fowler was the first paten-tee of Milford, and one of the first magistrates ofthe New Haven colony in 1639. He bought theoriginal settlement of Milford in trust, for six coats,ten blankets, one kettle, twelve hatchets, twelvehoes, two dozen knives and one dozen small handmirrors. In 1639 he built a mill, the first erected inthe New Haven colony. Since that time eight gen-erations of the Fowlers have superinten
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