. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. educator, had variousK been a bookseller and con- ductor of a "Female Monitorial ; '* The junior William B. Fowie we have first located as a ticket master with the Boston and Worcester Railroad in 1848," and he retained tliis lisiinQ; in the directory through 1851. Starting in and continuing through 1862, with no indication of employer or occujjation, he had an oflice at 9 Merchants In 1860 and 1862 he was a member of the Boston Common Council, and was president of that l)()dy in 1865. In 1862, after th
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. educator, had variousK been a bookseller and con- ductor of a "Female Monitorial ; '* The junior William B. Fowie we have first located as a ticket master with the Boston and Worcester Railroad in 1848," and he retained tliis lisiinQ; in the directory through 1851. Starting in and continuing through 1862, with no indication of employer or occujjation, he had an oflice at 9 Merchants In 1860 and 1862 he was a member of the Boston Common Council, and was president of that l)()dy in 1865. In 1862, after the .second battle of Bull Run, he raised an infantry company for the 43rd Massa- chusetts V'olunteers and was mustered in, September 24, 1862, with the rank of captain. From December 7, 1862, to March 4, 1863, he was commandant of the military post at Beaufort, North Carolina. He then reported to his regiment. On June 24, 1863, he was left sick at New Bern, North Carolina, by his company bound for Fortress Monroe. On July 21 he rejoined his company at Boston, , in time to be mustered out on July 30 at the expiration of his nine months' ;" In the 1864 Boston directory we find him listed as treasurer of the Bear Valley Coal Co., and the North Mountain Coal Co., with an ofRce at 38 City Exchange. This association with the coal business continued widt changes unimportant to our story through the directories until 1877, in wiiich year the name is dro]3ped from the Boston directory, not to re- appear until the directory of 1880, where he is listed at "Herald Building, watches and ; This was apparently the sales office. The .\ewton directory of 1877 drops its previous listing of coal after Mr. Fowle's name and first mentions the .\ui:)urndal(' Watch ; In 1866 Mr. Fowlc established his home, Tanglewood, in .Auburndale, a village in Newton not far from his boyhood home at West Newton and on the bank of the Charles River about
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