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 . s, when in 1870 he boughtout the celebrated gun manufactory of W. J. Sims& Bro., continuing the same until 1885. In 1878 heestablished the Atnerican Photo engraving company,devotin
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 . s, when in 1870 he boughtout the celebrated gun manufactory of W. J. Sims& Bro., continuing the same until 1885. In 1878 heestablished the Atnerican Photo engraving company,devoting his entire time to the building up and per-fecting of this business, of which he is the is also the inventor of several valuable patentsthat will shortly be brought before the public in thiscountry and Europe. In 1889 a reimion of the de-scendants of the first William Fowler was held atMilford, Conn., it being the 250th anniversary of thesettlement of the town, on which occasion a memo-rial stone bridge and tower were built over the millstream, dedicated to the founders, each cap stone ofwhich bears the name of one of the original settlersof this township. The first ceremony of the day ofcelebration was the baptism of a grandson of Will-iam M. Fowler (the tenth), on the banks of the millstream, by the pastor of the church of which the firstWilliam was a leader and one of the seven OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 135
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