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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsOrin FOWLER
(1791-1852)
FOWLER, Orin, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Lebanon, Conn., July 29,
1791; pursued classical studies and attended Williams College,
Williamstown, Mass.; was graduated from Yale College in 1814;
studied theology and pursued extensive missionary work in the
Valley of the Mississippi; finally settled as a minister in
Plainfield, Conn., in 1820; moved to Fall River, Mass., in 1829,
where he was installed as pastor of the Congregational Church in
1831; wrote a history of Fall River in 1841; served in the State
senate in 1848; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first and
Thirty-second Congresses and served from March 4, 1849, until his
death in Washington, D.C., September 3, 1852; interment in the
North Burial Ground, Fall River, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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