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Orson Squire Fowler was born on October 11, 1809 at Cohocton, Steuben County, New York, and was a son of Horace and Martha (Howe) Fowler.
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Orson Squire Fowler was born on October 11, 1809 at Cohocton, Steuben County, New York, and was a son of Horace and Martha (Howe) Fowler.
Fowler was educated in Massachusetts, under the Reverend Moses Miller (at Heath) and the Reverend Mr. Clark (at Buckland); in the Ashfield Academy; and at Amherst College, where he graduated in 1834.
With his younger brother and disciple, Lorenzo, Fowler at once moved upon New York City. Already extravagantly devoted to the cause of phrenology - his interest in which had been aroused in college by his fellow student Henry Ward Beecher - he plunged into controversy with one “Vindex”, and in 1837, with the collaboration of his brother, published Phrenology Proved, Illustrated, and Applied, which ran through some thirty editions.
In 1840 the two brothers, who had organized the firm of O. S. & L. N. Fowler, began the publication of the Phrenological Almanac; in 1842 they assumed the editorship and publication of the American Phrenological Journal and Miscellany, founded by Nathan Allen in Philadelphia in 1838; in 1844 S. R. Wells entered into partnership with them and their firm became Fowlers & Wells until 1863 when both the brothers withdrew, Lorenzo to settle in London, Orson to reside in Boston and later in Manchester, Massachusetts.
Meanwhile, Orson had produced an extraordinary number of semi-scientific and pseudo-philosophical works whose portentous titles indicate their contents. Such were, among many others: Love and Parentage, applied to the Improvement of Offspring, including Important Directions and Suggestions to Lovers and the Married concerning the Strongest Ties and the Most Momentous Relations of Life, and its sequel, Amativeness: or, Evils and Remedies of Excessive and Perverted Sexuality, including Warning and Advice to the Married and Single (both of which had reached forty editions by 1844).
Throughout middle life (1850 - 70), he spent most of his time in extensive and lucrative lecture-trips in the United States and Canada, charming ignorant audiences equally by his assumption of scientific knowledge and by the extreme sentimentality of his fundamental outlook on life.
In old age he returned to the writing of books, similar to his earlier ones in both content and title.
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From his academic training Fowler emerged a characteristic product of the day, with a mass of ill-digested information, many enthusiastic theories, and much reformatory zeal. His interest in matrimony was practical as well as theoretical.
Fowler’s interests were universal and he supposed himself able to solve the problems of every department of knowledge by means of "phrenology and physiology” alone. Without special training in philosophy, science, or medicine, and with only a smattering of physiology itself, he undertook to answer the most difficult questions in these fields.
His inordinate conceit, however, saved him from deliberate charlatanry, and, in the sense in which alchemy was the forerunner of chemistry, his emphasis upon hereditary and physiological factors in matrimony may be taken as a wild and crude form of eugenics. He also had interesting though bizarre notions of housebuilding, set forth in A Home for all; or, the Gravel Wall, and Octagon Mode of Building ( 1849), written in collaboration with his brother. The amazing mélange of scientific facts, popular superstitions, and personal fancy, which came from his fluent pen procured him an immense reputation in his own day.
Orson Squire Fowler was married three times: on June 10, 1835, to Mrs. Martha Chevalier, daughter of Elias Brevoort of New York City; on October 26, 1865, to Mrs. Mary Poole, daughter of William Aiken of Gloucester, Massachusetts; on March 21, 1882, to Abbie L. Ayres, daughter of Ebenezer Ayres, Osceola, Wisconsin.