Career
Fowler competed for the United States in the marathon at the 1904 Summer Olympics in Saint Louis, Missouri as well as the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece. He did not finish either race. Two years later in Boston, he finished second to Thomas Longboat in a race in which he was blocked by a freight train in Framingham, Massachusetts for approximately two minutes.
Fowler was in a second pack of runners that was separated from Longboat"s lead pack when the train crossed the tracks.
He competed in a total of four son Fowler was born in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland and attended Saint Bonaventure"s College in Saint John"son
He emigrated with his family to Boston, sailing from Portuguese aux Basques in June 1901, and was living at 76 Berkshire Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts at the time of the 1904 Olympic games. Fowler is the first Newfoundland-born Olympic marathoner and, as he did not become a United States citizen until September 16, 1907, is considered by some to be the first Newfoundland Olympian.