Orson Squire Fowler

October 11, 1809 – August 18, 1887

Orson Squire Fowler was a phrenologist and lecturer. He also popularized the octagon house in the middle of the nineteenth century. Orson edited and published the American Phrenological Journal from 1838 to 1842. He was a partner with Fowler & Wells, publishers, New York, from 1846 to 1854. The town of Fowler, Colorado is named for Fowler. He is remembered as a man of universal reform who preached for education, temperance, and equality. Orson, like his sister-in-law Lydia Fowler, held forth for the equality for women at a time when women had virtually no legal rights in the United States.