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William Worthington Fowler

1833–1881

A 19th-century American writer who moved from law and Wall Street into journalism and popular history, he is best remembered for vivid books on frontier women and financial life in New York. His work blends storytelling with a reporter’s eye for drama and detail.

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Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic"

Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic"

by William Worthington Fowler

About the author

Born in Middlebury, Vermont, in 1833, William Worthington Fowler studied at Phillips Andover and graduated from Amherst College in 1854. He went on to study law in Amherst and New York, and was admitted to the bar in 1857.

After practicing law in New York, he worked as a broker before turning more fully to literature and journalism in the 1870s. Sources also describe him as serving in the Connecticut Senate late in his life, showing how his career reached beyond writing alone.

Fowler wrote nonfiction with a strong narrative pull. Among the books most often linked to him are Ten Years in Wall Street, Inside Life in Wall Street, Twenty Years of Inside Life in Wall Street, Fighting Fire, and Woman on the American Frontier, the last of which helped preserve dramatic stories of women’s lives on the American frontier. He died in Durham, Connecticut, in 1881.