Dell Sherman Fowler

FOWLER, STRAWN, BRAGG, GETCHELL, DEXTER

Posted By: Peter Gausmann (email)
Date: 1/24/2010 at 04:51:30

DELL SHERMAN FOWLER

Among the wide-awake and progressive farmers of Forest township, Winnebago county, is numbered Dell Sherman Fowler, who deserves much credit for what he has accomplished inasmuch as his success has come entirely as the reward of persistent, earnest and indefatigable effort. He was born near Lafayette, Indiana, June 19, 1870, and is a son of George and Eunice (Strawn) Fowler, who were natives of Michigan and New York respectively. Removing westward, they resided for some time in Indiana and afterward established their home in Kansas, where they lived for eight years. They then returned eastward to Ohio, where the mother passed away, but the father spent his last years in Iowa. In their family were six children, all of whom survive.

Dell Sherman Fowler was largely reared and educated in Ohio, pursuing his studies in the public schools of that state. When his textbooks were put aside he took up the occupation of farming and in 1893 he became a resident of Winnebago county, Iowa. For several years he rented the farm upon which he now resides on section 17, Forest township, and during that period carefully saved his earnings until his industry and economy had brought him sufficient capital to enable him to purchase the place, comprising one hundred and sixty acres. This he has since improved by the erection of good buildings and he now has a well equipped farm. It is divided into fields of convenient size by well kept fences and he annually gathers good crops, for he displays sound judgment as well as industry in planting and caring for his fields. He also raises and feeds stock and has made that a profitable department of his business.

On January 15, 1893, Mr. Fowler was married to Miss Sarah Bragg, of La Salle county, Illinois, a daughter of William and Bessie (Getchell) Bragg, the former born in England and the latter in Maine and both now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Fowler have four children: Forest A.; Ada May, the wife of Asel Dexter, now of Minnesota; George W., and Eva J. Mrs. Fowler is a member of the Presbyterian church Mr. Fowler gives his political support to the republican party, and while he has never sought nor desired political office, he has served as school director. Mr. Fowler by reason of the qualities which he has displayed in business, as well as his sterling traits of character manifest in every relation of life, has gained the confidence and high regard of his fellowmen in an unusual degree and is justly accounted one of the most prominent of the farmers of Forest township.

Source: History of Winnebago County and Hancock County, Iowa: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, Vol. II. Pioneer Publishing Company (Chicago), 1917. pp. 500-503.