Samuel Fowler (October 30, 1779 at Newburgh, Orange County,

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, United States – February 20, 1844 at Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey) was a doctor, state legislator, and member of the

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from northwestern New Jersey. As the owner of zinc and iron mines and an iron works at Franklin, New Jersey, he became a noted mineralogist who discovered several varieties of rare minerals (chiefly various ores of

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Biography

Born in Newburg, New York on October 30, 1779, Fowler was the son of John Fowler and Glorianna Fowler. He attended the Montgomery Academy and subsequently graduated from Pennsylvania Medical College. He began to practice medicine in 1800 in

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(precursor to the

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), and was elected as a Jacksonian Democrat to House of Representatives, serving in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth United States Congresses (March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1837) Fowler died on February 20, 1844 in Franklin, New Jersey and was interred in the North Church Cemetery in

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. Fowler was the father of Colonel Samuel Fowler (1818–1863), an officer with the 15th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the

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and grandfather of Samuel Fowler (1851–1919), who served in the House of Representatives from 1889 to 1893.

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