Orin Fowler | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 9th district | |
In office March 4, 1849 – September 3, 1852 | |
Preceded by | Artemas Hale |
Succeeded by | Edward P. Little |
Personal details | |
Born | Lebanon, Connecticut | July 29, 1791
Died | September 3, 1852 Washington, D.C. | (aged 61)
Profession | minister |
Orin Fowler (July 29, 1791 – September 3, 1852) was a U.S. Representative and anti-smoking activist from Massachusetts.
Biography
Born in Lebanon, Connecticut, Fowler pursued classical studies and attended Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale College in 1814. He studied theology and pursued extensive missionary work in the Valley of the Mississippi. Finally settled as a minister in Plainfield, Connecticut, in 1820. He moved to Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1829, where he was installed as pastor of the Congregational Church in 1831. Wrote a history of Fall River in 1841. He served in the State senate in 1848.
Fowler was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses and served from March 4, 1849, until his death in Washington, D.C., September 3, 1852. He was interred in the North Burial Ground, Fall River, Massachusetts.
Anti-smoking
Fowler was a leading opponent of tobacco-smoking.[1][2] In 1842, he authored A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco.
Selected publications
- A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco (1842)
- History of Fall River: With notices of Freetown and Tiverton (1862)
See also
References
- United States Congress. "Orin Fowler (id: F000325)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- ^ Robert, Joseph C. (1949). The Story of Tobacco in America. New York: A. A. Knopf. p. 107
- ^ Hirschfelder, Arlene B. (1999). Encyclopedia of Smoking and Tobacco. Oryx Press. p. 17. ISBN 9781573562027
External links
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- American Printing Company
- Battle of Freetown
- B.M.C. Durfee High School 1886 building
- Bradford Durfee Textile School/Bradford Durfee College of Technology
- Corky Row Historic District
- Downtown Fall River Historic District
- Fall River Railroad
- Fall River Iron Works
- Fall River Line
- Great Fall River fire of 1928
- Highlands Historic District
- Lower Highlands Historic District
- Historic Places
- Oak Grove Cemetery
- Pocasset Manufacturing Company
- Slade's Ferry Bridge
- The Skeleton in Armor
- Truesdale Hospital
- USS Fall River (CA-131)
- Watuppa Branch
- Mariano S. Bishop
- Lizzie Borden
- Nathaniel B. Borden
- Richard Borden
- M. C. D. Borden
- Charlie Buffinton
- James Buffington
- Robert Correia
- Jasiel Correia
- John W. Cummings
- Orin Fowler
- Chris Herren
- Emeril Lagasse
- List of mayors of Fall River, Massachusetts
- Humberto Sousa Cardinal Medeiros
- Joe Raposo
- Jerry Remy
- Melvin Zais
- Academy Building
- Al Mac's Diner-Restaurant
- Battleship Cove
- Braga Bridge
- Copicut Woods
- Fall River Government Center
- Fall River Heritage State Park
- Interstate 195 (Rhode Island-Massachusetts)
- Marine Museum at Fall River
- List of mills
- New Harbour Mall
- Old Colony & Fall River Railroad Museum
- Quequechan Club
- Route 24
- St. Joseph's Orphanage
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