Biographies - Elmira Township

Brady Fowler, son of Maurice and Sarah (Pell) Fowler, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., of which city his parents were natives, September 24, 1808. With his wife, Rebecca Wiseman, and three children, he settled in Elmira Township, on Section 4, in 1836, and resided there for forty-two years, when he moved to Toulon village.

Of his children, Jane (married), John, Martin, Goshen; John resides in Toulon Township; Kirk H. is in Colorado; Jonathan W. in Iowa; Tillie is wife of J. Mosher, of Fairmont, Neb.; Sarah married Alex. McKenzie, of Toulon Township, and Mary is unmarried.

Mrs. Fowler died in 1882, and was interred in Elmira cemetery.

Mr. Fowler's name occurs in the general history, and is often mentioned in the township sketches.

Mrs. Rebecca N. (Wiseman) Fowler died at Elmira, October 14, 1882, aged seventy-seven years. She was born in Cumberland County, Pa., in 1806; married Brady Fowler in 1831, and in 1836 came with her husband to Osceola Grove.