Author: Fowler, Andrew
Biography:
FOWLER, Andrew (1760-1850: Dexter)
He was born in Guilford CT to Andrew and Martha (Stone) Fowler, who were Congregationalists, but he became an energetic clergyman in the Episcopal Church after graduating from Yale in 1783. Ordained in 1789, he served as minister in parishes from Long Island to Philadelphia. In 1807 he settled in Charleston SC, where he was a parish priest for four years but then resigned to do missionary work in the area; he also for a time ran an academy for young people of both sexes. In 1843 he became too ill to work; in 1847 he went blind; he died and is buried in Charleston. By his first marriage, of 1787, to Mary Doty, he had five children; after she died in 1817 he married again, but only the first name of the second wife--Henrietta--is recorded. Dexter notes that he lived a life "of almost unexampled industry" (4:271): his many publications on behalf of the church include liturgical, historical, and pastoral works besides the hymns listed in this bibliography. (Dexter; Appleton) HJ