illiam Fowler is a native of Massachusetts where he was born in Hamden county, in 1827. His parents moved to Ohio while he was still a lad and afterward to Minnesota, and he lived near St. Paul until he came to Redlands in 1891. He has followed the business of farming all his life, and has an orange ranch in Redlands. Mr. Fowler enlisted in the Union Army in August, 1862, and served until the close of the war. Most of the time he was on the frontier, with General Sully, fighting Indians, and was stationed a part of this period in Northern Minnesota, with twenty men, among the Chippewas, keeping them quiet. The last year of his army service was as lieutenant of Co. F, 8th Minn., and was in the South. Mr. Fowler was wounded at the battle of Cedars, but remained with his regiment until it was mustered out at the close of the war. He served in the legislature of the State of Minnesota in '77 and '78; was president of the State Agricultural Society for two years, and chairman of the Board of Supervisors of the Town of College Grove, Washington county, for seven years. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Redlands for nearly four years and is now its president. Mr. Fowler was president of the Redlands Y. M. C. A. for two years. He is a director in the Redland's Water Company. Mrs. Fowler was, before marriage, Caroline A. Lane, a native of Ohio. Of their four children Dr. May Fowler is a physician and missionary to Burmah, and their daughter Nellie and two sons, Frank L., and Will L., are living in Redlands.

(Source: Illustrated Redlands, 1897, p. 23.)