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From: "Jim and Terri Tait" <>
Subject: [DALELIST] FOWLER, James Thomas
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 19:01:38 -0500

Source: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1911, page 23

State Executive Office, Physician Inspector of the Board of Convicts

James Thomas Fowler, of Dothan, was born June 17, 1863, at Shorterville,
Ala. and the grandson of Thomas and Christian Fowler of Lynchburg, Va. and
of James and Harriet (Grace) Bennet of Shorterville, Ala. John Lindsay
Fowler was a physician, moved from Lynchburg, Va. to Randolph County, Ga.
later to Fort Gaines, Ga. and at the outbreak of the War of Secession was
Surgeon and first Captain of the Cotton Planters Guards, the first company
to enlist from that place. He moved to Henry County, Ala, in 1863 and was
appointed captain of a company of State Militia by Gov. Watts. James Bennet
moved to Alabama from South Carolina and was a Colonel in the Indian War.
Dr. Fowler was educated in the common schools of Henry County and received
his M.D. degree at Charleston, S.C. in 1883, at what is now the medical
Dept. of the University of S.C. He began the practice of medicine in April
1883, at Shorterville where he continued to practice until 1905, when he
removed to Dothan in Houston county. He was once Health Officer of Henry
county and later in 1910 of Houston County. He is a Democrat; a member of
the Missionary Baptist Church and a Mason. On April 24, 1888 at Lloyd, Ala.
he was married to Eliza Talbot Bunker, the daughter of Francis Moses and
Susan C. Bunker of Lloyd, Fla.

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