Jessie Allen Fowler
Jessie Allen Fowler | |
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Born | 11 July 1856 ![]() New York City ![]() |
Died | 15 October 1932 ![]() New York City ![]() |
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Occupation | Phrenologist |
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Jessie Fowler (1856–1932) was an American campaigner for temperance and a phrenologist. She was the honorary secretary of the
Life
Fowler was one of the three daughters of the physician Lydia Folger Fowler and the leading phrenologist Professor Lorenzo Niles Fowler[1] She was born in New York on 11 July 1856.[2]
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Her father
In January 1888 she was in Melbourne on a professional visit addressing people at the Melbourne Athenaeum. She was offering lectures and phrenological consultations.[4]
Her father had a stroke and in 1896 she and her father returned to America where Jessie started to manage the Phrenological Journal Her father soon had another stroke[1] and he died in New Jersey at his sister's house.[2] In 1898 Jessie was writing about phrenology and “the world’s races”.[5]
His sister was Charlotte Fowler Wells who died in 1901 when Jessie was taking a one-year course at New York University called “Women’s Law”. The company of Fowler and Wells now belonged to her.[2] Two years later she was writing her claims about how phrenology could help you predict the future.[5]
In 1908 she compared the head of a murderer with that of Belle Gunness.[5] Gunness was a serial killer whose crimes were only discovered after her headless body was found after a fire.[6]
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On 1912 she published her phrenological study of the American President Woodrow Wilson which included analysis of his head shape, his nose, chin and ears.[5] Public interest in phrenology was not as high as it was but she continued to publish her writings.[5] In 1917 several short animated films were made by Paul Terry with scripts by Fowler. They were Character as Revealed by the Ear, Character as Revealed by the Eye, Character as Revealed by the Mouth and Character as Revealed by the Nose.[citation needed][7]
In 1916 she made a phrenological study of the head of Pancho Villa and in 1922 she speculated on the future life of a child born with criminal parents.[5]
Fowler had been born in New York and that is where she was buried after she died on 15 October 1932.[2]
References
- ^ a b c "Noted Phrenologist Dead" (PDF). New York Times. 4 September 1896. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
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- ^ "Miss Jessie Allen Fowler". Table Talk. 1888-01-06. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
- ^ a b c d e f Felix, Elving. "Research Guides: Jessie Fowler: Topics in Chronicling America: Introduction". guides.loc.gov. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
- ^ "How a farm girl became the 'butcher' of lonely men". 2018-05-05. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Terry Human Interest Reels Theatrical Cartoon -Paul Terry Prods". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved 2023-07-17.[dead link]