Meanwhile, Orson had produced an extraordinary number of semi-scientific and pseudo-philosophical works whose portentous titles indicate their contents. Wells entered into partnership with them and their firm became Fowlers & Wells until 1863 when both the brothers withdrew, Lorenzo to settle in London, Orson to reside in Boston and later in Manchester, Massachusetts. Fowler, began the publication of the Phrenological Almanac in 1842 they assumed the editorship and publication of the American Phrenological Journal and Miscellany, founded by Nathan Allen in Philadelphia in 1838 in 1844 S. In 1840 the two brothers, who had organized the firm of O. Already extravagantly devoted to the cause of phrenology - his interest in which had been aroused in college by his fellow student Henry Ward Beecher - he plunged into controversy with one “Vindex”, and in 1837, with the collaboration of his brother, published Phrenology Proved, Illustrated, and Applied, which ran through some thirty editions. With his younger brother and disciple, Lorenzo, Fowler at once moved upon New York City. (age 78) Cohocton, Steuben County, New York, United States
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