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HENRY FOWLE 1766 - 1837
Junior Grand Warden, 1808
Senior Grand Warden, 1809
BIOGRAPHY
From Moore's Freemason's Monthly Magazine, Vol. XVIII, No. 12, October, 1859; Page 365.
Henry Fowle was a native of Medford, Mass., born in September, 1766; went to Boston at the age of fourteen, and served an apprenticeship as a pump and block maker, which occupation he followed in after life. He was better educated than most mechanics of his time. He had a good knowledge of the French language, and spoke it with the same fluency as his mother tongue; hence his society was sought by Frenchmen and other foreigners resorting to our shores. They were often invited to his house, and treated with kindness and cordiality.
The embargo and subsequent war with Great Britain proved disastrous to his business, and well nigh ruined it. He died in Boston, in April 1837, aged seventy-one years.
Mr. Fowle was twice married. His first wife was the mother of fourteen children; his second wife, of six. Eight of his children were living in 1854, being people of character and respectability.
. . . He was one of the original members of Mount Lebanon Lodge, and its first Master. This office he held in 1801, 1802, 1803 and 1805. He also sustained various important offices in some of the other Masonic bodies, being a member of St. Andrew's Lodge a number of years, and Master, and an officer in the Grand Lodge several years.
In all these relations Brother Fowle exerted an influence beyond that of almost any of his contemporaries. As he was perfect in the ritual of every grade of the Order, he was considered high authority by his younger and less informed Brethren. Being so intimately connected with the Masonic fraternity, his biography, if written out, would necessarily contain a pretty good history of the Order during the most active portion of his life.
History of Templary - contains biographical information on Bro. Fowle.
