![]() ![]() Fowler wrote that coarse hair correlated with coarse fibers in the brain, and indicated coarse feelings that, he wrote, suggested that people of African descent had poor verbal skills and traits that were best suited for nursing children or waiting on tables. The practice of phrenology was frequently used to justify slavery and to advance a belief in African-American inferiority. The three were "in large measure" responsible for the mid-19th century popularity of phrenology. Lorenzo and his wife Lydia Folger Fowler lectured frequently with Orson on the subject of phrenology. Orson wrote and lectured on phrenology, preservation of health, popular education and social reform from 1834 to 1887. With his brother Lorenzo Niles Fowler, he opened a phrenological office in New York City. The son of Horace and Martha (Howe) Fowler, he was born in Cohocton, New York, He prepared for college at Ashland Academy and studied at Amherst College, graduating in the class of 1834. He also popularized the octagon house in the middle of the nineteenth century. Orson Squire Fowler (Octo– August 18, 1887) was an American phrenologist and lecturer. ![]()
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