History of Orange County New York United States of America

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Samuel Fowler, mineralogist, was born in Orange county, N.Y., Oct. 30, 1779. He studied at the Penn medical college, Philadelphia, and practised his profession at Hamburg, and afterward at Franklin, N.J. He was a state senator and a Democratic representative in the 24th and 25th congresses, 1835-39. He was a member of the Geological society of Pennsylvania, of the New York lyceum of natural history; an honorary member of the Literary and Philosophical society of New Jersey; corresponding member of the Academy of natural sciences of Philadelphia; and an honorary member of several European scientific societies. He was the discoverer of fowlerite, a rare mineral named in his honor, and of franklinite, named by him. He owned and developed the zinc mines at Franklin; and contributed accounts of New Jersey minerals to Silliman's Journal of Science, Gordon's Gazetteer and History of New Jersey, and Cleaveland's Mineralogy. He died at Franklin, N.J., Feb. 20, 1844.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Edward Howell Myers, educator, was born in Orange county, N.Y., in 1816. He removed to Florida with his parents and attended school there; was graduated from Randolph-Macon college, Va., 2d in the class of 1838, A.M., in 1841. He taught in the Georgia Conference Manual Labor school at Oxford, Ga., an institution which subsequently became Emory college. He was admitted to the Georgia conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in January, 1841, and was an itinerant preacher, 1841-45. He was professor of national science at the Wesleyan Female college, Macon, Ga., 1845-51, and president of the college, 1851-54 and 1871-74. He was editor of the Southern Christian Advocate, Charleston, S.C., 1854-71. He was pastor of Trinity church, Savannah, Ga., 1874-76; was chairman of the Southern commission that met at Cape May, N.J., in 1876 to bring about a reunion of the Northern and Southern Methodist Episcopal churches, and had about completed this mission when the yellow fever broke out in Savannah, and he immediately rejoined his congregation and died of fever in Savanah, Ga., Sept. 26, 1876.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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