Cook County IL Archives News.....Lucy L Fowler, Dies in California 1921
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Journal Of IL State Historical Society, Vol 14 1921
Mrs. Lucy L. Fowler, for nearly thirty years a leader in Chicago's Educational 
and Civic Club life, died April 27, at Coronado, California, where she had 
lived since 1902. She was 84 years old. Mrs. Fowler, the widow of Attorney 
James M. Fowler, had been in ill health ever since moving west. Her only 
surviving child, Mrs. John V. Farwell, formerly Mrs. Dunlap Smith of 229 Lake 
Shore drive was with her at the time of her death. Lucy Louisa Cones was born 
in Boston, Massachusetts. Her college work was done at the Packer Collegiate 
Institute in Brooklyn, New York. In 1859 she came west alone, having obtained 
a position as teacher in the Madison, Wisconsin High School. In 1863 Miss 
Cones married Attorney Fowler of Madison. They moved to Chicago ten years 
later. In 1875 Mrs. Fowler became a member of the board of trustees of the 
Chicago Half-Orphan Asylum, and later a member of the board of the Chicago 
Home for the Friendless. Mrs. Fowler was prominent in organizing the Illinois 
Training School for Nurses in 1880. She helped organize the Lake Geneva Fresh 
Air Association which gave poor children a few weeks' annual outing. In 1890 
she was elected president of the Chicago Woman's Club, and was also head of 
the Fortnightly Club. She was also a trustee of the St. Charles State School 
for Boys until she moved to California where Mr. Fowler died in 1909. Mayor 
Washburne appointed her a member of the Chicago School board in 1891. Three 
years later she was elected a trustee of the University of Illinois. The 
crowning recognition of Mrs. Fowler's service came in the naming of the Lucy 
Fowler Technical High School.

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Source: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Published Quarterly 
by the Illinois State Historical Society, Springfield, Illinois. Vol. 14 April-
July, 1921 No. 1-2.

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