BIOGRAPHY: Everett Fowler; Haverstraw, Rockland co., New York

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Portrait and Biographical Record of Rockland and Orange Counties New York
Containing Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens of the Counties.
Together with Biographies and Portraits of all the Presidents of the United
States.
New York and Chicago; Chapman Publishing Co., 1895

EVERETT FOWLER. The brick business is one of the principal industries of
Rockland County, and the men who have en-gaged in it have almost invariably
gained success. As a representative of this class mention should be made of
Everett Fowler, who is superintendent of the Excelsior Brick Company and of D.
Fowler & Son. The former concern has a capacity of sixteen million of brick
and gives employment to eighty or ninety men, while the latter company employs
seventy or eighty men, with a capacity in its output of twelve million.

In the village of Haverstraw, where he still resides, Mr. Fowler was born
December 26, 1854, and in the schools of this place obtained a fair business
education; he afterwards attended, and was graduated from, the Thirty-fifth
Street Gram-mar School in New York. At the age of eighteen he became
bookkeeper for his father, and three years later he began in business for
himself, opening a brickyard near his present location. After four years
there, in 1880, he became a member of the firm of D. Fowler & Son, and has
since managed the valuable plant of this company. When the Excelsior yards
were purchased, he became a partner in the enterprise, of which he is now
superintendent. His entire attention from early youth has been devoted to the
manufacture of brick, and he has been unusually successful in this occupation.
He has made a study of the business, and at different times has visited nearly
all the brickyards in the United States, gaining from a close observation of
their methods practical ideas for the management of his own yards.

In April, 1880, Mr. Fowler married Miss Anna S. Denison, granddaughter of
Major Suffern, and a daughter of P. and Anna (Suffern) Denison. Four children
were born to our subject and wife: John E.; Catherine; Denison, who died at
the age of four years; and Denton. Mrs. Fowler is a member of the Central
Presbyterian Church, of which Dr. Freeman is pastor. In social circles Mr.
Fowler is highly esteemed, and he is one of the active members of the Bicycle
Club.