Richard Fowler Jr. Biography Hancock County, WV ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** Submitted by Dale Patterson Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia". Compiled and Written by: J.H. Newton, G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle Published by: J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA. Biographical Sketches of Hancock County: Richard Fowler Jr: was born in now Hancock County, West Virginia, July 30, 1830. He married Miss Martha A. Peterson, daughter of Conrad Peterson, in 1859, who bore him nine children, three sons and six daughters. They settled on the farm where they are now living. His father, Richard Fowler Sr., deceased, settled and made the first improvements on said farm. He has followed farming as his vocation during life.