Orson Squire Fowler - Legacy

Legacy

The town of Fowler, Colorado is named for Fowler. Fowler too had a subtle influence on modern psychology and anthropology. He is remembered as a man of universal reform who preached for education, temperance, and equality. Orson, like his sister-in-law Lydia Fowler, held forth for the equality for women at a time when women had virtually no legal rights in the United States, and he stood for children's rights when child labor was quite acceptable in the burgeoning industrial factories of his country. He was crucial in the original publication of his good friend Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.