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E. T. Fowler, a leading citizen of Knox County, is a native of Ohio, and was born August 19, 1834. He is a son of Rezin T. Fowler, who was of Scotch descent, and a native of Ohio, where he was born in 1806. He left that State in 1851 for Iowa, but in four years came to Missouri, and located upon a farm in Knox County, seven miles north of Edina, where he lived until his death, in 1878. His wife, Eleanor (McKelfresh) Fowler, is of German and Scotch descent, and was born in Pennsylvania, but is now living with her daughter in Scotland County, Mo. Our subject lived with his parents until twenty-four years old, and then went to Edina, where he was employed as deputy circuit and county clerk for two years, and discharged the duties of these offices so efficiently that he was appointed assessor by the county court, to serve out an unfinished term, and was afterward elected to the same office, serving in that capacity three years in all. In 1861 he was married to Quintilla Jones, daughter of John and Mary Forqueran, being at this time assessor, and, after the expiration of his term, moved upon the farm of which he is a resident, and where he now owns 160 acres of land, well improved and cultivated. During the war he dealt in cattle exclusively, but now deals in mules and stock of all kinds. To the marriage of our subject and his wife five children were born, of whom only two, Elbert T. and Eva B. are living. Mr. Fowler is an honorable member of the Masonic order, and his wife belongs to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He has never belonged to any but the Democratic political party, and takes great interest in the general welfare and prosperity of his county, being especially interested in educational enterprises, having been school teacher ever since he was eighteen years old.