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S. K. Fowler, a stock raiser, of Knox County, was born January 25, 1841, in Adams County, Ohio, and is the fourth of a family of five children (two of whom are dead), born to Samuel K. and Sarah (Jackson) Fowler, natives of Ohio, where they were reared and married. The father was married three times, his second wife bearing him three children (two dead), and the last eight children, five of whom are living. In 1850 he moved to Lee County, Iowa, and there engaged in farming until 1856, when he came to Knox County, Mo., and settled on a farm seven miles north of Edina. A year after, he joined the conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and until 1868 traveled as a circuit preacher. He then returned, and lived upon his farm until 1877, when he moved to Kirksville, where he now resides. Our subject received a common school education in Missouri, while traveling with his father, and, at the age of nineteen, enlisted in Company F, Second Missouri Regular Infantry, Confederate Army, serving through the war, and being in the battles of Pea Ridge (Ark.), Farmington (Miss.), Siege of Corinth, Iuka, assault on Corinth, Port Gibson, Champion Hills, Big Black River, Vicksburg, and was in front of Sherman during his “On to Atlanta;” also with Hood at Altoona Pass, and at Franklin during his invasion of Tennessee. He also participated in several skirmishes. At Vicksburg he was wounded in the knee and at Franklin shot through the arm and captured, being held a prisoner three months. In February, 1865, he was paroled and sent to Richmond and from there to Mobile, where he remained until the close of the war. He then taught school for three months, earning money to return home, which he did in August, 1865. February 24, 1869, he married Martha A., daughter of Colin M. and Margaret (Sharp) Campbell, and who was born December 13, 1848, in Knox County, Mo. To them four children have been born, three now living, viz.: Samuel K., Jr., Margaret E. and Carrie A. Our subject is an active and enterprising business man, and as a result of his labor and good management, together with the assistance of his wife, now owns 920 acres of land, most of which is finely improved and cultivated. It is all enclosed with good fences, and upon it is a fine residence, and good out buildings. In politics Mr. Fowler is a Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for Horace Greeley, in 1872. He is a stanch supporter of his party, but has never held public office. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.