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Charlotte Fowler Wells

Charlotte Fowler Wells, American phrenologist and publisher (died 1901)

Born
August 14, 1814
Died
June 4, 1901
Zodiac sign
Leo
Birth year
1814

About Charlotte Fowler Wells

Charlotte Fowler Wells was an American phrenologist and publisher from New York. Along with her brothers, Orson Squire Fowler and Lorenzo Niles Fowler, her sister-in-law, Lydia Folger Fowler, and her husband, Samuel Roberts Wells, she was an early American popularizer of phrenology. Wells published the American Phrenological Journal, and taught the first class in phrenology in the United States. She founded Fowler & Wells Company, served as vice-president of the American Institute of Phrenology, and was a trustee of the New York Medical College for Women. He was impressed with the theme and resolved to investigate it, his first ideas of phrenology having been obtained as a boy from a chart which had been marked by Charlotte Fowler, then in her teens.

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The world when Charlotte Fowler Wells was born

Charlotte Fowler Wells was born in 1814. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineBritish burn Washington D.C.
  • Technology milestoneFirst practical steam locomotive for railways
  • World population~970M

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderJames Madison
  • U.S. population8.1M

1814 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Charlotte Fowler Wells's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18142026
Population8.1M341 million

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