When William M Fowler was born in December 1896, in Kentucky, United States, his father, William Hulett Fowler, was 24 and his mother, Mary Ann Eli, was 24. He lived in Magisterial District 6 Charleston, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States in 1900.
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English: occupational name for a fowler, a hunter or trapper of wild birds (a common medieval occupation), from Middle English fogheler, fugheler (Old English fugelere, a derivative of fugol ‘bird’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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