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Joseph Henry Fowler (Paducah, Kentucky, steamboat captain)

b. 1835-04-26 d. 1904-12-24

Paducah, Kentucky, steamboat captain. Salem, Kentucky, native. Son of Wiley R. Fowler. Married to Martha Leech Fowler in Livingston, Kentucky on January 11, 1855. Father of Givin, Mildred, Minta, and Mattie Fowler. Graduate of Cumberland College in Princeton, Kentucky. Steamboat captain in Paducah, Kentucky, from 1849 to 1904.

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White

Bibliography

"Long and Honored Career has Ended," The Paducah Sun, December 24, 1904. (accessed July 13, 2019).
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken, Paducah, p. 946.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken, Paducah, p. 131A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Livingston County Marriages, Film #000318176 p. 116.
Find A Grave, "Joseph Henry Fowler (1833-1904)," Memorial #66490291, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66490291 (accessed July 13, 2019).

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Fowler, Joseph Henry. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211208 (November 12, 2026).

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