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No matter how far separated our bodies may be nor how seldom we may hear from each other we are, and ever will be together. I love you I love you. and what God has joined together no human can separate. You must get well and strong and work much more before you leave this world. Remember that we
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in the family-run business of O.S. & L.N. Fowler, a lecture bureau, museum, and publishing house, where she served as proofreader, writer, business manager, and editor. She also maintained the organization's cabinet and was also instrumental in keeping the permanent offices from being abandoned.
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The Wells worked together for 31 years. For long periods of time, she was left with the control of the entire business, while her husband and brothers were traveling through countries, spreading the science and items for their cabinet. After Lorenzo moved to England in 1855, the firm's ownership
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and judge. Her mother, Martha Howe, was an intellectual, who died when Wells was five years old, but her teachings left a lasting impression upon the daughter. Wells received most of her education in the district school, with only two winters of three months each of instruction in the Franklin
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Wells studied and became interested in Spurzheim's works, teaching the first class in phrenology in the United States, and thereafter, her life was devoted to promoting it. Urged by her brothers, she closed her school in 1837, and joined them in
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passed to the Wells. After the husband's death in 1875, she became the sole proprietor and manager for nine years. In 1884, she formed a stock company,
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A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life
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The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century
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Some account of the life and labors of Dr. Franc̜ois Joseph Gall, founder of phrenology
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When Orson was in the field lecturing, and Lorenzo was establishing a branch in
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Burstyn, Joan N.; Women's Project of New Jersey (October 1, 1996).
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Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893).
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James, Edward T.; James, Janet Wilson; Boyer, Paul S. (1971).
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Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary
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and publisher from New York. Along with her brothers,
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Wells in 1893 publication A Woman of the Century
A Woman of the Century
Cohocton, New York
West Orange, New Jersey
Rosedale Cemetery
Pseudoscience
Phrenology
Samuel Roberts Wells
Orson Squire Fowler
Lydia Folger Fowler
née
phrenologist
Orson Squire Fowler
Lorenzo Niles Fowler
Lydia Folger Fowler
Samuel Roberts Wells
Fowler & Wells Company
New Jersey
Cohocton, New York
deacon
Prattsburgh, New York
Franz Joseph Gall
Johann Spurzheim
New York City
London
Samuel Roberts Wells
Boston
Nassau Street
Fowler & Wells Company
American Institute of Phrenology

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