Charlotte Fowler Wells
Charlotte Fowler Wells | |
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Wells in 1893 publication A Woman of the Century | |
| Born | Charlotte Fowler August 14, 1814 Cohocton, New York, U.S. |
| Died | June 4, 1901 (aged 86) West Orange, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Resting place | Rosedale Cemetery |
| Occupation | Publisher |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | Franklin Academy |
| Genre | Pseudoscience |
| Subject | Phrenology |
| Spouse | Samuel Roberts Wells |
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Charlotte Fowler Wells (née Fowler; August 14, 1814 – June 4, 1901) 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 founded Fowler & Wells Company, published the American Phrenological Journal, and taught the first class in phrenology in the United States. She died at her home in New Jersey in 1901.