Fowler and Wells Company

  • American


Fowler and Wells Company was an American publisher and museum, based in New York City, that promoted phrenology, the pseudo-science of determining human mental characters from measuring their heads. The displayed a collection of almost 2,000 bust, casts, portraits and skulls at their Phrenological Cabinet locations. The manuscript department, led by Samuel Roberts Wells, published handbooks and manuals on phrenology and such related reforms as vegetarianism, temperance and water cure. - AsNotedIn

Notable Position Person From To
Partner Orson S Fowler 1835 1855
Partner, head of publishing department Samuel Roberts Wells 1843 1875

Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1841/04/15 Commissioned by Fowler and Wells, an artist makes a plaster cast of Peter Robinson in a New Jersey prison cell. Robinson will be hanged on the following morning for killing his creditor and hiding the body beneath his floorboards. Cast Owner The Tell-Tale Heart
1855/09/00 Orson S Fowler's quits the company he founded with his brother and the surviving partner's takes the name, Fowler and Wells Company. Transition
1856/00/00 Fowler and Wells, phrenologists, print and distribute 1,000 copies of the second edition of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass". The edition reprints Whitman's phrenological analysis made by Lorenzo N Fowler in 1849. Publisher Leaves of Grass (book)
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