Overview
Jessie Fowler (1856–1932) was an American campaigner for temperance and a phrenologist. she was the honorary secretary of the British Women's Temperance Association. She made short animated films and published her claims about predicting the future and the character of criminals.
Life
Fowler was one of the three daughters of the physician Lydia Folger Fowler and the leading phrenologist Professor Lorenzo Niles Fowler She was born in New York on 11 July 1956.
Her father and her mother were both writers and advocates for Temperance and her mother was elected as the honorary secretary of the British Women's Temperance Association in 1879 which is now known as the White Ribbon Association. In February 1884 the National Temperance Federation (NTF) organised a meeting at Exeter Hall in London. Fowler and Jane Aukland were both sent as delegates. They successfully recommended that the British Women's Temperance Association should become an NTF affiliate.
In January 1888 she was in Melbourne on a professional visit addressing people at the Melbourne Athenaeum. She was offering lectures and phrenological consultations.
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