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Excerpt from A Biographical and Genealogical History of Southeastern Nebraska, Vol. 2 Charles Lee Fowler, the present popular and efficient postmaster of Steele City, Nebraska, is one of the best known men of southeastern Nebraska, and with a reputation pretty well diffused over the entire west. He is an old-time editor, having begun in the most humble capacity years ago, and is acquainted with newspaper business from bottom to top. He has also the honor of being a veteran of the Civil war. For a number of vears he was a pioneer actor and performer in the traveling shows and circuses which made the one phenomenal red letter day of the, western communities before and after the introduction of railroads. All these varied experiences have been crowded into a life of sixty-three years, and indicate him to be a man of resourceful ability, versatile and popular with all classes of citizens, such as he has proved to be since coming to Jefferson county a little over a decade ago. Mr. Fowler was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in Union town, September 30, 1840, of an old and well known eastern family. W. Emory Fowler, his father, was a cousin of the late well known writer and publisher, Professor O. S. Fowler, of New York city. The former was a tinsmith by trade, and followed that pursuit for a num ber of years in the east, and about 1850 became one of the early settlers of the state of Iowa, being in business in Des Moines for a time, and was also at New London, Henry county. He died at the age of seventy eight, having been a Democrat in politics and liberal in religion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.