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| | History of Merrimack County, NH |
 | | Edward Fowler, born at Westerleigh in 1632, was distinguished as a divine, published a discourse on "The Design of Christianity” in 1676, which Bunyan attacked, and another on “Christian Liberty” in 1680; was made bishop of Gloucester in 1691, and died in 1714. |
 | | Asa Fowler, the ninth of eleven children of Benjamin and Mehitable (Ladd) Fowler, was born in Pembroke, N. H., February 23, 1811. |
 | | Immediately upon his resignation, Judge Fowler was appointed by the Governor and Council a delegate from New Hampshire to the Peace Congress, which met in Washington in February, 1861, for the purpose of averting, if possible, the threatened secession of the Southern States from the Union, and continued its sessions through the entire month. |
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