This is copied almost verbatim from a book called " The Landed Gentry - American Families"... Some Fowler will likely connect. How about you, David Payne? FOWLER OF GEORGIA WILLIAM ERIC FOWLER, of Washington D.C., Banker in Virginia and Washington D.C., Vice President Virginia Bankers' Association 1908, and Vice President West Virginia Bankers' Association 1909, served in Great War as Major, Ordinance Department, specially promoted Lieutenant Col, subsequently Member of the Ordinance Board, was member of the U.S. Delegation to the 5th Pan American Conference, Santiago, Chili 1923. Member of the Sons of the Revolution, and Society of Colonial Wars, b. 28 September 1874; m.27th July 1921, the widow of Edwin T Earl of Los Angeles, and dau. Of William Jarvis. Lineage (of Fowler) _ The descent of Fowlers of Georgia from Francis Fowler, who emigrated to Virginia in 1635 has been fairly clearly established, although the exact line of descent of the branch we are treating is still a little obscure in the period of the first half of the eighteenth century. FRANCIS FOWLER, had a grant of 800 acres of land in James City Co. of Virginia, upon settlement in 1635, became a member of the House of Burgesses in 1642, and subsequently acquired further territory. He had two sons, 1. Bartholomew, who established himself in Henrico County, and was Attorney General of Virginia in 1699, until his death in 1703, and 2. John, ancestor of the South Carolina family. This JOHN FOWLER, whose lands extended along the Appomattox River, had three sons, John, Mark, and Godfrey. Godfrey's will, dated 1743, mentions his son Joseph, who had moved to North Carolina. This Joseph had six sons, one of whom, it is believed was the father of the John Fowler, who with his brother Moses, took up a grant of two hundred acres along the Tyger River, in South Carolina, in 1784. . This JOHN Calhoun FOWLER, of Spartenburg, S.C., married Nancy, daughter of Thomas Paden (see lineage of Paden) and died, having had, with other issue, a son, RILEY FOWLER, b. 1802, who removed from S.C. to Noonday Creek, Georgia. He m. Susannah, dau. Of William Crane, and d. leaving with other issue, WILLIAM ERIC, of whom we write. Addresses: _ Army and NavyClub, Washington, D.C., California Club, Los Angeles, CA., University Club,