Ada A. Fowler, M. D., a homeopathic physician and surgeon of fine reputation, with her consultation parlors in the Wigger block, Marion, Grant county, Indiana, is a native of Wabash, Indiana, and a daughter of Newton and Matilda (Gamble) Fowler, natives of Indiana and Virginia, respectively.

        Newton Fowler was a farmer in Wabash county. His wife died in 1862, and his own death occurred in 1885. They left three sons and one daughter, viz.: Horace, a contractor and builder in Wabash; Will, a civil engineer, with his headquarters at Wabash; Dr. Ada A., the subject of this sketch, and Rev. Clarence, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Covington, Fountain county, Indiana.

        Dr. Ada Fowler was a mere child when she lost her mother and she early acquired habits of self-reliance. She succeeded in securing a common-school education in her native county, although under the home circumstances or conditions of affairs is was necessary that she should act as housekeeper for her father and brothers, after reaching her tenth year. In 1885 she began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Dunn, of Wabash; was under his instructions two years; in 1887 entered Hahnemann Medical College at Chicago; and from this, the leading homeopathic college in the United States, she was graduated in 1889. The succeeding two years she passed in post-graduate work, and following this for eighteen months she was house physician in the Chicago Nose and Throat Hospital.

        The Doctor began general practice in 1893 in Chicago; was kept busy four years with her individual patients, and also for two years on the professional staff of Hahnemann Hospital. In 1897 she came to Marion and located at her present office in the Wigger block, where she has established a satisfactory line of general practice. Being a member of the Homeopathic Institute of Indiana, the Doctor has every opportunity of keeping herself informed on the progress made in the science, of which she fully avails herself.

        The Doctor is a member of the Plymouth church of Chicago, and for seven years, while a resident of that city was a teacher in the Armour mission. The parents and brothers of the Doctor were all reared in the Presbyterian faith. Dr. Fowler is a member of Forestville chapter, No. 177, Order of the Eastern Star, her brother Will being a member of the Masonic fraternity in which he has held prominent official positions.

        The Fowler family in America descends from an English family who settled in Maryland just prior to the Revolutionary war, and several of the members of this family were identified with that struggle for independence. The family in Wabash county, Indiana, was established in 1836 by Isaac Fowler, grandfather of Dr. Ada A. Fowler, of Marion. Isaac Fowler was also the founder of the Presbyterian church in Wabash, and was the first county surveyor. He entered the land for his own farm and those of his two sons, and here passed the remainder of his life as one of the most honored and respected of pioneers.