Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler

Place: Lowell

Born: 1842

Death: 1922

Biography:

Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler, often credited as T.M. Fowler, was an American cartographer born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1842. He is best known for his work on panoramic maps and is considered the most prolific maker of Pennsylvania panoramas of the mid 19th-century. Fowler was a soldier in the United States Civil War and was injured during battle. He worked for his uncle who was a photographer before starting his own business as a cartographer in Madison, Wisconsin. His business was located in Morrisville, Pennsylvania from 1885 until 1910. Fowler lived in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania and Shamokin, Pennsylvania from 1881 until 1885. He died of a heart attack in New York in 1922 and was interred in Trenton, New Jersey.