Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Fowles, James H.

FOWLES, James H., clergyman, b. in Nassau, New Providence, in 1812 ; d. in 1854. He was the son of a lieutenant in the British army, was graduated at Yale in 1831, licensed to preach by the presbytery of New York in 1833, and afterward ordained in the Protestant Episcopal church by Bishop Bowen, of South Carolina. He preached in that state till 1845, when he succeeded Stephen II. Tyng in Philadelphia. He was the author of " Protestant Episcopal Views of Baptism Explained and Defended " (Philadelphia, 1846). A collection of thirty " Sermons Preached in the Church of the Epiphany, Philadelphia," accompanied by a memoir, was published after his death (1855).