births
August 14, 1814
Charlotte Fowler Wells, American phrenologist and publisher (died 1901)
Charlotte Fowler Wells
Charlotte Fowler Wells was an American phrenologist and publisher from New York. Along with her brothers, Orson Squire Fowler and Lorenzo Niles Fowler, her sister-in-law, Lydia Folger Fowler, and her husband, Samuel Roberts Wells, she was an early American popularizer of phrenology. Wells founded Fowler & Wells Company, published the American Phrenological Journal, and taught the first class in phrenology in the United States. She died at her home in New Jersey in 1901.
August 14
August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 139 days remain until the end of the year.