Bertha Fowler

Bertha Fowler (June 25, 1866 – May 27, 1952) was an American educator, as well as a Methodist Episcopal Church preacher and deaconess. In 1901, she established the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which united with the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1908.

Early life and education Bertha Fowler was born in Lena, Illinois, June 25, 1866. Her parents were Harry Griswold and Sallie M. (Pickard) Fowler, the latter of whom was a native of the state of New York.

On September 1, 1914, she transferred her services to the Folts Mission Institute at Herkimer, New York, of which institution she was elected president. and living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Bertha Fowler died May 27, 1952.