Jessie Allen Fowler

Jessie Fowler (1856–1932) was an American campaigner for temperance and a phrenologist. She was the honorary secretary of the British Women's Temperance Association. She made short animated films and published her claims about predicting the future and the character of criminals.

Life Fowler was one of the three daughters of the physician Lydia Folger Fowler and the leading phrenologist Professor Lorenzo Niles Fowler She was born in New York on 11 July 1856.

In January 1888 she was in Melbourne on a professional visit addressing people at the Melbourne Athenaeum. She was offering lectures and phrenological consultations.

Her father had a stroke and in 1896 she and her father returned to America where Jessie started to manage the Phrenological Journal Her father soon had another stroke In 1898 Jessie was writing about phrenology and “the world’s races”. Public interest in phrenology was not as high as it was but she continued to publish her writings.

In 1916 she made a phrenological study of the head of Pancho Villa and in 1922 she speculated on the future life of a child born with criminal parents.

Fowler had been born in New York and that is where she was buried after she died on 15 October 1932.