- 1834

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• Birth	Hannover, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Died	1834	Middleburg, Cuyahoga, Ohio
  Person ID	I85224	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	23 May 2005 00:00:00
  Children	> 1. Abram FOWLES, (Fowls), b. Abt 1790, of Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut > 2. Ephraim FOWLES   3. John FOWLES   4. David FOWLES
  Family ID	F36598	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Robert E. Ward HISTORY OF THE CLEVELAND GERMANS. See Chapter 1. The surname Fowls appear to have been some form of Americanization of a German name, perhaps from VOGEL, or GEFLÜGEL. "Fowls Road in Middleburg Heights recalls a prominent family headed by David L. Fowls (also Fowles) who is said to have been a German from Hannover. He reportedly arrived in America as mercenary soldier in the army of King George of England. In 1813, he followed his sons, Abram and John, to Plumbfield, as Middleburg Heights was then called. According to a family history, the father deserted to the American cause and served on General Washington's staff as an interpreter.1 He died in Middleburg Township in 1834. " 1.. "Fowles Family History." n. Pag. [3]. See also the newspaper account of the second Fowles Family Reunion(Aug.27, 1901) in the Berea Enterprise (Aug.30, 1901), p.5, col. 2. We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Robert Fowles, Martin B. Lewis, Helen Simpson, Kermit Simpson, and Dorothy McKelvey, the late Baldwin-Wallace College historian.