Page 224 - Alexander Fowler came to America 1768 as Lieutenant in the Eighteenth British Infantry. About the year 1769-1770 the regiment was stationed at Fort Pitt, and in 1771-1772 at Fort Chartres in Illinois. There, Fowler was for a time commandant of the post at Kaskaskia. Sometime before the Revolution, Lieutenant Fowler retired from the army and became a permanent resident of Pittsburgh. He embraced the patriot cause, acting as auditor of military accounts and deputy judge-advocate for the Western Department. Fowler died soon after the close of the war. One of his daughters became the wife of Samuel Sample, the well-known inn-keeper of Pittsburg.
