is name was Orson Squire
Fowler. In his day, it was a
name to be reckoned
with, a name that gar-
nered notice-and in

some cases tributes-from many of his triple-monikered con- temporaries: Julia Ward Howe, Henry Ward Beecher, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Edgar Allan Poe, to name a few.
He is largely forgotten now. He was buried just over a century ago in an un- marked grave in the Bronx, and there is no monument to his memory or his varied achievements. But there are ma...