[2] He emigrated with his family to Boston, sailing from Port aux Basques in June 1901, and was living at 76 Berkshire Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts at the time of the 1904 Olympic games.
[nb 3] Fowler competed for the United States in the marathon at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri as well as the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
[nb 4] Including the 1906 Games, Fowler was a three-time member of the United States Olympic Marathon Team.
[13] Two years later in Boston, he finished second to Thomas Longboat in a race in which he was blocked by a freight train in Framingham, Massachusetts for approximately two minutes.
[16] Accepting a paid coaching position meant that Fowler was no longer an amateur athlete and ended his running career.