THE FAMILY OF GRIFFITH BOWEN, GENTLEMAN,
WELSH PURITAN IMMIGRANT,
Boston, Mass., 16.38-9,
ESPEC/ALLY THE BRANCH OF ESQUIRE SILAS BOWEN.
Born in Woodstock, Conn., 1722.
By IJANIEL ROWEN (242.)
J ACKSONVILLB, FLA,
DACOSTA PRINTINU COMPANY.
FAMILY OF
GRIFFITH BOWEN, GENTLEMAN
'Honor thy Father and thy Mother.
Not to arrogate a superiority over our neigh bors, but to fraternize among ourselves; widening the horizon of the home, and extending the vista of our past.
To
1'"11 (l"it•c,\t-(15~nnbrnthc~, The prompter of this book, Esquire Silas Bowen, still livin~ in his " Records" and " Memoranda" thoughtfully handed down by him "for posterity to view."
PREFACE. This little book consol1·s itself for its shortcomings by the consideration that it may dn fnr a beginning, and may seem to be better than nnthin~. Some who take it up will exclaim that it has no index; not observing· that the place of one is supplied by the tables with their g-cnealogical numbers. A formal index will hardly be missed, except by outsiders who peep into the book from idle curiosity, and for whom this serious work was not und
CONTENTS. Pages. Table, ...... 3-24 Gcncalo~ical Data . 27-148 1--1 istorical and Biog-raphical 151-266 Appendix ...... 267-272
Book I. 1\tbles.
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FAMILY OF l'I-IILIP BOWEN,
SoN OF G1rn,·1,1TII ap .OWEN, A(.IAS Boll'I\N.
(Mo~tly in Wales.)
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FAMILY OF ISAAC OF W_OODSTOCK.-39.
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Bnn1h M, Dickson. ilt! ChnN, n. Morsu. lliil llitttlo N. 71111 ,J. l\h•ko 111'>/i \Vm: ,Josc1,h 0 731. 7 l,ydh1 ...... , lllll S11n1h 0, ...... :11'~1 Cltnrlus n ill/i l,y u l~msmus. 171 1 llnt•rlot ,J. llowon, .. ,MU ( llolon 11, llownrd 738 IO TA/ll,J,J8, FAMILY OF ISAAC.-98, TA111.1~ I. 01111,111\tlN, (I, (I, Cllll,111\l ,Julhl A. ll011Jumlt1 7r,o . . .rumoH n. •• ilil ~In, In Ootdnu ...... ,lkl\l l,l!\'I B. •• { 7ti:! a, lllrnoy. " 7/ill Bllun L, Gurdon. irt·l Wm,11, " ;r,r, lllloy Onr1l1111. lliU Ulnncho R, u 700 Mllry I~. u 'jfi7 Cnthorlno V, 0 7r,R temmus. 11 700 ChnrloA II, " 7tl0 Loon L, 7111 ncorgo!I, 'ill~ 2. Ablgnll, .. , ...... J71J Hollin J, 7tNI 7114 7Uli ,John n. 1". Onr,11111 , 'iUfl Mnry 0 'jflj .rnlh, Ann 'itlll 1 I l,num !,. Noble•. 71111 WIibur II, " 770 , .. llolun II. 0 771 fAltltn Uortlun .... • , .... ,a,r, Milton A. " 7'1:& (Jcm 0. u 7711 flArthur W, " 774 1 { Burl Oortlon 775 1 l\lltr' u 776 [ Jenne Rowen Oordon •. ,:1711 n~n~ o 'i7'I Julln H. " B77 Horbert'' 778 'l'A lJ l,E8, I r FAMILY OF ISJ\AC,-98, TAULE II. C11n,u1ui1N, Cl, CJ1111,1111~N, (I, (I. CJIIJl,UURN, N1111oy O. 7711 I l'11fv,ilmt.11 O. 117H llt•lll'Y I', 71<41 j l,ot1IHU lo]. 71!1 1 Jlolll')' Wight ...... ,llill 1111111111 I•'. 711:l llluloll I, 'ikll ArU111r\V, 7~ II C1111t, Ilonry..... J7~Jl ,John c. IIHII ll11s1111 A, 7tm fluu. IV, 7HII Ulms Bclw, 7H7 [ 111oronuu II, 71ffl Wm. JI,,., ...... IINl l•'rnnulR IJ. 78ll ·lAlluo Ci, 7lijl CJL•O, I•' 7111 Surnh. llH!! Wm, Hholton. 71M Cuth11rlno V ...... , ... IUUJ ,fuhn ~I. 0 7Ull iAnnlo M u 71NI 71HI 7111! 700 Ilonry Wight..... fl()() l!Ol Susnn A. 811:l IIINI .A1hunM. HO! HOO llolun g. !!OIi 1!07 ITtl 11011.I. Jlush 1!08 HUii HIii l,m·r Mlln ...... NII Kl:l ~1111')' Jil')gµH Jlulun n. Frndut·. llU'.! i;))n• M. iUNI 11 lllloy, l'i7 JMlnnlo II, J,,ustl!r, 71t'J llolun 1\1. 0 m, , l\l11ru11s U u 7111 Moren• A. 1•0•1<•1•, •••••• lllll ll~llth I, u 711i, D011\ I '' 71HI 7N1mc,r ...... I78 HlhUJIJ • anr, Luurlf. 0 7U7 IMnrcollu It ...... :HNH Wm. I'. llnn11os. 711K lllu111·r llowou f'ostur :11li 12 TART,ES. FAMILY OF DR. SILAS.-100. Ullll,IIIIRN• fl, fl1111,1111ms. (I, (I, 01111,IIIIRN, lluh•11 H1111th11r1I. IIIIH \ 11 .. 11111 S1111!1111r1I, i4l!II I l,1111IH11 ...... J;u l,11ulu11 JI. " ...... Ull11 1 .Amt~lnll H1111th111•1I. ll!JI u l,y,1111, • lll«J .l11•11ttu, " JINI I lll11h11r,1 I'. " t-1:!'J II Mnrs, IHI 1 ) N1•th1111lul II, VllnH, •11:J 1, Cornolln ..... , 11\!J l,l1uy Vlht•...... imJ C11rnullu M, 1,•u1ruhll1I I .. ... l l,nu)' Vlht• 1••111t•uhlhl MnruolhtH, ,JO! , E1lwl11 II. JIiii r, 111 Mnruullus.ll!ll[Allolll1oW,J JINI lluo. II, (I, .l(lj r,uuy, II Mlll'lllll. l!ll1lll111'UOIIIIH, ...... 40H { ,V::r \\;,hwy. f,oul~u. 7 01•. Aurollus .. 18/i JAmolhtA l'orhuR, ,vm. 1~1,111elM, 8 l,uuy Nnrth. 11111 Alnwr llurhuH ...... J("I Alox111ulor u. llm•v J••mnul'H ·1111 A ruholln M, • ' • lllm•hort B. Mnt')'A FAMILY OF DIJAH.-101. 0HIMlllKN. a. Cnll,IJJ&RN. 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JIii <1nrollnu r. 411-t lCnrl'lo H. 4:lli Henry C, 1116 Ot.ls B, 1117 otl• B ...... :mo A mnncln I, 11111 i FAMILY OF HENRV.-103. TABLE I. 0. "IIIJ,UUMN', ll, (l, 01111,flllBN, ( ll11,·I• C, flullor 14/"tli ,I 0•011h II, " MIi Amy A. u Kr.7 I (!y11U1l11 A ...... H7 l1011. W, " MH r,uthor I~. 0 Hlill llnt.tlo H, " l!IMI \ llolll'Y IJ. " !!Ill llonry 0, llowon 1!11:J 2 Jlunry ...... -HH Armlmln- " HUii { Wllllnm Ji". 0 !!Ill r,111t1. 0 l!llli l•'nmk r.. llnwon. 81111 8117 1.:~~~r~ v. :: 1!1111 II Nurrnnn M...... ,4411 uyrus ir. " 1!1111 ( Cur1•lo 1\1. •• 870 llortlUL M, u H7l ~ l,o\'I 1, ...... 4r~ll u, ,\ugustn K7!l Blh18 II Austin H73 llonry ..... , ... ,:!031 Luohuln ° 87~ r. l'nllr... , , , , ... , .• , , . ,4fil Luoll11 ° 87fi { Clnrlssn ° H711 llmu·y 0 H77 .Artumue H. llnwon 878 Ourtlo f,, u 8711 Hl!II r!\i't'~~!l1r• :: HIii n lll•11011I u...... 4fi:! ~ ,\llw1•t, .. KH2 ,l11su11h A, " II/ill iohlll It, 0 1<111 ,Jonnie E. 0 88/j lArmlmlu P. 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IL 1'1111,IJIU•iN. fNl1111•1•II, Iii& I ,11,111t 111 n. 11111 I 1'1111'111 M, , .... , ...... IIIH·r' I llultlc It, llli l Mumlc M, IIIK ) Amm ,\, 11111 llolos• W, .... , .... 11111 "'" I Nllu ,I. 1rJ11 l'hu•tuo• II, 11:.!I r.ouls A. Ohurlos II ...... HO Cluroncu, tr.?ll f"lWl'OltCU, trJ-1 l,oro1111 ,1, 11'.!n lJCorn A Vnrtur. 11~11 f,twlmlu A.··'··'······' ·4il l Normnn n. Curt or. I 11'J7 I ( 1''1,uuw!-I ,f, 1,iobhuhur I 1,•10111,\ • a 1>1111101 W ...... ~tr, l•"rnuccs A .. _... ..•. .... ,47:.!·{ I J Hu1·uh r, l 11~run1, ". 1' l'IWJ(~l' I \Allen B, l11Kr11h11111, l~mmu I, ...... -ii:J) E,·u I 0 \~h1r1• I'. l111r,,1h1nn Mory ,111110 ...... m ·, AllKUStUS ,I. .. I r B1lylh JI llowou. / B1111cr W,...... 47fi [('mu·tnuy M. ·• I Muhulh• O. " Blhllrt 11111 ( ll11rry 11111 [)111•11111 ...... 4ill·[ llmiu.m, 1111 Pnul Ill~ ,John, ,ljj r.uwls 'l\ 47K f Vl11mlo A, um llornuu E ...... , ..... 4711~ 1'hltll11 H, l Leo 1thuc, [S11ruh 4!!0 7',tlJf,ES, FAMILY OF IIENRY.-J03. T,\111.is IV. Clllt,IIHKN• (J, U. C1111,1J1CHN. flmm, Hcott. 11111 " I \ I 1111th, \IJ, 'IIIIHt'I i,IIIJIIW ' ...... ,IK "llllll'I'\'f IIIK ~11111111,1 N. IIJ\I ,\11'1'1>11 II, l'ltll'Cll K\17 ~tury. 0 811K rllnrrh1I, •• HIIII llurrlul.l" 1...... , ...... 11<:l.1[ ~hulJw " INNI l,u\·I llunj. 0 1"11 l\lnrtilu •• IHJ:J Mnud, h INMI 4 l,url 11011101•. ~INI• ,\ mm It, Uowon. ur.11 r,ulloA, 0 !Ir.I Luuluu 11 ...... IHa,lf J,ol'I 11 , •• Uli2 l,uulon II, •• Ur.I ,lusu111tl11u ll, llnwun, Sn1111wl A, u IMwln B1111mw, ...... ,.4"4 JI ~•r1111ul• II. " BtlWIII N. u l Oort1•uclo u Uiilt IH/0 11 1 111 1 1 8 111 111 !NII IJ1111lol W. flmlth ...... 41111 ,•• .·• 0 11' 111~ 1 A10 · 1,. INl2 l,Ol'Cll1.U H. O ,,l'tj 1 J 1 c, ,. • 11 Allen C. 0 4AA r, f,y1lhL ...... 201 Lucion n ° .... tHII·{ l1'lm·u11ct, H. Smith, 111~1 11,y,Jltt " 11114 111111unul.' ...... m,- 11::';~~ti\:' ;: INJ/i I 1 111111 !Nii INl!I M111•y, 4lrJ Flul'OIIUU 41!1 I>n.ul 'l' 411.J ll'loroncu .A. !NIii f lliU Ooo. W • ...... · ... 411/i·, ~~t"\v flil 7 Lucion 11 ...... ~~HI l,n11111,T. 41NI Loo,;· 0 1.;,0110• l11'J • r 1• , I l'1ml D. l•'rn•t. Oi3 ,-nu o • · · • •• • · • · .. · · ··•117 ·1 Ann lo Mur Frost. IIH 1l,11clun, 4118 18 1'A JI /,/18. FAMILY OF IIENRY.-103, TA111.1, V. 01111,1111 ..JN, ll. U. 01111,IIIINN. llir, f llolon Mm•y ... " ...... 41ttt-\ •ll:~1•~l1'1hl11u llt?!tn>lll Ifill H l'rur. !!lln• 'l't1Wltfll'•lClt1l'IIIU ~lllt'HhUII •••.••• iillllj N1111011h1 Wuull't1lk ll7i ~IO ~lln• i,:., ...... r.01 II M111·uh1, ...... ~Jl-,l11rno• 11. llonnot.t. r~t:l .lnmo• IL Bto1•011• r~NI Nnrnnl 8. N111th 117H IlluA, 0 • r~II iUuylor H, '' 11711 [,nurn.l, 11 m,, Asn 10:, r~~I lO Lnulu ...... • :!1:J j (I ll!IO C1•11tltl11M. rm~ I hu·I'). 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TA111.g 1.-Dr. ELISHA.-109, UIIIIIIINN, II, U, Ullll,1111111'1, JlllllOH Volomnn, !!',!fl U, Aluhut11hlo :l'JII 14onleu 1\lllrln U'J7 J,'1,rnulH \Vnylnncl,:!'JK,( l~l'1tL1Mt Wnhlo. r,117 Wllhnr ,\11gnst11• r.lHJ, l{uU,run Mntlhln IIIIU Hnmnol lJlnrkHnn, ,:lllll J\ f,01111 tlurt.rudu 111111 , C1t1·I llowun H11uh·u• 111111 1101 thn l{uto ...... r.10{ llnnn Ollll'urd " 11114 ,\,lollnu IJhnrlut.to :mo J11,lgnr Wnmllm1•y 11116 f \V , r,"I ,111111111 l'urry 111111 . j ,om urnoi · ·' · '· ·· · · ·· "' - [ llhnrlmt Clnl'k 11117 C111•11llnuOlnrk ...... r..t~, 1'11111 Mnrt·n.v IIIIH Cloo, IM11nr Mii Ohnrl<•• C!l111·k ••••• ,2111 l IChnrloR lhml fill C, C. 11, Hnrmlunto 111111 CornollnClmuu Mfi lAdolnhlo l,011lsu Mil 1111011 lluhnos r>17 r~lnry Ell1J1both MH Edl(III' ,Jnmus ...... :!!l:ll lldltlt Adollnu filll lllnnuhe r,r,o WyulllTo ,\, 1'11ylo1• lll'.'tl l'nrrlu Mnry AchllloH,,,r,r,J Jw111·11r 'l'hco, lh\'h-l'ht, .... 2aH Ornco l11lb.nhuth r,t» Ednn Cornolhl Boyt\ liM llortlm llowon " f,ll(I Cornolln SoJJhln •• ,i!llli IChnrl<•B Snmuol " r,r,7 IUobort 1'Jd1111r MK l lt"'l01·011co Hulon u MIi l{Jrhy llowon White filMl M111•y Augustn .... 2811 lll11J>h Ellsl111 " fill( { Oco. Potor .. M:.l Pi\MILY Oft' IJi\NIEL.-67. TA111.~ II. (I, (I, (!lfll,UIIMN, :1111,rvo)', Ill nnulol ...... ~12 f Cnl'l'ult rn. r,;r, fi'iU l 1111111< ...... II~ ,\, ,IIIIIKnll ...... ~Ill{ ~:r:;~~.rlol< IJ, r.i7 r.i8 ,1. f'oluuuw., ...... !!H-: u~~i:r'Y)~~- /i70 Ulll'l~fll 21r, t•:1111ly ...... ~111,: Nolly I!, llu1111y. T,l!O /-111111111 M. ,lohm11111, :!4Uf ,hnnuK I I •,,,, •• •,,,, •, j ,JoMt~J)h r.lHI iiUT T,11!1 ,Jorotno }"'. ,lohnson, r,110 llOO 001 22 FAMILY OF J'RISCILLA (lfoW!!N) CHENEY.-68. (fl,\lJr1ll'J'Elt OJ•' J(S(J s11.,1s). 0JIILHHl~N, (I, (!JIJJ,IHOlN, r.orhulu PoJ.J'u rAmt •• jl'urollnn u I, ll11hl11h ...... JH lT!lll1JI " ll111 Nnnuy l 'lwnoy ~Ill $. l,11U11•up ...... 11r. { 11 Wuulthy JIU Mury •• r Wuhlu Clurk 4, Oort•thy ...... ,JI'..{ h•,•fnl,I" " 5. Dunlol II. 118 l lloolus " Brully llonry ~lkl Hlrnm 0 267 u, Thcmlosln ...... JIii Sl•lvcetor" !!08 jHo,•, l~ostor llonry !!1111 Uosto 0 !!iO !J'il r. ltoX.}', ...... 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IJ1111J111i,(1111 I', Ullht•1·J llt:J ., II • , ,\Jfr~d II, 0 1111 'I IIICU II 110 •.•• ll IIUI t. ,Mt J\nnu \ " llli Churlos Jlowon • .,.:!UU 1 )rurJ.fn~·L;t 1,. ,, 1u1i flurlrwlo M. " 1117 lJin rus s. " IIJN \\'111, .J. '" :100 . jlfo111•y " 11111 )Olh·t•I' J111wt•11 UJlh(•l'I, 11111 Ulll'UI' Chono,v .... ,1118 l•'ro I H11l'1•Jot, B, Ullhul't, lli,2 00 1 1g::;;t • JI. .. .. m:i, n~~~,~~'. :: :~1 l!lllus :JOO 7'..t /11,/?8. FAMILY OF WILLli\M.-79, (I, 1•1111,ltllBN. (I, fl, f 1111MJIIP:N, 1111111·.1· M. nr,r, l•!1lwnr1I ,\, 111'111 r ~h11•y J., llf1i lll'llUII ,\, nr,H ... C1l11rt1lll'II w. 111',\I ll1•111•y ll ...... IKl1•[l Allc11 I,. IKKI llorlllll'I w. 11111 ,lohn Jo:llot, flll!! l•'1·1111kll11 JI. mui Wlnth1·011 g, 11111 1'11111 11. 11111'1 I I llunr~· ,\. IIIMI Ur. Uc,o. A. IKli ,, Jl•:11w111•1I II. IIIIK '"""""·· ...... ,4 ..... ,...... 1.18 l~lury ,\. 111111 Jo:llun A, llill Alfll08 I~. 11;1 I I ~lurlu ...... IKKI{ Jo:, M. Ulokli1•un. ~ Mm•y 1-111 Oun'I A11•ll11, llill I•' I' l•'l•k Iii-I ,\mulhl ,\ ...... mo { A;11cih1 M.° Ujf, llonry 1~. n7n rMuryW. 1111 11111rrlol I•'. :U~ I I Allee (I ,luh!!"'"'· llii U Mut.thow ...... Ill{ ,\1111ottu l, ...... lllll·I lolrlc 11. UiH I C11rl II. IIW Emily J. 1114 Mury JJ. 1!80 4 I,owl• 14~ j Annlu llollu. 1181 lJK!J lAnclruw w ...... urn I '.{',•:~~fro'\;. l)lq) \fo!UmA, 1184 fi Wllllnm HII Book II. Genealogical Data of the Family in America OUR AMERICAN BOWENS. GENEALOGICAL DATA. F'IHa'.l" GE)NE)HA'J:'IONo •• GRIFFITH BOWEN, gentleman, Puritan immigrant to Boston, Mass., in the winter of 1638-9, from the parish of Langenith, in the district of Gower, Gla:norganshire, South Wales, son of Francis and Ellen (Franklin) Bowen, was born not long after the year 1600, probably in Lan genith (where his widowed mother continued to live in 1638). He married, not far from 1627, Margaret, daughter of Henry Fleming. Six children born in Wales: 2. Margaret, b. about 1628; d. in Roxbury, Mass. 3. Fra11ds, b. about 1630; d. probably in Wales. 4. William, b. about 1632; d. in Turkish captivity. 5. Henry, b. about 1634; d. in Woodstock, Conn. 6. Mary, b. about 1635, d. in Roxbury, Mass. 7. Eli:::abdlt, b about 1637; cl. in Boston, Mass. In 1638, till the middle of September, Griffith and Margaret were ~el ling divers pieces of real estate in Gower, and on February 6, 1639, they were" taken in for members of y• congregation" in Hoston, New England. Public records repeatedly show them there till the spring of 1649 and no lon!,{er. Then, in 1650, the records of Wales take them up. Meantiml', in America, there are four children baptized in Hoston and Roxbury. 8. Estlur, F,~b. 17, 1639, (" Esther, y0 daughter of Brother Griffyn Bowen, baptized the 17th of y 0 same I 2th month* 1638." Records of Fir~t Church, Hoston). 9. Abigail, April 25, 1641, (" Abigael, y" daughter of brother Griffyn Bowen, the 25th clay of y" 2d month, 1641." Records of First Church, Hoston). • 'rho llnd, 1111111th Imhof Mnr,•h In tlw oht Nlylo, Foh, le the 1:!th '7-7 28 rlENEAL0GJ0,11, DATA 10, /'mid, baptized in Roxbury, May 5, 1644, 11. Donalt, J\pril 11, 1647, (" Doriah Bowen, y0 daughter of brother Griffin Bowen, the I I th day of y" 2d month, 1647, by our pastor, being about 6 days old." Ros ton Ch. Rec.) Returning to Wales about 1650 he left in New Eng land our ancestor, his 3rd son, Henry (5), and these three daughters: Margaret, Mary and Elizabeth. He resided many years in Swansea, Glamorganshire, S. Wales, but by 1669 he had taken up his residence in London, in the parish of St. Saviour, Southwark, where probably he died in 1675. Of Margaret's death, the place and date, we lack positive information. 8E)COND GE)Nl:CHA'rION. 2. MARGARET BOWEN, daughter of Griffith (1), born in Wales about 1628, married in Roxbury, Mass., Dec. 24 1 1647, John Weld, born in Eng., Oct. 28, 1623 1 died in Rox bury, Sept. 20, 1691. She died there Sept. 13, 1692. John Weld had a share in the Roston estate of Griffith Howen. It was probably Margaret's daughter, Mary, who was con firmed by Rev. John Eliot at the same time 11•ith (her cousin) Elizabeth Bowen, and with Grace Morris, sister of Edward Morris, who presently marrie Children born in Roxbury, Mass.: 13. Hem:;•, 1i·., bapt. Feb. 12, 1660. ("Moneth 12, day 12, 1659, Henry, soun of Henry Bowin," Roxbury Rec.) 14. Eli::abct/1, bapt. Jan. 27, 1661. ("Moneth I I, day 27, 166o, Elizabeth, daughter to Henry Bowen). 15. Jo/111, bapt. Sept. 7, 1662. (Moneth 7, day 7, 1662, John, son to Henry Bowen). 16. Margart'/, bapt. May 28, 1665. (Moneth 3, day 28, 1665, Margar.:t, daughter to Henry Howen). 17. Jl,fary, bapt. Sept. 23, 1666. ("Moneth 7, day 23, Mary, daughter to Henry Bowen"). She was confi,med by Pastor John Eliot when 20 years old. No further record, 18 . .Margan•/, bapt. March 1, 1668. (Moneth 1, day 1, 1667, Margaret, daughter to Henry Bowin). (New Year's day in old style was March 25 and the earlier days of that month were reckoned in the old year.) 19. Abigail, bapt. August 1, 1669. ("Moneth 6, day 1 1 1669, Abigail, daughter to Henry Bowin"). 20. Abigail, bapt. August 21 1 1870. (Moneth 6, day 21, 1670, Abigail, daughter to Henry Bowen"). 21. Pt·1111d, bapt. March 10, 1672. (Moneth 1, day 101 1671, Pmue/, so,1 to Henry Bowin." " 16go, April 13, ad mitted to full communion Penuel Bowen"). 22. Esther, bapt. March 14, 1676. ("Moneth 1, day 14, 1675, Ester, daughter of Henry Bowen," Rox. Ch. Rec'ds). 23. Isaac, born April 20, 1676, ancestor of us all. Lieut. Henry Bowen, marril'd (2nd) April 14, 1684, Su sa1111a, widow of Peleg Heath, of Ro,rbury. No children. SECOND OENERATJO.V. 8. MARY BOWEN, daughter of Griffith ( 1), was born in Wales, about 1636, and she died in Roxbury, Mass., Oct. I .3, 1707. She was the "Widow Child," re111e111• be red in the divisio11 of her father's farm at Muddy. River. It is supposed that she married Benjamin Child, of Roxbury (E. A. B.), late "from Rury St. ,Edmonds, Lincolnshire, Eng." (Morris Reg). Their son, Bt'1yiw11i1 Child, born in Roxbury in 1656, died Jan. 21, 1723, married March 71 1682, Grace Morris, born in Roxbury, Feb. 7, 1661 1 bapt. Feb. 17, 1661, admit ted to the church August 21, 1681 (011 the same day with Elizabeth Bowen, daughter of Henry, and afterwards wife of Dea. Edw, Morris, brother of Grace). Benjamin and Grace had 12 children and 77 grandchildren. Six of the eight sons removed to Woodstock, where their families be came among the most numerous and prominent. The second son, Benjamin, was grandfather to Rev. Jedediah Morse, of Charlestown, Mass., "father of American Geog raphy" anrl father of Prof. Sam') F. H. Morse, the inventor of the electric telegraph. '1'. ELIZABETH HOWEN, daughter of Griffith (r), was born in Wales about 1637, and she died in Hoston, Mass., March 2, 1713. She married Dr. Isaac Addington of Boston, as ap pears in the deed, dated April 7, 1669: " Griffith Bowen, sometimes of New England, now resident in London ...... in consideration of a con tract of marriage now consummated between Isaac Ad dington of Boston in New England, chirurgeon, and my daughter Elizabeth Bowen ...... confirme unto my soone, Isaac Addington aforesaid, all my right, interest and title in two parcels of land scituate in Boston." . . . . Dr. Isaac Addington was born January 22, 1645, and he died March 19, 1715. .32 GENEALOOJG,I I, DA '/'A 10. l'ENIEL BOWEN, son of Griffith (1), was born in what is now Brookline-but let us hear the account uf Rev, John Eliot under date of 1(144, month 3, day 5, (May). "l'enicl H11we11, the son of Mr. Bowen of Boston Church by communion of churches, he \iving at a farme nearer to us than to Boston, his wife was deliv • d ,;f this child by God's mercy wthout the help of any oth r woman. God himself helping his pore servants in a straight." Peniel when five years old went across the sea with his parents. When 18 years of age he was apprenticed in London, and thi,i is the last we hear of him. ·He probably died before his father, a!I he is not mentioned in the settle ment of his estate. (E. A. B.) •rHIRD Gll)Nll)RA'r10N • 13, HENRY BOWEN, son of Lieut. Henry (5), was born in Roxbury, Mass., Oct. 13, 1659 The place and time of his death have not yet been discovered. He and his brother John were among I he prominent pioneers of Woodstock, and according to a memorandum in the Book of Esq. Silas ( 1747), "Henry Bowen" his "father's uncle" was one of the thirteen men who first began to .break the soil there. Both Henry and John participated in a "drawing" for lots April 11, I 694. Afl:er this date we hear of Henry Bowen, jr., no more. We do not know that he married. 14. ELIZA HETH BOWEN, daughter of Lieut. Henry {5), married in Roxbury, Mass., May 24, 1683, Edward Morris, baptized in Roxbury, March I3, 1659, and dying in Wood stock, Conn., August 29, r727. Hii: widow, Elizabeth, lived THIRD ORN/WAT/ON. .33 ~ixteen years longer, dying in Woodstock, Nov. 20, 1743, in her 83rd year. Deacon Edward Morris was a son of Lieut. Edward and Grnce (Bett} Morris, and he was an older brother of Samuel Morris, the ancestor of the two naval commanders, Charles and George U. Morris. Children born, the first three in Roxbury, the rest in \Voodstock: 24. E/icabdk, b. Feb. 12, 1684; cl. Feb. 19, 1685. 25. Eli:::abdk, b. Feb. 9, 1686; d. March 17, 1704. 26. Edward, b. Nov. 9, 1688, ancestor of J. F. Morris, Esq., of Hartford, Conn., l'res. of Charter Oak Bank, and author of the" Morris Register." 27. Grace, b. Nov. 14, 1692. 28. Ab1iail, b. Oct. 25, 1694, 29. S1tsan11n, b. August 16, 169S. 30. Prude11c1•, b. August 9, 1702. The good pastor, John Eliot, mentions the mother of this group of children at a period two years before her marriage: "1681 m. 6, day 21, Mary Weld, Grace Morris, Elizabeth Howen, Prudence Briclg, these 4 maidcs took hold on the covenant." 15. JOHN BOWEN, second son of Lieut. Henry (5), mar ried in Roxbury, Mass., 1695, Hannah Brewer, born in Roxbury, July 5, 1665, daughter of Daniel Brewer, and sister of Rev. Daniel Brewer, (settled about this time in Springfield, Mass). Before marriage, John Bowen had been a prominent Woodstock pioneer with his brother 1-knry. Both were in W. as late as April 11, 1694. John died in Roxbury in 1718, about 56 years old. Children all born in Roxbury: 31. llm11111k, b. July i4, 1696. 32. E/i:;11/Jt'lk, b. August CJ, 1698. 33. Abigail, b. July 3, 1700. 34. Snrak, b. April 4, 1702, cl. Jan. :i9, 1705. 35. Jok11, b. Feb. 23, 1706. 34 f/NNNAl,0f/10.H, />A 7',t 18, MARGARET BOWEN, daughter of Lieut, Henry (5), baptized in Roxbury, Moss., March 1, 1688, was confirmed May 10, 1685 (" 1(185 m 3 d 10 Margret Bowin [with six others], all y"" wry" day received to take hold on y0 cove nant"). Margaret married, Nov. 6, 11188, Joseph Bacon, born Jan. 1, 1665, died in Pomfret, Conn., May 31, 1741. Margaret died in Woodstock, Conn., Feb. 19, 1727. 20, AHi GA IL BOWEN, doughter of Lieut. Henry (5), bap tized in Roxbury, Mass., Aug-ust 21, I 670; wm1 received on probation July 4, 1686 ('' 111 5 d 4 Abigal Bowin was re ceived to take hold on the covenant"), (" May I 3, I 689, Mehetabel Heath and Abigail Bowen received to full com munion"). In Woodstock, Nov. 27, 1690, she drew, in her own right, lot 35. She married Nov. 11, 1698, in Woodstock, Nathaniel Aspinwall, born June 5, 1666, died after June 15, 1712. Shi: died Apr. 16, 17 36. 23, ISAAC BOWEN, youngest child of Lieut. Henry (5), was born in Roxbury, Mass., April 20, 1676, and he died in Stoughton, Moss., soon after Jan. 1, 1727. He married about 1699 in Brookline, Mass., Hannah Winchester, born there Jan. 11, 1680, daughter of Josioh and Mary. When first married he livi:d for thrt:e or four years in Framing ham, Mass,, where, in 1701, he made oni: of eighteen to or ganize the first church there. Two children were born to him in Framingham, all the rest in Roxbury. Children: 36. Henry (the father of Esq. Silas, of Woodstock), was born in Frnmingham, J unc 30, 1700, and he died in Woodstock, Conn., Jan. 1, 1758. 37. Ha1111a/1,b.Oct. 25, 1702, cl. Oct. 31, 1735,m. Dec. 30, 1725, John Clmmberlain. 38. llfary, b. Dec. 13, 1704, d. June 17, 1775; m. April 2, 1728, Capt. Thomas Clark, of Newton, Mass., who d. June 30, 1775. l•'OUR1'fl rlENEIIA TTON. "To Mary Clark my pastry pan"-(From the will of her g-randmother, Mary Winchester). 39. ls1111c, b. July 29, 1707. 40. S11m/1, b. Sept. 22, 1709, cl. August 20, 1716. 41 . .fosiak, b. Nov. r, 1711 ; 111. Mary, dau. of Hlkt111t111 Wi11d1,·stl'r, who d. Oct. 4, 1782. 42. /'e1111d, b. March 29, 17 r 5, d. March r 8, r 760. 43. 5'ara/1, b, April 23, 1717. "I give to Sarah Bowing my g-reat platter and warm ing--pan"-(From will of Grandmother Winchester). Capt. Thomas Clark, her brother-in-law, was appointed Sarah's guardian two years after her fhther's death. Isaac's wife, Hannah, died about r 719. He married, (2nd) April 15, 1720, Mrs. Elizabeth Tucker. •:hildren born in Roxbury: 44. Rm;i1111i11, b. March 6, I 72 r, d. Dec, 1, 1721. 45. h."/i:mbt'l/1, b. Sept. 19, 1722. "My J<"ather's youngest sh;ter Elizabeth married ta Barker, of Duxbury, Massachusetts Hay"-From the mem. of Esq. Silas Bowen. F'OURTH GENEHA'J.'IONo 35. JOHN BOWEN, only son of John (14), married in Woodstock, Conn., June 6, 1734, Mchetable, daughter of John and Prudence May. Children born in \V'oodstock: 46. Me/ida/,/c, b. March 4, 1735. 47. Jol,11, b. Feb. 11, 1737. 48. Pe1111c/, b. Jan. 13, 1739. 38. Esquire HENRY BOWEN, son of Isaac (23), was born in Framingham, Mass., June 30, 1700, and he died in Woodstock,Conn.,Jan. 1, 1758. He married in Woodstock, Conn., May 10, 1721, Margaret Davis, who was born there Feb. 7, 1699, and who died there April 14, 1762. She was a daughter of Matthew and Margaret (Corbin) Davis, Wood- r//?.VN,ll,Of/TG.-1 T, D.-17'.-I stock pioneers from Roxhury. Children born in Wood stock: 49. Si/11s, b. April 7, 1722; d. in Brookfield, Mass., Feb. 16, 1790. 50. 11f11tll11·1,•, b. Oct. 22, 172-1-; d. in Woodstock, Feb., 16, 1806. 51. f/11111111/1, b. August 9, 1726; d. August 21, 1727. 52. lmar, b. August 4, 1728; d. Oct. 4, 1775; m. Mary Hayes, Oct. 29, 1760. 53. Ha1111ali, b. Jan. 27, 1730; d. August 27, 1739. 5.J., 1lfargatt'/, b. April 12, 17 36; d. Feb. 1 3, 1742. 55. Jo/111, b. May 17, 1741; d. after 1770. 39. ISAAC BOWEN, son of Isaac (23), was born in Rox bury, Mass., July 29, 1707. He married, about 1733, Jc rusha Prentice, born in Newton, Mass., about 1709, daughter of Capt. Thomas l'rc:ntice, Children born in Woodstock, Conn.: 56. Eli:::abdli, b. July 29, 17 35. 57 . .-lb1iail, b. June 26, 1737. 58. Prc11/icc, b. March 16, 1741. 59. Cliarlcs, b. 1747; died in Charlestown, N. H., 1809. 42. PENUEL BOWEN, son of Isaac (23), was born in Roxbury, Mass., March 29, 1715. He married in Sherburne, Mass., Oct. 10, 1~37, Frances Throop, widow of Rev. Amos Throop, of Shetburne, formerly of '\Voodstock, Ct. She died about 1769.. Children born in Sherburne, and baptized by Rev. Abel Stiles in Woodstock, Conn.: 6o. lll'llry, b. July 22, 1738. 61. Be1y'a1111i1, b, Sept. 2 1, 17 40. 62. Penuel, b. June 28, 1842; cl. in Charleston, S. C., 1787, 63. Frances, b. June 9, 1744. 64. Ha,wa/1, b. April 16, 1746; m. Dec. 5, 1768, Dr. Allen. /t'//1"1'/I f/11'.\'f,}/l.l '/'lON. .17 48. Esquire SI LAS HOW EN, son of Esq. Henry (36), was born in Woodstock, Conn., /\pril 7, I 722, He died in Brookfield, Mas~., Feb. 16, 1890. I le married in Wood· stock, April 17, 1746, Dorothy Lyon, who was born in Woodstock, May 12, 1727, and dil'd there May 16, I 762, of consumption induced by a had cold. She was a daugh ter of Dea. Daniel and l'dscilla (Morse) Lyon. Children born in Wooustock, Conn.: 65. Hm111ah, b. March 22, 1747; d. Augugt 14, 1877. 66. Hl'llry, b. March lJ, 1749; d. Dec. 8, 1830. 67 . .Da11id, b. Oct. 2 I, I 750; d. April 13, 1829. 68. Priscilla, b. July 22, 1753; d. Sept. 4, 1841. 69. htis/ia, b. July 17, 1755; lost at sea, Oct., 1780 Esq. Silas Bowen married (2nd) in Windham, Conn., Jan. 11, 1764, Mrs. Mehetabel (Huntington) Webb, born August 9, 172~; died in Brookfield, Mass., about Jan., 1793. She was a daughter of Nathaniel and Mehetabel (Thurston) Huntington, and widow of Zebulon Webb,jr., who was born July 30, 1725, and died May 10, 1760. Children born in Woodstock: 70 . .Doro/II)•, b. Dec. 31, 1764: cl. in Brookfield, Mass., April 18, 1787. 71. Sarah, b. Oct. ,?O, 1766. 72. j,n,slia, b. July 1, 1770; cl. May 28, 1842. 73. Nat/1a11il'l J/1111lli1gto11, b. August 3, 177 3. He m. in Brookfield a widow, Thirza --. ,,. 50. Captain MATTHEW BOWEN, son of Esquire Henry (36), was born in Woodstock, Conn., Oct. 22, 1724, and died there Feb. 16, 1806. He married in Pomfret, Conn., Oct. 4, 1750, Mary Dana, who was born there March 3, 1727, and who died in Woodstock, June 22, 1813. She was a daughter of Isaac and Sarah ( Winchester) Dana. Children born in Woodstock: 74. lllargaret, b. Nov. 14. 1751; d. Dec. 16, 1831; .m. f/B.VE.1 LO(lf(),t I, fJA 7',t June 18, 1772, Ebenezer Smith, b. May 18, 1748; d. Feb. 11, 1825. 75. Jl111'.)', Ii. Oct. 22, 1753; m. May 12, 1789, David Williams, b. Sept. 1 3, 1 76 I. 76. /)a11/onl, bapt. Oct. 5, 1755. 77. Gn'jfit/1, b. June 15, 1757; d. Feb. 18, 1759. 78. Gl'ijfitlt, bapt. Jan. 27, 1760, died on Staten Island; a Revolutionary soldier, I 776, 79. /Villia111, b. Dec. 28, 1763; cl. May 14, 1837. 80, .Matt/11-w, b. Feb. 10, 1669; died in youth. 8 I. Ha111111/t, h. April 21, 1770; d. August 3, 1841 ; m. August 24, 1794, John Williams, b. Oct. 11, 1772. 82. Da11/orl/1, b. Sept. 25, 1772; m. Mary--. 55, JOHN BOWEN, son or Esq, Henry (36), was born in Woodstock, Conn., May 17, 1741, and died there after 1770. He married in Woodstock, Jan. 2, 1763, Dinah Sawyer. Children born in Woodstock: 83. Aaron. 84. Lucretia. 85. Jolm, b, Sept. 23, 1706, 86. Melissa. 87. Eli::abetlt, b. August 9, 1769; m. Nathan Abbott. 88. Lucy, b. August 9, 1769. 89. Prudence, b. Nov, 13, 1770. 58, PRENTICE BOWEN, son of Isaac (39) was born in Woodstock, Conn., March 16, 1741. During the war of Independence he was in New York city, and a commissary in the Federal army. Here he married and passed his life. " He had four or five children," of whom one: 90. C/1ar/es, was born about 1773, and died about 1839. He was r<.:arccl by his uncle Charles (59) in Charlestown, N.H. 59. CHARLES BOWEN, son of Isaac (39), was born in Woodstock, Conn., in 1747, and he died in Charlestown, N. H., in 1809. He married Uinah Field of Northfield, Mass., 8/X'l'Jf ONNIW,l 'l'ION. ,19 who died in 1835, at the age of 88. Children born In Charlestown, N. 1-1. 91. Fa1110 1, who married Joseph Heaton and had two daul-(htcrs. 92. j111111·s ( Dr.) for nearly forty years a prominent phy sician in lllo11111ficld, Mc., and d. Feb. 18, 18;6. He mar ried a daughter of Obadiah Dickinson, Es11., of Northfield, Mass. No chiklren. 93. Cl1t11'1,·s, the historian of his branch, and who died in 18~6. 94. f.11c; 1, died in I 8 I 3-Mrs. l'omcroy. 82, Rev. PENUEL BOWEN, son of Penuel (42) was born in Sherburne, Mass., June 28, 1742, and died in Charleston, S. C., about 1787, leaving a son: 95. Natltanid, who became bishop of S. C. l!IIX"J."1-I 01:CNE)HA'rlON, 86, HANNAH BOWEN, daughter of Esq. Silas (49) was born in Woodstock, Conn., March 20, 1747, and died ,in Charlotte, Vt. August 14,1817. She married in Woodstock, December 10, 1767, Asa Smith, who died probably in the Revnlutionary army, Aug. 19 1 1775. Child born in Wood stock: 96. A son, who settled in Charlotte, Vt., with whom Hannah died. 88, Deacon HENRY BOWEN, son of Esq. Silas (49). was "born March y" 9th, 1749," in \,Vooclstock, Conn., and he died in Eastford, Conn., Dec. 8, 1830. "May 26, 1726, l lcnry Howen went to Lebanon [to] live at Mr. Hides." He married in Lebanon about 1768 Lydia Fowler, born f/RNRAl,OOW.1/, IJA1'.I there Feb, 7, 1753; died in West Woodstock, Conn.,July 8, I 806, She was a daughter of Dijah and Abigail Fowler, and a sister of Capt. Juhn Fowler. Children born in West Woodstock: 97. L1'11i, b. Sept. 28, 17(9; d. April 11, 1852, 98. /sane, b. April 9, 1771; d. Feb. 2(,, 1845. 99. Ab1:1;11il, b. Oct. 12, 1772; d. August 11, 1775. 100. Silas, (Dr.) b. Sept. 6, 1774-; d. Sept. 16, 1857. 101. /Jijnli, b. May 27, 1777; d. May 21, 1852. 102. li/is/111, b, Feb. 20, 1779; cl, June 8, 1853 103. flt-111:1•, b. Oct. 18, 1780; d. Feb. 25, 1849. 104, Daniel, (Gen.) b. July 20, 1783; d. Sept. 13, 1859, 105. Lydia, b. April 4, 1787; d. Jan. 23, 1H14. 106. Ha1111alt, b. Jan, 21, 1793; d. Feb. 9, 1871. 107. Jo/111, b, Nov, 28, 1795; d. May 4, 1856, 108. Sa11111d, ( Dr.), b. Dec. 1 1, 1797 ; d. May 20, 185 2. 81, DANIEL BOWEN, son of Esq. Silas (4-9), was "born Octo"' y'' 21st,on Sunday evening, A. D. 1750," in Wood stock, Conn. " Deceased April 13, 1829," '· Enlisted April 1, 1777, in Capt. Mannings Comp'y of 2nd Reg't Conn. Continental Linc. Discharged April 2, 1780." ·' Daniel Bowen and Mehctablc Packard married to gether Feb. 21, 1788, he 37 years of age, she 29." Ther were married in Brookfield, Mass., and they clied in Read ing, Vt." "Mehetable Bowen was born June 6, 1758," "died May 22, 1838, aged 80 years." At marriage they settled on the 300 acre tract in the S. E. corner of Reading, Windsor Co., Vt. Children born there: 109. h:/1'.~lia, (Dr.) b.Jan. 2, 1791; d. April 6, 1863. I 10. Dorothy, b. July :10, I 793; d. Sept. 19, I 866. 111. Hcn•c_y, b. April 2, 1795 ; d. April 11, 1795. 112. Silas, b. Nov. 8, 1797; d, March 4, 1884. 113. S11sm111a, h. Sept. 1, I 799; d. May 10, I 879. 88, PRISCILLA BOWEN, daughter of Esq. Silas (49), born in Woodstock, Conn., July 22, 1753; died in STX'l'lf G lmRIIA 'l'JON, Weathersfield, near North Springfield, Vt., Sept. 4, 1841. She married about I 798 in Brookfield, Mass., Waldo Cheney, of Woodstock, Conn. "Corporal in the 7th Co, of Gen. Putnam's Reg't, from May 11 to December 14, 1775." Children born in Baltimore, Vt.: 114. Hulda/1, b. about 1779, m. Benj. l'nge, of Balti- more, Vt. 11 5. Lotlm,p, b, abuut 1781 ; d. Jan. 188 1. 116, W,·alth;•, d. enrly. 117. Dorot/1_1 1, 111. Jesse Clark. 1 18. IJ1111id /Jowm, d. in childhood. I 19. Tltt'odosia, m. Capt. Foster Henry. 120. R.,1.i:1 1, 111. Gideon Chapin. I 21. Oll1•t'r /,011ell, "d. March 5, 18 I 2, aged I 8 years." "He was a clerk in Capt. Henry's store,' says Diana ((iilbert) Sykes, 122. Ha1111c1/1, 111, Thomas Prentis. 123, Lucius fl., b, April 21, 1800, d. in Berlin, 0., Sept. 19, I 846. 70. DOROTHY ROWEN, daughter of Esq. Silas (49). was born in \,Vooclstock, Conn., Dec. 3 I, I 764, ti, in Brook field, Mass., A pr. 18, I 787. She married in Brookfield, Mass., Rufus, son of Capt. Bcnj. Barrett. Their daughter, born in Brookfield: I 24. T/1eodos1i1. Tl. SJ\RJ\11 BOWEN, daughter of Esq. Silas (49), was born in W'lodstock. Conn., Oct. 20, 1766, She married in Brookfield, Mass., Aaron Eaton, and settled in Tolland, Conn., whl're probably she died. Children born and reared there: 125. Slteldo11. 126. flt11111a/i, 127. Jcruslui. 128. C/1c1rlott1·. 129. Louisa. Sheldon Eaton ( 125) reared a family in Tolland. Three 42 rmNRA/,O(UO.I f, /JA 'l'A of the dau~htcrH arc said t11 have settled in Homer, N. Y., one marrying a Mr. McGraw. "12, JERUSI IA B< >WEN, yuuni,rest daughter of Esq. Silas (49), was born in \Vomlstnck, Conn., July 1, I 760, and she died in Cavendish, Vt., May 28 1 1842. Slw married in Brookfield, Mass., Feb. 13, 1792, Ca:1t. Isaac Gilbert, who was born in Brookfield, June 21, 17691 and died in C:wcn dish, Vt., July 5, 1862. He was a son of Seth and Pru dence (Satterly) Gilbert. Children born in Cavendish, Vt.: I 30. 11/dteta/Jcl, b. Sept. I 3, I 792; cl. Sept. 23, I 863. 131. Sd/1, b. March 3, 1797; d. · •ct. 5, 1834. 132. Soplm111it1, b. Oct. 20, 179~ J. June 23, 1861. I 33. Cloniula, b. Sept, 7, 1801 ; d. Jan. 28, I 864. 134. Zmas Clad:, b. Nov. 7, 1803; d. May 9, 1806. 135. St1ralt, b. Dec. 8, 1805; d. June 17, 1806. 136. lsat1c Bowm, b. Sept. 10, 1807; d. Feb. 25, 1833. 137. Dit111t1, b. July 11, 1809. t 38. Oliva C/1c11t')', b. March 8, 181 2; d. Sept. 6, 1872. "19. WILLIAM BOWEN, son of Capt. Matthew (50), was born in \1/oodstock, Conn., Dec. 28, 1763, and died there May 14, 1837. lie married in Pomfret, Conn., Dec. 25, I 788, Mary Chandler, who was horn there Augui;t 15, I 7601 and who died in \Vonclstock, Feb. 10, 1834. She was a daughter of Peter and Mary Chandler. Children born in Woodstock, Conn.: 139. George, b. June 8, I 789, d. Jan. 6, I 846. 140. Mtll'J', b. Feb. I 3, 1792; d. Dec. 10, 1850. She married Dec. 11, 18171 Col. \,Vm. Hancock, b. June :-t8, 1792; d. June 14, I 868. 141. Mattltcw,b.Jan.28, 1794; d. Dec. 11, 1868. 142. /,cw1's, b. June 10, 1796: d. Sept. 27, 1796. 143. William, b. April 11, 1800; d. Jan. 14, 1849. 90, CHARLES BOWEN, son of Prentice (58), was born in New York city about 1773, and he died in Charlestown, 8/XT/l otmtmA 'J'J()N, N. 11., in 1839. He married Belinda Prouty, born Nov. 5, 1785. She died in I 882. Children born in Charlestown, N. 11.: 144. l'rmtli-,·, h. i\pril 7, 18ofi; d. ,\pril 17, 1877. 145. r;//111anj., b. Oct. 10, 1810; d. Feh . .:?2, 1892. 1 146. F111111J H., h. May 101 1820. r;t'org,· /'.' b. April I 7, I 824. 148. H/ll'tlC<' If., b. April 28, 1828; d. in California in 1885. Unmarried. 93. CHARLES BOWEN, son of Charles (59), was born in Charlestown, N. H., and died in Montpelier, Vt., in 1856. I-le married in Northfield, Mass., Esther S111itl1 Houghton, Children: 149. /,11() 1 Po111cro_y, b. in Northfield, Mass., Sept. 29, 1814. She 111. James R. Langdon, of Montpelier, Vt. I 50. Cltar/cs Ed,mrd, b. :a Boston, Mass., Jan. 27, 1816. I 5 I. Samit f/01~{[/t/on, b. in Northfield, Mass., Dec. 5, 1818. 152. Af11rt/1a l., b. in Northfield, Nov. 14, 1820. She 111. John Springer, of New York City. 153. lldcn l•i·1111.-cs, b. in Northfield April, 1823. 154. Harriet C/1ip111an, b. in Middleburg, Vt .. May 24, 1827. 155. Edward l/011g/1to11, b. May 4, 1830, and drowned June 11, 1846. 156. fl,'111:v Comdi11s, b. at Middleburg, Vt.. Sept. 29, 18.33, lived in Montpelier. 157. Gt'/lrgc l'rt'll/1,·c, b. at Middleburg Dec. 1 1, 1835, lived in Chicago. 94. LUCY HOWEN, daughter of Charles (59), w,1s born in Charlestown, N. 1-I.,and died in Northfield, Mass.,June, 1813. She married William Pomeroy, of Northfield, Mass. Chil dren: I 58. Cliarlcs. 159. Wil/ia111. 160. Ann. 161. Lucretia. 44 ONNKILOGWAI, IJA'l'A 95, RT. REV. Ni\TIIANIEL BOWEN, Bishop of South Carolina, son of Rev. l'en11el Bowen, was born in Boston, Mass., June 29, I 779. I le married ( I 805), in Charleston, S. C., Margaret Blake, daughter uf John Blake, Est(,, whose wife was a Miss Mercier, of Huguenot descent. Severn) children were born to them, of whom 1,e can designate only ( 162) the S/111, wlw sur;•h•t·d /11'.f father, but died soon af. terwards, li!l"VE)N'l.'•I GE)NE)HA'J.'IONo BT. LEVI BOWEN, son of Deacon Henry (66), was born in West Woodstock, Conn., Sept. 28, 1769, and he died in Homer, N. Y., April 12, 1852. He married in Woodstock, Anna Skinner, born there Oct. 16, 1770. She died in Ho mer, June 12, 1841. Children born in Homer, N. Y.: 163. Ntmc_1 1, b. March 1, 1794; cl. Feb. 1, 1836. 164, Ira, b. August 6, 1795; cl. Jan. 30, 1869. 165. Dolly, b. Sept. 19, 1797; cl. Feb. 11, 1847. 166. Orm, b. Nov. 11, 1799; cl. Oct. 28, 1872. 167. Dija/1, b. July 24, 1801; cl. Oct. 3, 1801. 168. Harriet, b. August 16, I 802 ; cl. March 29, 1 882. 169. f,J•dia, b. Feb. 16, 1805; d. May 7, 1838. 170. f.c;,i F/lwlcr(Judge), b. Nov. 11, 1808; d.J:in. 27, 1889, 171. Eras11111s, b. July 29, 1811; d. August 101 1873. 98. ISAAC ROWEN, son of Deacon Henry Bowen (66), was born in W. Woodstock, Conn., April 9, I 77 I, and he died in Meadville, Penn., Feb, 26, 1845. He married in W. Woodstock, Dec. 3, 1789, Anna Wight. (The name is Nancy on the Wight records.) She was born in Belling• NIWNN1'/l fl ENERA '/'JON, ham, Mass., June 28, 1772, and she died in Memphis, Tenn., April I 2, 1859, She wa~ a daug-htcr nf Dr. Simeon Wight, who was fifth in descent from Thomas Wight, Puritan immi i.:rnnt of 1635, Children born, the first two in W. Wood stock, Conn., and the rest in Reading, \Vinclsor Co,, Vt.: 172. Si'n1t·t111, b. June 7, 1790; d. Aui.:ust 14, 1856, 173. A/11:rai/, b. Nov. 6, 1791; d. May 17, 1868. 174. llt'lll:J' (Capt.), b. March 14, 1795; d. Oct, 22, 1829. 175, Ft1rdJ•c,• Foster, b. June 26, 1798; cl. Jan, 7, 1886, 176. Silas, b, August 1, 1Ho 1 ; d. in Mobile, Ala.; mar- ried, but childiess. 177. Ril,')1,b. March 25, 1803; d.in Readinr, Vt.,Sept. 22, 1804, 178, Nancy, b. Sept. 13, 1807; d. Sept. 7, 1842. 100. SILAS BOWEN, M. D., son of Deacon Henry (66), was born in W. Woodstock, Conn., Sept. 6, 1774, and he died in Nebraska City, Nebr., Sept. 16, 1857, He married in Reading, Vt., Sept, 11, 1803, !'oily Chandler, who was born in Alstead, N. 1-1., Nov. 25, 1786, and died in Clarendon, Vt., April 9, 1853. She was a daughter of Jonathan Chandler, formerly of Aiste,, I, N. H., and after wards of Potsdam, N. Y. Children born in Reading, Vt.: 179. f.t1111sa, b. April I 6, I 805 ; cl. Dec. 14, 1886, 180. f.1•d1i1, b. Dec. 6, 1806; cl. Dec. 20, 1806. 181. /{t/a,J,, b. Nov 5, 1808; d. Oct. 26, 1883. 182. Cornelia, b. Oct. 10, 1810; cl. August 2(,, 1844, 183. Jltfarccl/11s, b. March 22, 1812; d. May 16, 1848, 184. Marcia, b. Dec. 17, 18 14. 185, A11rcl1i1s, b. Jan. 30, 1817. 186, LucJ• Nortlt, b. Feb. 5, 1820. 101. DIJAH BOWEN, son of Deacon Henry Bowen (66), was born in W. Woodstock, Conn., May 27, 1777, and he died in Needham, Mass., May 2, 1852. He was married in Charlestown, Mass .. Oct. 23, 1803, to Elizabeth Flint, who was born in Hillsborough, N. H., April 21, 1782, and died OENBAL00/0.IT, /JA'/'.I in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 15, 18(13. She wa~ a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Bradfo1 d Flint. Children horn, the first five in Charlestown, the rest in Boston, Mass,: 187. l!t-111:v, b, Mai•25, 1805; cl.Oct. 13, 1805. I 88. fk11ry, Ii. Feh. 9, I 806 ; cl, I 826, 189, Clt11rl,·s, b. Nov, 24, 1807; d. Nov,, 1845. 190, .l/ari11, b, Feb. 24, 1809; cl. in Camhridi-:e, Mass., April 1, 1876, 191. Fra11c1:1·, b, Sept. 8, 1811; d. Jan. 21, 1890, 192. William Flint, b. March 10, 1814; d. 1849. 193. Gt'()l:s:,· /11·111:; 1, b. June 12, 181(1; livin(.{ in Valpa raiso, Chili. 194,. Jol111 /,1111gl,:v, b, Oct. 1 1, 1818 ; cl, 1848. 195. Cmvlti1e A11.s:11sla, b. June 10, 1825. 109, ELISHA BOWEN, son of Dear.on I lenry (66), was born in W. Wooclstock, Conn., Feb, JO, 1779, and he died in Weathersfield, Vt., June 8, I 853, He married in South Wilbraham, Mass., Oct. 20, 1806, Fanny Chandler Morris, who was born there April 27, 1787; daughter of Darius and Rebecca (Chandler) Morris, She died in Ascutney ville, Vt., Nov. 23, 1863. (Darius Morris was son of Isaac. Morris, of \Voodstock, Conn., son of Lieut. Edward, son of Deacon Edward Morris, husband of Elizabeth Bowen, daughter of Lieut. Henry Bowen.) Children born in Read ing, Vt., except Fanny C., who was born in South \,Vilbra ham, Mass.: 196, Lydia Ftrwlcr, b. Nov. 17, 1807; d. Dec, 188!w 197. Famp1 C/,a1111/cr, h. Jan. 21, 1810,cl-,- t-r:" ':\ tr f \ 198, /Janus Morns, b. March 28, 1812; d. Sept. 21, 1863, I 99, /lc11ry S.1•l11cs/cr, b, Dec. 1, 181 4. 200. Otis Erastus, b. Sept. 30, I 8 17; d, March 14, 1893. 201. h1isl1a Cl11111d/cr, b. April 22, 1820. 202. Hami·t Sophia, b. July 3, 1823, 103, DEACON HENRY BOWEN (Baptist), son of Dea Henry (66) (Congregationalist), was born in W. Woodstock, 811'1'11',V'/'ll OENE/1.-I TTON. Conn., Oct. 10, 1780, and he died in Middlefield, N. Y., Feb, 25, 1849, He married in Cheshire, Mass,,about 1806, Cynthia Wood, born April 21, 1783; daughter of Daniel and Rebecca (Ingalls) Wood. She died in Middlefield, July 15, 186.f (a Universalist). Children born in Middlefield, N. Y.: :?03. · flmr_1•, b. August 18, 1807; d. Oct. 1 I, I 889. 204, Po/(1•, b, Sept 29, 1808; d. Dec. 25, 1887. 205. 1Ja111d /VtJtJd, b. March 1, 1810; d, Feb. 18, 1876. 206. L,,,; f/0111cr, b. Sept. 5, 18 I I. 207. l01•dia, b. April 6, 181 3. 208, h.i11di11e, b. Sept. 28, 1815; d. Nov. 5, 1873. 209. l.11rti-11 !ltJ11afarl, b, August 8, 1817; d, Oct. 27, 1863. 210. ,',i'/as TtJw11er, b. Nov. 25, 1819. 21 t. 1llt1rdt1, b, Sept. 21, 1823. 212. l.11dt1, b. Sept. 21, 1823; d. March 21, 1888, 213. john II i'//ia111s, b. Au~ust 29, I 1125. 214. Jane A111dia, b. March 11, 1828. 104. General DANIEL BOWEN, son of Deacon Henry (66), was born in W. Womlstock, Conn., July 20, 1783, and he died in Weathersfield, Vt., Sept. I 3, I 859. He married in Farmington, Conn., Feb, 8, 1809, Lucy North, born there Jan. 12, I 785 ; daughter of Samuel and Lucy (Dem ing) North. She died in Weathersfield, Vt., Jan. 31, 1817. Children born in Weathersfield, Vt.: 215. hr/I'll, b. Dec. 7, 181 I; d. at home Jan. 4 1 1831. 216. Citlll'II, b. August 10, 1816; d, at the old home stead Sept. 24, I 848. Gen. Daniel Bowen married (2nd) in Farmington, Conn., August 11, 1818, Sylvia North, sister of Lucy. She was born Jan. 2, 1787, and she died in Weathersfield, Vt., Sept. 8, 1868, at the house of Henry S. Bowen, in Ascutncyville. All lie hurit.:d beside the Connecticut River at the " Bow." 10&. LYDIA BOWEN, daughter of Deacon Henry (66), was born in W. Woodstock, Conn., April 4, 1787, and she died in Eastford, Conn., Jan. 23, 1814. She married in ONNEAWI/IC.-11, /JA7'A W. Woodstock, :\larch 4, 1813, Charles Samson, who wa11 born in Eastford, April, 1789, and who died there hefore I 83 I. He was a son of Aaron and Laner Samson (probably of Spanish origin). Only child horn in Eastford, Conn.: 217. ✓ 11plw11st1 /Jd11ci11s, b. Dec. 10, 1813; d. in Saug erties, N. Y., Dec. 13, 1841. Unmarried. 108. HANNAH BOWEN, daughter of Deacon Henry (6(1), was born in 'IN. \Vomlstock, Conn., Jan. 21, 1793, and she died in Kingston, N. Y., Feb, 9, 1871. She married in W. \,Voodstock, Conn., Jan. 8, 1815. Charles Samson (the above named). Children born in Eastford, Conn.: 218. Hm,,, A/111a11.::t1, b. April 4, 1818; d. Feb. 9, 1869. 219. jt1!i11 Howm, b. April :m, 1820; d. March 20, 1824. Hannah Bowen (the above named} married (2nd) in Woodstock, Conn., May 12, 1831, Elkanah Penniman (his 2nd marriage). He was born in Uxbridge, Mass., Jan. 14, 1782, and he died in Woodstock, August 31 1849. He was a son of Jesst: and Lois (Woods) Penniman. Only child born in Woodstock: 220 . .'·,a11111d, h. June 10, 1833. 10'1'. JOHN BOWEN, son of Deacon Henry (66), was born in Woodstock, Conn., Nov. 28, I 795, and he died in Fredo nia, Ala., May 4, I 856. He 'married in Hillsborough, Ga., Sept. 14, 182fi, Eleanor Coleman Smart, born in Mecklen burg county, N. C., about 1800. Records burned with father's house. She dice\ in Fredonia, Ala., Dec. 12, I 862. Two sons born in Fredonia: .221. jt1l111 litt!t·ben')', b. Dec. 1, 1827. 222. /,ucius Fowkr,b. Nov. 15, 1832; cl.Jan, 10, 1840. He was killed by the falling of a dead tree in Fredonia. 108. SAMUEL BOWEN, M. D., son of Deacon Henry (66), was born in W. Woodstock, Conn., Dec. I 1, 1797, and 8/~ VB.V'l'll UlffN /!l/1,t 1'/0N, 49 he died in Thompson, Conn., May 20, 1852. He married in Eastford, Conn,, Mary Sumner, born there in I 803. She died in Thompson, August 12, 1850, She was the only daughter of John Neuman Sumner, Childre11 born in Thompson, Conn,: 223. 1J[ar11 Hdm-Mrs. S. R, Harlow. 224. Sal'til1Ja11c, d. "March 11, 1848, aged 16 years." 109. Dr. ELISHA HOWEN, snn bf Daniel (67), was born in Reading, Vt., Jan. 2, 1791, and he died at his daughter's (Mrs. Achilles, 233), near Rochester, N. Y., April 6, 1863. He married ( 1st) June 3,1817, Mehetable Bryant, a uaughter of his mother's sister. She " was born in \,Vardsboro, Vt.," Feb, 4, 1789. " Her sister, Olive Bryant, married a Rob bins, and is the mother of SamantlM Robbi.ts, the mission ary, and of Prof. Robbins." (From Diann (Gilbert) Sykes.) Mehetnble died childless, in Palmyra, N. Y., April 24, 1820. Dr. Elisha married (2nd) Feb. 19, 182 I, Adeline Raw son, born in Phelps, N. Y., August 7, 1790, and she died in Yates, N. Y., March 29, 1830. Children born in Yates, N. Y.: 225. James Cok111a11, b. May 1, 1822; ti. Oct. 12, 1824. 226. C/lntdia Jfdtda/,/1•, b. Oct. 7, 1823; d. Oct. 7, 1824. 227. l./ltn'.m A/aria, b. Jan. 24, 1825; d. in Shasta, Cal., July 21, 1855. She married James Chappell, of Hartwick, N. Y. No children. 228. Frandr 1Va_.-la11d, b. July 15, 1826. 229. Sa11111d Cla..-!,so11, b. March 27, 1828. 230. Addi11t' Cltarl"tk, b. March 9, 1830. Unmarried. Teacher in Preparatory Department, Howard University, Washington, D. C. Dr. Elisha married (3rd) August 2, 1830, in Medina, N. Y., Mary Ann Clark, who was born in Haddam, Conn., 50 (IBNE.-IL0(IJ0.11, /JA TA Nov. 7, 1802, She died in Yates, July 12, 1860. Chil dren born in Yates, Orleans county, N. Y.: 231. C/111rks Clar/..•, b. Sept. 8, 1831. 232. Edgar/11111,·s, b, Oct, 25, 18,p. 233. S11.1'1111 /ili.~a/J,'/11, b. May 4, 18]5. 234. Tlicodvr,· Di,•1):/11, b. July w, 1837; ti. Feb. 27, 1880. 235. Comdia Sopl1it1, b. July 7, 1840. 236. 11Iary A11g11slt1, b. Nov. 6, 18.p. 110. DOROTHY BOWEN, daughter of Daniel (67), was born in Reading, Vt., July 30, 1793, and she died in Spring- field, Vt., Sept. 19, 1866. She married, 1823, in Reading-, Vt., Salmon Parker, of Springfield, Vt., born there 1787. He died there Feb. 25, 1849. He was a son of Ezra and Jemima (Johnson) Parker. Children born in Springfield, Vt.: 237. Olhoc Brya11I, b. July 12, 1824; d. in Springfield, Dec. 14, 1863. 238. S11st111 Ellc11, b, August 22, 1826; d. in Charles town, N. H., August 17, 1848, 239. l>a11icl Bowen, b. June 3, I 828. 240. lmdse 1rlc/1cta/Jlc, b. Sept. 15, 1832. 112. Deacon SILAS BOWEN, son of Daniel (67), was born in Reading, Vt., Nov. 8, 1797, and he died in Weath ersfield, Vt., March 4, 1884. He married in W. Windsor, Vt., Jan. 1, 1828, Rowena Banister, born there Sept. 19, 1801; died in Weathersfield, Vt., Dec. 25, 1881. She was the youngest daughter of Silas and Thankful (Ely) Banis ter. Her mother wa~ a daughter of Joel Ely, a Vermont pioneer from Springfield, Mass., and fifth in descent from Nathaniel Ely, a Puritan immigrant of 1635, a prominent first settler of Springfield, Mass. Between Nathaniel and Joel there were three Samuels, all of Springfield. Silas Banister's mother, Mercy (Wheeler), lived to the middle of SE l'EN'l'lf OENERA 1'ION. her one hundred and first year. Children born in Read ing, Vt.: 241. .'>i1sn11, h. Jan. 14, 1829. 2.,12. D11111d, b. Feb. 4, 183 1. 243. Ado111iw11 j11d.1·011, b. August 7, 1834. 244. ja111,·.1· Col,·1111111, b. Feb. 5, 1 8.38. 245. Jlfamii, b. May 21, 1840. Unmarried. North Springfield, Vt. 246. l.!.i111{1 1, b. May 14, 1842 ; d. Sept. 20, 1867. 113. SUSANNA BOWEN, daughter of Daniel Bowen (67), was born in Reading, Vt., Sept. 1, 1799, and she died in Bir mingham, Mich., at the house of her daughter, May 10, 1879. She married in Reading, Vt., Sept. 13, 1826, James Gibson Johnson, born in Reading, Vt., Sept. 29, I 799; died in Royal Oak, Mich., April 16, 1878,son of Rev.Jeremiah and Thomasin ( Blanchard) Johnson. Children born in Royal Oak, Mich.; 247. Sa111a11tha Elk11, b. Sept. 2, 1827. 248. James Bowm, b. Oct. 14, 1830. 249. S11sa11 .Md1d11b/e, b. Oct, 31, 1832; d. April 25, 1852. 250. jolt11 RtHI, b. June 21, 1835. 251. joscplt Bt'l/s011, b. Sept. 28, 1837. 252. j,w111c Fktd1cr, b. Dec. 3, 1840. 114. HULDAH CHENEY, daughter of Priscilla (Bowen) (68), was born in Baltimore, Windsor county, Vt., about 1779. She married there Benjamin Page. Childrc·n born in Baltimore, Vt.: 253. l.orill(la, b. about 1802. She married Hervey Bigelow of Weathersfield, Vt. Both died in Rutland, Wis. 254. Asa, lived and died in Brooklyn, N. Y. 255. Ci1roliitt', b. Jan. 31, 1806 256. Hli::a (Mrs. Stoughton), d. in Minneapolis. 257. l/11/dah, 258. Parker, ti. in Stoughton, Wis. GENEALOOJ0,11, DATA 259, l.11ci11s, lives in Edgerton, Wis, 260. E11101J• (Rev,) d, in Minneapolis. 11&. LOTI-IROI' CHENEY, son of Priscilla (Bowen) Che ney (68), was born in Baltimore, Vt., about 1781. If e died in Stoughton, \Vis., Jan., 1881, "aged 99 years, 6 months, 3 days." He married in N. Springfield, Vt., Phwbe Mar tin, Children born in N. Springfield, Vt.: 261. NmtCJ', b. May 23, 1826; d. August 29, 1846. 262 . .IIIary, b, April 5, 1830; d. Dec. 5, 1849. Lothrop Cheney married (:md), in W1sconsi11, "the widow Pollard," formerly of Weathersfield, Vt. 117. DOROTHY CHENEY, daughter of Priscilla (Bowen) (68), married Jesse Clark, of Windsor county, Vt. Chil dren: 263. Waldo, 264. ln•i11l{, 265. /Jai;,s, Our Priscilla died at the home of her g-randson, Irving Clark, in Weathersfield, near N. Springfield, where, some forty years later, Deacon Silas and Rowena Bowen died. 119. THEODOSIA CI-IENEY,daughtcr of Priscilla( Howen) (68), married Capt, Foster Henry, of Weathersfield, Vt. Children born there: 266. EmilJ,, 267. Hirt'II, of Perkinsville, Vt. 268. Sy/1 1,.ster, 269. Fost,·r, (Rev.) 270 Rosto. 120. ROXY CHENEY, daughter of Priscilla (Howen) (68), married Gideon Chapin. Children born in Windsor coun ty, Vt.: 8/l'l'/\'N1'/f l//1NRIU 'l'lO.V. 27 I, J/,11:,• ,/1111, 272. R.0.1:i•-l\lrs. Naham l'arker. 122. HANNAH Cl I ENE\', daughter of Priscilla (Boll'en) (68), nu11-ricd Thomas Prentis. Children burn in Windsor county, Vt.: 27 3 . ./t1st'f'l1 l i1111s/t1r!.-, 274. Waldo 01,·11i:1•, 275 . .f111111·s w,,(li·, 276. 11/a,y 1£1/m, 277, l.11o'a, 278, R.t1.IJ', 279. S11sa11, 280. /t111l', 2 8 1. A 1111 .f11d.1·1111. 123. LUCIUS 1-1. CHENEY, son of Priscilla (Bowen) (68), was born in Baltimore, Vt., April 21, 1800, and he died in Berlin, 0., Sept, 19, 1846. I le married in N. Springfield, Vt., Oct. 27, 1824, Lorenda Griswold, who was born and who died there. Child born in N. Springfield, Vt.: 282. Ri11di/l11, b. Jan. 24, 1829. 132. S< Jl'HRONIA GILBERT, daughter of Jerusha(Bowen) (72), was born in Cavendish, Vt., Oct. 20, I 799, and she died in Dorset, Vt., June 23, 1861. She married Jan. I I, 1820, Alfred Field, born in Dorset, Vt., March 15, I 787; died in Jamaica Plain, Mass., August 17, 1863; son of Amos and Loriah (Baldwin) Field. Children born in Dorset, Vt.: 283. Fml,ric, b. Oct 12, 1821 ; died in San Jose, Cal., Nov. 17, 1886. 284 . .fa11et/1', b. Sept. 19, 1823. '.!85. Cl1t1rks, b. Dec. 1, 1825; cl. in Dorset, July 8, 1886. 286. El/,•11, b. May 15, 1828; "now in Iowa with her sister Janette." 54 ONNHAl,OOIG.11, JJ,l 'l'A 133, CLORINDA GILBERT, daughter of Jerusha (Bowen) Gilbert (72), was born in Cavendish, Vt., Sept. 7, 1801; died in Plainfield, Ill., Jan. 28, 1864, She married May 7, 1826, Asahel Chilson, of Weathcrficld, Vt. Children born in Weathersfiekl, Vt.: 287. M11rJ 1, b. March, 1827; d. in Dorset, Vt., May, 1844. 288. lllarcdln, b. April 15, 1829. 289. Ruslt, b. August, f 83 I. 290. C11rolii1t·, b. Sept., I 833. 13"1, DIANA GILBERT, daughter of Jerusha (Bowen) (72), was born in Cavendish, Vt., July 11, 1809. She married Oct. 19, 1831, Israel Newton Sykes, who was born in Dor set, Vt., Oct. 20, 1805; son of Israel and Anne (Slwldon) Sykes. Children born in Dorset, Vt.: 291. Gertrude, b. Nov. 7, 1832. Shem. Nov. 9, 1858, Rev. Quincy Blakely, of Paulet, Vt., who cl. in Wakefield, N. H., Feb. 25, 1892. 292. Gilbert Montier, b. Nov. 20, 1834. He m. July 12, I 859, L. R. Greenleaf, of Massachusetts. 293. As,-ple K1i·k, b. Oct. 2, 1836. 294. C11tltari11t•, b. July 21, 1840; cl. August, 1840. 295. Artltur, b. Nov. 13, 1841; d. April, 1842. 296. Hmry1, b. March 18, 1844. 297 . .-l11re/i11s, b. Dec. 12, 1847. He m. in Belvidere, Ill., Ella Avery, who d. in Dorset, May 25, 1874. Aurelius married (2nd) June 2, 1876, Laura Harwood, of E. Dorset, Vt. 138, OLIVER CHENEY GILBERT, son of Jerusha (Bowen) (72), was born in Cavendish, Vt., March 8, 1802, and he died in Dorset, Vt., Sept. 6, 1872. He married in Dorset, July 25, 1839, Harriet Elizabeth Holley, who was born there Nov. 2, 18 14 ; daughter of Justus and Elizabeth 8/Wfl'NTJI OENERAT/ON, 55 (Field) Holley, Children born in Cavendish, Vt.: 298. A1~1;di11t' 1£/,'.:;11/Jd/1, b. Jan. 4, 1842; m. /\, K. Sykes (293). 299. Cltarl,·s Bm,•,·11, b. /\pril 8, 1844. 300. Willi11111 Jad:st111, b. Jan. 28, 1846. Hem. Dec. 24, 1874, Fanny H. Douglass, of Niles, Mich, I le gradu ated at Middlebury College in 1869. I-le is a lawyer in Niles, Mich. 301. He111~v. b. Feb. 5, 1848; d. AUJ::USt 18, 1860. 302. Frl'll1n'c/.: Field, b. Jan. 25, 1851. 303. Harrie•/ E/1'.~·a, b. Jan. 15, 1853, 1 304. Gtm;s:l' 1/11//,:1 , b. Nov. 4, I 854. 305. l•i·a11/,:, b. Feb, 25, 1856; d. in Dorset, August 19 1 18fo. 306. Silas Btn,1t'll, b. Sept. 18, 1858; cl. Feb. 18, 186o. 139. GEORGE BOWEN, son of William (79), was born in Woodstock, Conn., June 8, 1789 1 and he died there Jan. 6, 1846. He married Oct. 13, 1812, Lydia Walcott Eaton, who was born in Dudley, Mass., July 14, 1793; daughter of John Elliot and Elizabeth (Davis) Eaton. She died in Woodstock, Conn., Oct. 30, 1864. Children born in Wood stock, Conn.: 307. Htlll')' Clta11d!t-r, b, Sept. I I, I 8 1 3. 308. Edward Eaton, b. Sept, 20, 1815; d. March 14 1 1887, 309. Mana, b. Oct. 21, 1817; cl. Feb. 25, 1850. She m. Oct. 14, 1835, Rev. Erastus Dickinson, born April 1, I 807 ; died Sept. 4, I 888. 310. ✓ 1111e/ia A/Im, b. May 11 1822; cl. in Chicago, Mar 10, I 88 I. 141. MATTHEW BOWEN, son of William (79), was born in Woodstock, Conn., Jan. 28 1 1794, and he died ,Dec. 11, 1868. He married in W. Woodstock, Conn., Dec. 10, 1817, Laura Williams, born there Feb. 20, 1797; daughter of An drew and Sally (Skinner) Williams. She died in Wood stock, Feb. 10, 1858. Children born in Woodstock: 56 OBNRA l,OfUCA/, JJA 'l'A 3 I I. Jl,{111:1• 1Villia111s, h. May 30, I 8 I 9, d. August 3 I, 1825. 31 .::?. ll,m1i-l F01,•l,·r, b April 18, 1821. ., I 3_. .·/1111dft• l.11rrt'l1i1, h. Feb. 3, I 824. ] q. limib• J1111c, h. Feb. 5, I 8:i6; d., I 890. .,15. ✓ l11dnw Williams, b. April .::?J, 18:i9; d.Sepl. 11, 1882. 144. PRENTICE PROUTY BOWEN, son of Charles Bowen (90), was born in Charlestown, N. H., April 7, 1806, and he died in Haverhill, N. II., April 17, 1877. lie mar ried April 7, 1842, Eliza Jane Putnam, born Aui-:ust I, 1816. He died Dec. I 8, 1886. One child: 316. J1111rllt·, h. Feb. 8, 1843; m. Asa \V. Harriman. 145. GILMAN J. BOWEN, sun of Charles (oo), was born in Charlestown, N. 1-1., Oct. 10, 1810, and he died Feb. 22, 1892. He married l'arthena l'utnam, born Oct. 3, 1823. Children: 317. Sarai,!,, b. Feb. 23, 1843; 111, Charles Willard. 318. E/i:;11J., b. Dec. 7, 1848; 111. Wm. H. Upham. 319. Grorgc G., b. Feb. 10, 1853. 146, FANNY BELINDA HOWEN, daughter of Charles (90), was born in Charlestown, N. H., May 10, 1820. She resides in Claremont, N. H. She married Jan. 5, 1838, Simeon Whipple \\'alker, born Dec. 1, 1814; died March, I 875. A painter and grainer, Their child: 320. Horace Eaton, b. in Claremont, N. 1-1., Aug-ust 9, 1852. Mrs. Fanny (Bowen) Walker married, in 1877, Mr. Al vin Child, who died in 1891. 14'1'. GEORGE P. BOWEN, son of Charles (90), was born / 162, MARTHA L. BOWEN, daughter of Charles (93), was born in Northfield, Mass., Nov. 14, 1820. She mar ried a Mr. Rice, a lawyer 111 Wisconsin. At least one child: 1 323. lll'/11') , 163, NANCY BOWEN, daughter of I.evi (97), was born in l lomer, N. Y., March 1, 1794, and she dkd in Otisco, N. \'., Feb. 1, 1836. She married in l[omer,Joel Danforth, nf Otisco, N. Y., who was born April 4, I 789, and who died August 7, 1855. Children, born in Otisco, N. Y.: 324. JII,11:1• A1111, b. July 21, 1817; d. in Otisco, Jan. 16, 1853. She marrie I Sept. 26, I 837, James Goodwin Bost wick, who was born in Otisco, Nov. 27, 1814, and died in F.iirport, N. Y., May 1, 1854. No children. 0 325. /,t''i'/ Bowt'II, b. May 13, 1820; cl. in Augusta, Mich., June I, 1874. 326. Nall()', b. Dec. 15, 1822; d. in Syracuse, N. Y., March I, 1892. 327. Jod /[a/scJ 1, b. August 28, 1828. f/NN Kl l,Ofl/U.11, /l,l '/'.I 164, I Ri\ II< >WEN, s11n of Levi (q7), was h11rn in I lomer, N. \'., ,\ugust <,, 17rJ5, and he dit-d there Jan. ,lll, I H<\1. I le married i11 I 1111111:r, \Vaty Wadsworth, h11rn there i\pril 15, 17'.,J.1, wherL', als11, she died i\ugust 16, 1H:!li. Children, born iu I lomer, N. \'.: .PH, Mah•i111'a, Ii. July 25, 1H:ll . .P9· G1'(11:(1' II'. (Esq.). h. Nev. l.l, IH:?4. Ira Bowen 111arried (:?ml) Lois l litchc11ck, of I lomer, where she was born i\ugust 15, 1Ho:?, and where she died May 24, 11!87. She was a daughter of Samuel B. nnd i\;rnl,a H. (Blashfield) Hitchcock, from Brimfield, Mass. Children, horn in HomL·r: 330. A11drc1,•, b. March 4, 1829. 3.11, I V,1~1 1 Jane, b. Dec. 9, 1830; d., 18,p. 332. /Jo/(1 1 A1111, b. March 1(1, 1832; d. Feh. 22, 1857, 333. /,,.1•i hih.•11rds, h. August 12, 1834; d. June 7, 1876. 334. lri•i11g 1l/11diso11, b. Oct. 20, 1836; d. Nov., 1841. 335. 1'iw1ccs H, b.June 15, 18.1H; cl. Nov. 27, 1848. 336. lri•i11K Ndso11, b. July 7, I 842; d. in Lockport, N, Y., May 1, 1879. I Ir~ married at Clifton Springs, N. Y., Au gust 6, 1H68, Harriet Thompson. No children, 337. /11/,11 Wil/11rd, b. June 10, 1844. 165. DOLLY BOWEN, daui,:-htcr of Levi (97), was born in Homer, N. Y., Sept. 19, 1797, and died in Dubuque, Ia., Feb. 11, 1847. She married Chauncy Swan. Children, horn in Dubuque, Ia.: 338. l.orm::;o, 339. Silas, 340. Charks, 341. Caro/111c, 342. C!,11111/CJ•, 343. Corddia. 16'7. OREN BOWEN, son of Levi (97), was born in Ho mer, N. Y., Nov. 11, 1799, allll he died there Oct. 28, I 872, /Wi/17'/I f//1'.\'IW,l 'l'l<>N. lie married in llomer, !\larch 111, 1821, l'olly Johnson. Children, horn in I lomer, N, Y.: 344, Ht'lll:1• l.t';•i, h. July 25, 1822. 345. J/t11J' l.m•,·1111,1, b, Nol'. 1, I 824; d. March I, 18(\1. She married May 1,i, 1857, Timothy Clark Smith, mer chant, Lake c;eneva, \Vis. No children, 346. C11rolti1t', b. Dec. 1826; d., 1827. 347. Clu1rks li'm.1·11111.I', b. Jan. 11, 1828; lost in Califor nia abnut 1850. Oren Bowen married (21Hl) i11 Homer, Feb. 14, 1831, Sally I I ubhanl, born in I lomt;r. Jan. 30, 180 I ; died in Lock port, N. Y., at the house of J1illg-e Levi Bowen, Jan ..i, I 887. She was a daughter of Major John and Sally (Hall) Hub bard. Major Hubbard came to Homer from Brimfield, l\lass,, in 1795, The fine old mansion where Sally (Hub bard) Bowen was reared is still standing, one mile from the village. Children, born in Homer, N, Y.: 348. Sarah ,·/111ur, b. May 1, I 8.B; married in Homer, J\ugust 24, I 858, Charles Stone Richardson, M. D., gradu ate nf Albany Medical Colleg-e, 1856; died in Homer, March I, 1862, 349. fldm h.111111,1, h. May 19, 1840. She married July :?6, 1869, Timothy Clark Smith CHS), who died Dec. 25, 1888. Mo children, 168. 11,\RRIET BOWEN, daug-htcr of Levi (97), ll'llS horn in Homl'r, N, Y., /\11g11st 16, 1802. and died in llomer; ;\1arch 29, 1882. She married in I fomer, Sept. 5, 18,p, Rl.'V, Liberty ,\Ionw Barrows (Episcopal), horn May 12, 1800, near Boston, Mass.; died in I lomer, March 22, I 882. Children: 350, //11rrit'I ,·/111111, b. in Sherburne, N. Y., /\ug-ust 10, 1833 . • ,.,1 A,,.,(,- /SO.S 35 I. /J1·11.1·11111.1· Hd1cr, b. in Sherburne, N, Y., June 11 1 1837; cl. June 11, 1840. 352. l,1•dia Addt11dc, b. in Norwich, N. Y .. March 4, 1R.p.'I 353. j,111,· Hli-::,1/,d/1, b. in Sherburne, N. Y .. July 26 1844. d,ed })u:,z.:r--,.,D., 1/11'.Vl\'M, (llaylcy) died in New \'11rk city Aui-:11sl ::!q, 1849. Chil dren, lrnrn in B11ston: 360. N111m• .ll,n1IJ//l'I', b. Ike. ::!5, 181.~. 3(11. /11111,:1,1', • . . 36;?, Si1111'l'l1, 363. Jl/ari11, /\II threi, died in infancy, .1(14. A/11:,:-.u'/, b, ( >ct. <), I 820: d, SL'pt. 7' I 821, Simeon Bowen mari i, cl (::!11<1) 111 Meadville, l'enn., Oct., 18::?(1, l{cbecca, claui-:hter 11( Joseph a11d Elizabeth Shuster, who died <>ct. 1,l, 18H9. Children, horn in Meadville: 3(15, A1~i;-di11,· lili·:.11/Jd/1, b. Jnly 24, 1827. 366. / 1i•n(J'<"1' F,,.1·kr, h. I kc. ::!,J, 18,p: d. April 28, 188<), 173. AIIIG/\IL BOWEN, d:11,ghter 11f Isaac (118), was born in W. Woodstock, Conn., Nov. 6, 1791,and died in Rush fc,rcl, N. Y., May 17, 18(,8. She married in Townsend, Mass., (probably) Jan. 10, I 808, James Gordon, who was born in Mason, N. I I., Oct. 30, 1783, and who dkd in Rushford, N. Y., Oct. 24, 18(,8. Children, born in Rnshford, N. Y.: 367. N11111J 1 /i,,,,,m, h. Sept. 19, 1811; died in Rush ford, July I I, I 848. 368. ,//011.'.:o, Ii. April 17, 1H13; d. in Rushford, August ::!_l, 1817. 369. 1l/11ria, Ii. Nov, ::! I, I 8 q. 370. Nil1)', h. i\fay 5, 1H17; d, April 21, 1840 . .17 I. F1m(1•ff /•i1skr, h. Fd1. :q, 181 401. A d,111,1:l1/cr, b. and d. <>ct. ~1, I 834. 402, N11t/1a111d lloM'II, b. Dec. 23, 1836; cl. Jan. 17, 18..JO . •103. l.11c_1•, b. Sept. 23, 18.p. 183. MARCELLUS B< >WEN, 1\1.1>., s11n 11f llr. Silas{ 100), was born in Reading-, Vt., March 22, 1812, and he died in South Boston, i\1ass., May I 6, I 848, He married in Sha ron, Vt. i\pril. 1837, Mary Sophia l),rna, born in Sharon, daughter of Ge11rge Ilana. Children, born in S1111th 11,·s ton, Mass.: 404, il/11r,·d/11s, h. April 4, 1838. 405. Edwin /1111111dl, b, Nov. 10, 18 ..p. 406. Addi11c Woodb111J•, d. April :m, 184r,; agl·d r, months. 407. G1•01;1;c H. (,'ib/,011s, b, Jan. 8, I 849. 184. MARCIA BOWEN, daughter of Dr. Silas (wo), was born in Rending, Vt., Dec. 17, 1814, and she married in Clarendon, Vt., May 1, 1839, William Daniel Marsh, who was born in Clarendon, July 17, 1809, and died there July ll'lllll'l'lf f / /•.'N J,.'J/,1 '/'UJ.V. ::? I, I 878. I le was a son nf I >aniel and Mnry ( White) Marsh. N11 children. l\larcia ( llow,·11) l\larsh 111arricd in l{nlland, Vt., Oct. .l. 1889, Frl'1i<-ric 1\11g11st11s F11llcr, 111,rn in l{11Lla11d, Vt., !\lay .q, I 8 1.l• /\ddrcss: Ja111est11w11, N. Y. 18&. 1\UREI.IUS HOWEN, M. D. (Suq.~eon <;enernl of the Sons of the American Revoluti11n), sou llf I Jr, Silas (100), was born in Reading, Vt., Jan. 30, 1817. lie 111ar ried in Windsor, Vt., April 10, 1846, Arabella Forbes, born there April 18, I 8 I Ii, youngest daughter of Gen, Abner Forbes. She died in Nebraska City, Oct. ::?8, 1886. Dr. Aurelius is still ( 1893) in the active practice of hi~ p'rofc~ silln in Nl'hraska. Children born, the sons in \,Vindsor, Vt., the daughter in Ulster county, N. Y.: 408. 11/mrd/11s, b. Dec. ·.q, 1846, died in Western, Neb., June 17, 1876. 409 . .-lb11t'r Forb,-s, b. July 4, 1H48. 410. Jlm:i• Fra11t'1's, b. March ::?2, 1854, Nebraska City, Neb. 189. CII/\RLES BOWEN, Esquire, merchant and politi cian, son of Dijah (JOI), was burn in Charlestoll'n, Mass., Nov. 24, 1807, and he was drowned in the Mississippi River Nov, 1845. He married in Boston, Mass., Elizabeth Ann Williams, daughter of David \Villia111s, Esq., of Boston. She perished with her husband. Children : 41 r. C,iarl,·s fl1'//l:J', b. in B11ston, Mass., Sept. 5, 1H32; drowned with his parents in November or December, 1845. 412. l•i·1111c,·s .-/11111·, b. in Newton, Mass ,S..,pt. 25, 1836, 111. Oct. 11, 1869, Dr. Edwin M. Kellogg-. 41 3. lllmJ' Williams, born in Zanesville, 0., I kc. 2 5, 1839. 191. Professor FRANCIS BOWEN, LL. D., son of rnjah ( 101 ), was born in Charlestown, Mass., Sept. 11, 18 I 1, and he died in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 21, I 890. He married ll/~.\'N,1/,01//1,',I/, /J.1'/',I Arabella Stewart, daughter 11f Charles Stuart, of l'orbmouth, N, I I. Children, horn in Camhridg,i, Mass,: •I I 4, <'l1t1rks ,\'t11t1rl, .p 5. Maria, .11 (,. //dm Ni.:,a/11'1/1, They reside in Cambridge, Mass, 192, WILI.IAM FI.INT BOWEN,son11fl>ijah(101),w11s born in Boston, Mass., March 10, 1814,, and he was killed on the border of Texas and Mexico, about 184!), by Mexi can rubbers. I le married in Boston, where ~he was born, May 24, I 8 I 6, Rebecca Copeland, one of the eleven sisters whose parents came from England. She is living in Cali fornia, Children, born in Znnesville, 0,, except the last: 417, r;,.org,·, b. in 1837; d. in infancy, 418. 1Villia111, b, in 1838; cl, in 1839. 419. Clara, b, Feb. 183!); (unmarried), 420, .-Ida, b, in 1840. 421. Caro/i111· ,r/11g11st11, b. in Galveston, Texas, in 1846. 198, GEORGE HENRY BOWEN, merchant (retired), in Valparaiso, Chili, son of Dijah ( 101 ), was born in Boston, Mass.,June 12, 1816, I-le married a Chilian lady, Eulogia Go11i, daughter of his former employer, his business part ner. No children. 194, JOHN LANGLEY BOWEN, son of Dijah (101), was born in Hoston, Mass., Oct. 1 1, 1818, and he died in Zanes ville, 0,, in 1848, iron manufacturer. He married in Zanes ville, 0., about 1845, Anne Van Buren, who died in 1H57. One daughter horn near Zanesville, O.: 422. K11lc ,,/11,1[11s/11, b., 1846; d., I 876. She married, I 870, Dr. Melville Fowle, of Haverhill, Mass., who died in 1875. 195. CAROLINE AUGUSTA BOWEN, daughter of Di jah (101), was born in Boston, Mass., June 10, 1825. She N/111/'/'II 1mNIW.t 1'ION, nHll'l'ied In Cambrldg-e, Mass,, Aui.:ust ,l, I 854, William F. Kent, born In I >nrsel, Vt,; died in St. Louis, Mo .. , April 15, 1856, No children. Mrs. Kent ( l Vt., March 28, I 812, and he died In \Venthcrsfield, Sept. 21, 1863, lit- married in Springfield, Vt., March 10, 1836, Lorendn l'icrce, who was horn there March I 11, I 810; daughter nf Nathaniel and Anna ( Davis) l'lcrce. She is living in \Vinds11r, Vt. Children horn in Weathersfield, Vt,: 427. Olis ,1/,irn'.I', b. Feb. 10, 1837; d. Sept.9, 1863, 428. Cnn1/i11,· L,,r,·11d,1, h. Jan. 24, 1839: d. in Wind sor, Vt., April 5, 1870; m. C. A. Covell, of Windsor. No children, 429, /0/111 l'icrt't', b, Oct. 2, 1840; d. in Frederick City, Md., Sept. 13, 1861 (a Union soldier). 430. .i/1111i,· Lo111s,1, b. April 17, 1850; d. July 28, 1866. 199. HENRY SYLVESTER BOWEN,son ofElishn (102), wns born in Reading, Vt., Dec. 11 18141 produce dealer, re tired, resides in Ascutneyville, Vt. I le married in Boston, Nov. 11, 1841, Caroline l'ratt, born there April 16, 1821. She died in Ascutneyville, March 5, 1883. She was a daug-htcr of Eleazer l'ratt (ship builder, born in Cohasset, Mass., 1785; died in Boston, August 21, 1849),and Mary (Jones) Pratt, born in Concord, Mass., I 784; died in Bos ton, 1859, Children: 431. Hlca.~l'l'l'r,1tt,h. April 25, 18.+4• 432. 1/cm:1' .,./11g11sti11,·, h. June 17, 1850; d. June 18, 1850. 433. lllnri,11111,1 Jo11cs, b. July 19, 185 1. She resides in Ascutneyville, Vt.; m. there, March 28, 1878, Cullen E. Martin, of the same place. No children. 4_w. Caroltitc lsa/,d, b, April 3, 1854; d.April 5, 1854. 435. Carri,· I/elm, b. Nov. 3, 1857, 200. OTIS ERASTUS BOWEN, son of Elisha (102), was born in Reading, Vt.,Sept. 30, 1817; died March 14, 1893, produce merchant in Boston, resided in Needham, Mass. He married in Windsor, Vt., Feb., 1839 (Rev. Wm. Guil ford officiating), Amanda Rcb,:cca Clark, born in Windsor, /•.'Iii If 'I'll f/ l•J,\' NII. I '/'10 .\'. Vt., Clct. 27, 1H1(i; daughter of Ward and Rebecca (!Vlar tln) Clarie A local paper notices our ldnsman's death as fnllowl!: Otis E. Howen died on Tuesday ev1ming, March 14, after a lingering ill1wss. Mr. Howen had been a hard-wurk in(.:', active man, and aho11t a year ago he had /11 ,l{l'lf/'t', and since that time he has been gradually failing. He was pub lic-spirited, and greatly interested in everything that per tained tn the progress of the town. He was one of the first to advocate the introcl11ctio11 of water works into the town, and during the last summer he was active in talking up the introduction of the electric cars into Needham, We ~hall miss his cheerful smile and enthusiastic devotion to all re forms and social enterprises. Children: 436, flmry Cl11rl.·, b, in Reading, Vt., Nov. 16, 1839. 437. Otis Erastus, h. Nov. I 6, I 843; d. Dec. 23, I P.. ~3. 438. ,-/111~11tla !.t1111·dt,·, b. in Hoston, Mass., Oct. 9, 1846. Unmarried. Address: 11 ighlandville, Mass. 439. Otis Erastus, b. in Hoston, July 12, 1850. 201, ELISHA CH1\NDI.ER HOWEN, M. D., son of Eli sha ( 102), was born in Reading, \Vindsor county, Vt., April 22, I 820; resides in Cleveland, (),,retired. I le married in Columbus, (ia., Jan. 18, 18.H, 1\1 rs. Elvira Caroline (Daly) Bevill, h. in Savannah, Ga.; daughter of Daniel and Catha rine ( Bond) Daly, the latt,'I' born in Boston. Children born in Columbus, Ga.: 440. /111rrid S,,;,l11i1, b. August 3, 1845; d. in Albany, (;a., June 17, 1846. 441. Eli1im C11roli11,·, b. May 26, 1847; d. in Opelika, /\la., Sept. 13, 18ri3. 442. R.11/,crt Bis//11, b. Oct. 21, I 850. Elvira Caroline (Bevill) Bowen died in Columbus, Ga., Oct. 7, 1857. Dr. Elisha Bowen married (211elL in Boston, Mass., June 24, 1858, Ellen Stevens Lovering t1augllter of (',ii man an Dudley through Rev. Samuel Dudley, of Exeter, N. 1-1. No children. 202. HARRIET SOPHIA BOWEN, daughter of Elisha (102), was born in Reading, Vt., Jul)' 3, 1823. She is liv inJ.! in East Windsor Hill, Conn. She married May 10, 1843, George Otis Clapp, who was born on the farm where he now resides. He was a son of Increase and !'oily (Spencer) Clapp. Children, born in East Windsor Hill, Conn.: 443. Rlis/111 Howm, b. Feb. 3, 1844; unmarried; E. W. HIii, Conn. 444. Mary Frances, b. Jan. 22, 1847; d. Feb. 26, 1849. 445. Georgl' lnt'l'cas,·, b. July 13, 1857; 1111tnarricd; in hardware business in Hartford, Conn. 446. lil'lll'J' 11forr,\ b. August 2, 1860; graduate of Williams College, class of 1884; Boston, Mass., 579 Broad way, insurance. 203. HENRY BOWEN, son of Henry (103), was born in Cheshire, Mass., August 18, 1807, and he died in Adrian, Mich., Oct. 11, 1889. He was a good cooper in Middle field, N. Y., a good farmer in Franklin, Mich., and a good Christian in both places. He married in Cherry Valley, N. Y., Arminda Counrad, who was born there August 9, 1808, and who died in Middlefield, N. V., Jan. 8, 1845. Children, born in Middlefield: 447. Cynthia .-l111c/i,1, b. April 30, 1833. 1 448. IJ,·111:1 , b. June 19, 1834. 449. Norman Jl,fas1111, b. August 10, 1835. 450. L,,•i lort'11:::o, b. Nov. 13, 1836. 451. Polly, b. April 1, 1838; cl. in Milan, Mich., April I, 1878. 45 2. Bnw11i Co1111rad, b. Dec. 28, 1 839. 453. Willard Franklin, b. July 14, 1841. 454. Joscp/1 Co1111rad, b. July 16, 1843; d.Nov.4, 1853. (Kill,·d by a boiler explosion.) Henry Bowen (203) married (2nd) in Adrian, Mich., April 5, 1851, Mrs. Lucinda (Counrad) Stearns. She was El a sister of Arminda, and was horn in Cherry Valley, N. Y., ,\pril I I, I 8 I I. She died Feh. -~' I 879, No children. I lcnry Bowen (:m]), after the death of his wife, Lu cinda, spent the last ten years of his lifo with his stepson, the I Ion. \Villani Stearns, a leading- man in Adrian, and very helpful to me, both for definite items, and f11r pointing my way to them. 204. POLLY BOWEN, danghter of Henry (103), was born in Cheshire, Mass., Sept, 29, 1808, ,llllf she died in Homer, N. Y., at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Webb, Dec. 25, 1887. She married in Middlefield, N. Y., Oct. 19, 1826, Benjamin Pierce, horn there Sept. 30, 18041 where he died July 20 1 1870. He was a son of Mia! and Isabel (Chase) l'icrce. Children, born in Middlefield : 455. (y11tlti11 A1111, b. Sept. 25, 1827; d. May 21, 1892. 456. l.a11ra Eh•ira, b. March 8, 1828; unmarried ; Cooperstown, N. Y. 457. Ht'lll:J' HoM'II, b. Sept. ID, 1830. 458. Sabrina J1lft1!vi11a, b. lkc. 25, 1831; cl. Nov. 25, 1832. 459. Horan' Mi/1011, b. Jan. 5, 1834. 460. A((rcd Coopt'r, b. Sept. 13, 1835. 461. E/111t'r Wood, b. Nov. 2, 1837; d. Sept. 11, 1838. 462. Ellen. b. July 29, I 839; unmarried. Denver, Colo. 463. JIIarria, b. May 1, 1841; d. May 20, 1875. 464. Si/11s ht111t'r, b. Jan. I 1, 1844; d. May 13, 1864; wounded in the battle of the \Vilderness. 465 . .-lrt/111r Stamrt, b. l;eb. 28, 1846. 466. A11~1' l.11ddi11, b. May 5, 1848; m. Wm. T. Leis. 467 . •',·1111111,·r IV,-b/,, b. May 24, 185 I. 206. DANIEL WOOD BOWEN, son of Henry (103), was horn in Cheshire, Mass., March 11 1810, and he died in Ypsilanti, Mich., while visiting his son Elmer there, Feb. 18, 1876. He was buried in Adrian. He married in Cherry Valley N. Y., Sept. 2, 1832, Sarah Rebecca Rich ardson, born there Feb. 1, 1812. She died in Adrian, Aug., r11m ,~.11.r1111t.•.11, 11.1 '/',I, 1869.· She was a daughter of Calvin ancl Sarah Richard son. Children, l,.,rn in l\liddlefieltl, N. \'., ,·i.a:cpl Sarah Alta, wh" was horn in Adrian: 4(18. Ct1i.-·i11 ,l/11//1'111', I,, ( lrl. I LEVI HOMER, son of llenry (103), was born in Cheshire, Mass., Sept. 5, 1811, farmer; retired, residing now with his daughter Cora (Mrs. Shipman) in Coopers town, N. Y. I k married in Cherry Valley, N. Y., Dec. 24, I 833, Anna Richardson, sister of Sarah the wife nf Daniel Wood (w5). She was born April 20, 1811. Children, born in Middlefield, N. Y.: 481. Sa11111d Adams (Judge), b. Dec. 31, 1837; cl. Jan. 28, 1884. 482. llarridll' !.o,'(111cit1, b March 29, 1839. 483, !.11c1i·11 !l11rt111, b. June 20, 18.p. 484. l~ifr,,in Ht~l{<'IIC, b. Jan. 3, 1848. 485. Com Ella, b. Oct. 4, 1851. 20'2'. LYDJA BOWEN, daughter of Henry (103), was born in Cheshire, Mass., i\pril 6, 1813. She is living (1893) in Dundee, Mich., with her son, L. B. Smith. She married in Middlefield, N. Y., Jan. 8, 1831, William NUl/l'l'll ONNNl/.-11'/0N. 7.l Franklin Smith, horn in Middlefield, N. Y.; died In Frank lin, Mich., !\lay .!8, 1862. Children, lmrn (except the first) in Frank Jin, i\l ich.: .f8(,, l>11111d 1/'tJtJd, h. in Midclleficld, N. Y., Nov. 12, I 83 I. 487 ltJrm:::o Ric,·, Ii. August 8, 18,17; cl. May 12, 1864; killed in the battle or the \Vilclerncss. Orderly Serg-eant or the Fourth Michigan Infantry. 488. ,.J//,w C11111p/1d/, b. Feb. 16, 1839; d. Nov. 27, 1864; killed near Atlanta, Ga. Lieutenant or the Ninth Michiw111 Cavalry. 489. l.11d,·11 liowm, b. Feb. 23, 1843. 490. 1!"11,l{t'llt' c., h. Fl'Li, 3, I 846. 208. EM ELI NE BOWEN. daughter of Henry ( rn3), was horn in Middlefield, N. Y., Sept. 28, 18,5, and she died near Adrian, Mich., Nov. 5, 1873. She married there March 13, I 85 1, Samuel Clark (widower), who was born March ICJ, 1804, and who died near Adrian, Oct. 28, 1873. Child, born in Palmyra, Mich.: 491. Cliarlcs /Voodn(//; b. Dec. 28, 1855. 209. LUCIEN BONAPART HOWEN, Esq., lawyer, son of Henry ( 103), ll'as born in l\lidcllefield, N. Y., August 8, 1817, and he died near Adrian, Mich., Oct. 27, 1863. I le married in Adrian, Mich., Feh. 6, 1848, Anna Tabor, born in Bradford, Vt., July 5, 18.!H. Resides in Washing ton, D. C. She is a daughter or l'aul a.id Wata (Whipple) Tabor. \Vata was a daughter of Rev. Thomas \Vhipple, a chaplain of the Revolutionary Army, and a son of Dr. Thomas Whipple, an English physician of note. Paul Ta bor was a son of Stephen Tabor, of New Bedford, Mass. Children, born in Adrian, Mich.: 492. Mm:.i 1, h. Dec. 13, 18,t8; cl. Jan. 13, 1849. 493, F!ort'llt't', b. Jan. 31, 1850; d. in Denison, Ia., Dec. 31, 1878. She married in Adrian, Mich.,July, 1874, Frank II. Tabor, who was born in Prairie Du Lac, Wis., July 10, 74 502. Jami's H11wr11, b. IJec. 1, 1869. Telegraph ope rator, FarmerHvillc, Texas. LUCIA BOWEN. daughter of l-lcnry(103), was born Sept. 21, 1823, in Middlefield, N. Y., where she married Jan. 1, 1850, Asahel Stev1·11s, ,vho was born in Springtielrl, N. Y.; son of James and Rhoda (Parmilee) Stevens. Lucia (Bowen) Stevens clie1l in Tecumseh, Mich., March 21, 1888. A strong Baptist, and an earnest Christian. Asahcl Stcvuns is living with his son L. H. Children: ICIO/l'l'lf ONNN//A'l'/ON,· 7.'i 503, ,!11111,·s /11•111:1•, b. April 25, 1851, in Cooperstown, N. Y. 50,(. /d11 .-/1111, h, SL•pt. I .1, I 853, in Coopcrlitown, N. Y. 505, /,1111l'11,/1111,·, h. April 14, 1855, in Ja11eHvillc, Wi11. 506, ✓ l,1'11 l!'l!/11/1, b. I Jct. 28, 1858, in Ja11csvllle, Wis. 507. Cy11t/11i1 11/arda, Ii. August 12, 1860, in Janesville, Will, 508, Cori1111,· Ala.1 1, Ii. Aug11lit 20, 1862, In JaneHville, \Vis, 509. Lc1•i /lo1,•,·11, h. Jan. 13, 1864, in Janc11villc, Wis, 5 1o. U11co/11, h. March 26, 1 ll68, in Tecumseh, Mich, 213, JOIIN WILLIAMS BOWEN, son of Henry (103), was horn in Middlefield, N. Y., August 29, 1825. Farrne·, Lenawee Junction, Mich. He married in Middlefield, 1', Y., Oct. 12, 1848, Jane Bowen Parshall. He removed to Janesville, Wis., in May, I 849, and thence to Lenawee Junc tion, Mich., in Feb., 1864, where he still lives. Children, born in Janesville, Wis.: 5 1 1. William i£dwi11, b. August 3 I, 1849. 512. Jkh1ilk Ht'11ry, h. April 7, 1851. 513. Ab/1.)1 Fra11cts, b. Jan. 16, 1853; d. in inf.1ncy. 514. D1,•1'g!,t Pars/ia/1, b. Jan. 10, 1855; d. July 16, 1888, 5 15. Clara /Id/, b. April 5, I 857. 5 16, ,/t'll11ic Hlfftr,r, b. Feb. 6, I 860; d. Feb. 8, I 891. 517. /0/111 ll'i/liams, b. March 15, 1863. 214, JANE AMELIA BOWEN, daughter of Deacon lll'nry (,03), was horn in Middlefield, N. Y., March 11, 1828. Living in Englell'ood, Ill. She married in Middle field, Sept., I 848, Charles Brandon Woodrnff, born Nov. 16, 1825, son of John and Mary (Wilson) Woodruff, of Mid dlefield. C. B. \,\T. is 1\m1· a commercial traveler.• He was formerly Superintendent of Schools in Janesville, \Vis.; then Principal of the l11stit11tio11 for the Blind in that city. More recently he was Principal of the Academy in Kankakee, Ill. ON.VH.-I1,0fl/f.'.-I /, /1.-11'.-1 The state of hi:1 health demanded a chnnge of occt1p11tlnn, Children, born In JancHvillc, WIH,: 5 I 8, ,1//iCt' Alaroit, h. Jan, I (i, 1850, 519, ,,,Jr1l111r r;t'o1;,r,·, b. Sept. 15, 1855. 218, CULLEN BOWEN, HOil nf Gen, Daniel (104), wi1s born in Weather:1ficlcl, Vt., /\uguHt 10, 1816, and he died there Sept. 24, I 848, H c manied in Weathersfield, Feb, 9, 1841, Susan Atlantic llaskcll, born in t\1m1tncyville, Vt., August 4, 1822, daughter of Roger and Hannah (White) Haskell. Children, born In Weathersfield, Vt.: 520. Hlle11, b. Dec, I, I 841, 521. Da11i1·I Lewis, b. Sept. 6, 1843, 218. General HENRY ALMANZO S/\MSON, son of Hannah (Howen) Samson (106), was horn in Eastford, Conn., April 4, I 818, and he died in Kingston, N. Y,, Feb. 9, 1869. He was a tanner, and he built the vii Inge of Sam sonville, in Ulster county, N. Y. He married in Newport, R, I., March 20, 1840, Elizabeth Peckham Tripp, born in Newport, Sept. 24, 1814. She died in l'rnvidence, R. I., Sept. 12, I 887. She was a daughter of John and Susanna Tripp, of Newport. Children, born in Saugerties. Ulster county, N. Y.: 522. Marcia Eli::abt'l/1, b. May 27, 1841; d, Sept. 28, 1842. 523. Jl;/11ryh111cry, b. Dec. 18, 1843;d.in Rondout, N. Y., April 29, 1871. 524. lili::abclk Bowm, b, Dec. 6, 1845; d. in Kingston, N. Y., May 13, 1878. 220, Captain Samuel Penniman, son of Hannah (Howen) (Samson) Penniman ( 106), was born in Woodstock, Conn., June 10, 1833, Family residence, Kingston, N. Y. Su perintendent of the Knickerbocker Ice Co., in New York city. He married in Samsonvillc, N. Y., May 17, 1852, N/1//11'/I 1/NN/1/,',l 1'/0N, 77 Emeline A111anda Tripp, HiHter of MrH. S11111H11n ( :!J H), horn in Newport, July 1, 1H].!. Children, horn l11 SnmHonville, N. Y.: 525. Alb,·rt C/111·,·111"1', h. May 1H, 1H53; d. Sept. 27, 1869. 526. A1i1rd11 /:'li'.:.a/11'1/1, Ii. AuguHt ,l I, 1857. ill, JOHN I.ITTI.EBERR Y BOWEN, son of John (107), was born in Frednnii1, Ala., De,:, 1, 1827. Ml'rchant and farmer in Five PointH, Ala. Ile 111arried Jurw 15, 1858, Electa Franceine \Nalker, born in Monroe county, Ga., Feb. 24, 18,19, daughter of Eli 11 ugh Walker. Children, born in Fredonia, Ala.: 527. C/,arl,·J' 1/11,s:/1, b. Dec. 2:l, I 859. 528. Com Edi, b, May 8, 1861; 111, J,111leH 1-i. Hogan, merchant, Chipley, Ga, 529. Willti1111 Gco1:i:c, b. Oct. J, 186:i; d. July 11, 1864. 530. Robert Nm1to11, b. August 6, 1866. 53 I. Otis l!i1ge11c, b. Oct. 28, I 868. 532. Walter Solon, b. March 24, 1872. 533. Johll T/1011111s, b. May 30, 1875. 534. L1,rJ1 Ethel, b. Dec. 5, 1879. 223, MARY HELEN HOWEN, daughter of Dr. Samuel (108), was horn in Thompson, Conn. She married in Sam sonvillc, N. Y., Dec. 23, 1855, Samuel Ralph Harlow, born in Kingston, N. Y., Nov. 1, 1832, son of Rev. Samuel and Jane ( Elting) Harlow. Children: 535. Samuel A/Im (Rev.), b. in Kingston, N. Y., April 6, 1857. 536. Lo,n:f Fra11c1~f, b. in New York city, Sept. 29, 1860. 228. FRANCIS WAYLAND BOWEN, son of Dr. Elisha (109), was born in Yates, Orleans county, N. Y, July 15, 1826. He lives in San Francisco, Cal. I la, be,· 1 in railroad business in various capacities to Sup.:ri11k11dent. f I/~.\'/•.'. I /,1 J f I /0..t I, /J,t '/',I He married In Medina, N, V,, Jan, 12 1 18B, Adeline Wha ley, whu dii·d Sept, 23, 187.i, dauj.{hter of lk ChrlHtopher and Mary AS, (Cnflin) \\'ha Icy, of Medina, wlwre Adeline wm1 horn. Child, born in Cleveland, < l.: 5 37, J_,;m,·st 11'11/do, b, April 29, 1858; cl. Nov, 9, 1888, 111 San Franci~cn, Cal. SAMUEL CLARKSON HOWEN, Hon uf Dr. Elisha (109) 1 11·as born in YateH, Orleans county, N, Y., March 27, 1828. He iH a produce dealer in Medina, N. Y., where he married Dec. 30, 185 2 1 Catharine JackHon, daughter of James and Maria (Marlette) Jackson, of Medina. Children, born in Medina: 538. Wilbor A111[IIS/11s, b. Dec. 14, 185 5. 539. l.1'1111 G,·rtmd,·, b. Feb, 8, 1857. 540. Bt'rl/111 A"all', b. May 9, 1859. 281. CHARLES CLARK BOWEN, sen of Dr, Elisha (109), was born in Yates, Orleans county, N. Y., Sept. 8, I 83 J. He is Secretary of the D. M. Ferry Seed Co., De troit, Mich. He married in Pen Yan, N. Y., August 25, 1856, Julia Maria Hard, who was born in Arlington, Vt.. Feb. 10, 1831. Children: 541. lt'm. Wam,·r, b. in Green Bay, Wis., July 12, 1857. 542. Caroline Clark, b. in Rochester, N. Y., Nov. 4, 1859. 543. Gcorgt' Edgar, b. in Rochester, N. Y., July 26, 186 I ; d. thl'rl' Sept. 6, 1862. 544. Cltarlcs /lard,_ b. in Rochester, N. Y,, Oct. 15, 1863; d. in Dl'troit, August 9. 1865. 545. Comdia r;rat'l', b. in Detroit, Mich., Feb. 16, 1870; d. there Sept. 3, I 8 70. 546. Adelaide l.011ist, b. in Detroit, Mich., Oct. 1, 1871. 232. EDGAR JAMES BOWEN, son of Dr. Elisha (109), was born in Yates, Orleans county, N. Y., Oct. 2_;, 1832. RI0/1'1'/f ORNJW,t'J'J().V, 79 I le is a seed merchnnt In San Frnncisco, Cal. I le married Murch 27, I 8(1J, in l'ortage City, Wis., Mary I lelena Winn, horn in Jamestown, N. Y., Nov. 4, 1835. Childr,·n: 547. Ii/Im ll/l/111cs, b. in Fort Winnebago, Wis., Feb. 1(1, I 8(13; d. in San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 20, 1877. 548. ,lfarJ1 Hli::a/Jdli, b. in Chic.igo, Ill., Nov. 12, I 867. 549. l!ilitli ,1/ddi11t', b. in Chicag11, Ill., June 19, t 870. 550. /1/1111c/11•, b. in San Francisco, Cal., July 31, 1873; d. in San Francisco, Oct. 21, 1875. 233. SUSAN ELIZABETH BOWEN, daughter of Dr. Elisha(109),was b.,rn in Yates,Orleanscounty, N Y.,May 4, 1835. She married in Yates, Dec, 26, 1855, Henry Louis Achilles, educated at Yates Academy and at the University 11f Rnchcskr (N. \'.)., now President of the Pa cific Storage and Warehouse Co., Tacoma, 'Wash. Chil dren, born in Rochester, N. Y.: 5 S I. Carril' Jfa1J1, b. Sept. 2 I , I 8 5 7. 552. f/1'111:J' f.,.s/li-, b. Feb. 26, 1859. 5B- Clt11rlcs Howt'II, b August 11, 1861. He married in Rochester, N. Y., April 1, 1883, llclen Brower, born in Troy, N, Y., daughter of Thomas J. and Sarah E. (Sever ance) Brower. Charles Bowen Achilles is Treasurer of the Puget Sound Dressed Beef C11, He has no children. 234. THEODORE DWIGHT BOWEN, son nf Dr. Elisha (109j, was born in Yat .. s, Orleans county, N. Y., July 20, 1837, and he died en route to Florida, Feb. 27, 1880. He was a jeweler in Chicago, Ill. He married Sept. 15, 1863, in Enfield, Conn., where she was born, Nov. 3, 1844, Mary Esther Loomis, daughter of Corydon Philo and Esther (Newton) Loomis. Child, b. in Chicago, 111.: 5 54. Gma cti-::ahl'llt, b. March 20, 1871 ; d. August 27, 1876. 236, CORNELIA SOPHIA BOWEN, daught.-r of Dr. Elisha {109), was born in Yates, Orleans county, N, Y., Bo frnNll'A/,fJlJW• .Jl, /J.-IT,I. July 7, 1840 She married in Rnclwster, N. Y., Sept. 16, 1864, Samuel Boyd, Esq, lawy, r, now lil'ini.: in Appleton, Wis. He was l>col'II No\' 8, 1836; son of Major Boyd of the British Army, Children, b. in Appleton, Wis.: 555. l!il11a (i1mdi11, h. A11i.:ust 19 1 1864; cl. August 22, 186(1, 556. H,•r//111 /lm,•,·11, h. June 10, 1869. 557. Cliarl,·s Sa11111d, b. Nov, 27. 1871. 558. Ro/J{'rf E,(1;111·, b. Oct. 8, 1876. 559. Flonwc,• f/dm, h. July 11, 1878, 238. MARY AUGUST,\ BOWEN, daughter 11f Dr. Elisha (109), was born in Yates. Orleans county, N. Y., Nov. 6, 1842. She married in Detroit, Mich., March 23, 1874, Gl'o, Wal worth White, Postoffice Sp,·cial S rvice, re~idence in Ap pleton, Wis. He was horn in Green Bay, Wis., July 25, 1840; son of l'eter and J\nn (McMullen) White. Chil dren, born in Appleton, \Vis.: 560. Kirlu• How,·11, b. April 22, 1875. 561. Ra/pl, E/1'.l'!ia, b. Nov. 5, 1876. 562. r;t"(}IKC Pdt'r, b. August 10, 1879. 239. DANIEL BOWEN PARKER, son of Oorothy (Bow en) Parker ( 1 10), f.1rm,·r, S ,ringfidd, Vt., where he was born June 3, 1828. He married thcro, Dec. 1, 1863, Emma C. Barrett, born in Plymouth, Vt., April 2.1, 1838; clil·d June 14, 1885, in Springfield, Vt .. daughter nf Aaron and Susan (Graves) Barrett. Children, born in Springfield, Vt.: 563. li.Jlic Ellt•11, h. S•·pt. 1, 1,%4. 564. l!1•at'lt /l,m11')', b. Dl'c 25, 1865; cl.June 1, 1884. 565. Ht'r/Jcrt /lowi11, h. April 4, I 870. 566. I.ii/a h.i1111111, h. April 25, 1876. 240. LOUISE MEIIETABLE BOWEN, daughter of Do rothy tBoll'cn) Parker ( I ID), was born in Springfield, Vt., Sept. 15, 1832. She married there Sept. 24, 1854,.James lm1ll7'1l f//lJN/WA 'l'W.V. Hr Litchfield, born in Springfield, Vt., May 2 Wis. She 111arried in Mount Vernon, Ill., April 16 1 1856, Rev. William Harrison Bird ( Presbyterian). He was born in Fayette county, Ky., May 31, 1814. lie died in Wood burn, Ill., April 1 5, 1877, He was a son of Abram and Catharine (Fay) Bird. Susan went to Illinois in 1855, in one of Grw. Slade's classes of teachers from Vermont. (She had distinguished herself in mathematics· in the Black River Academy). Children : 571. Willii1111 Silas, b. in Weathersfield, Vt., Sept. 1, 1859; d. in Bethel, lll., March 13, 186.,. 572, Os.wi111 Frmwnt, b. in Bethel, Ill., July 22, 1862. 573 . .',i1s1111 R,rwt'lla, b. in Sandoval, Ill., Julr 31, 1865. She graduated at Oberlin Collq.:-e, Class of 1890, and went immediately as missionary to Taiku, Shansi, China. 574. Frcd,ric /Jpwm, h, in Bethel, Ill., Jan. 13, I 868; d. in Pana, lll., Dec. 1, 1871. 242. Rev. DANIEL BOWEN. son of Deacon Silas (112), horn in Reading, Vt., Feb. 4 1 183 1, is living in Jacksonville, Fla, He married in Rochester, N. Y., Dec. I 5, 1859, Jane Colvin, born near Rochester, Oct. 17, 1834; died in llingham, Mass., Feb. 9, 1861. She was the only daughter of Hiram Davis and Zorada Jane ( Barker) Colvin. (By a former marriage of Mr. Colvin to a sister of the 2nd wife 82 r/NNN.•l l,OUWA I, JJA '/'A was horn Editha, nnw wife of Simon Brewster, !'resident of the Traders' National Bank of Rochester, in which C. E. Bowen has been fr11111 boyh.,ml). Child: 575. Ci1rr11/I l:',•,n'/1 /lt11,•l'II, h. in I Iingham, Mass., Feb. 9, I 8fi I. Mr. Bowl'n married (:md) in Boston (Rev. Edward E. Hale nfficiatini-:J, Aug. 'J, 18(1(1, Julia Gear Barker, born in Thetford, Vt., March 5, 1833, the only surviving child of Daniel Lothrop and l\hry ( Briggs) Barker. 243. ADONIRAM JUDSON HOWEN, son of Deacon Si las ( 112), was born in Reading, Windsor county, Vt., Au gust 7, 1834. Fruit i,:rower and market i,:ardencr, near Jack sonville, Fla. He married in Weathersfield, Vt., Sept. 21, 1871, FranCl'S Ann Fellows, born there Feb. 28, 1841, claughtcr of John and Paulina (Shedd) Fellows, and grand daughter of Fanny (Banister) Shedd, sister of A. J's mother, Children: _;76. Frul,ni· l/r11/d (adopted), b. in Chicago, Sept. 28, 1880. 577. Flora, b. in Greene, N. Y., July 2, 1882, 244. JAMES COLEMAN BOWEN, son of Deacon Silas (112), was born in Reaclinp, Vt., Feb. 5, 1838. Cold stor ai-:e egg business; pnstnflice, North Springfield, Vt. He married in \Veathcrsfield, Vt., March 12, 1859, Mary Ellen Downs, born there April 24, 1840, daui,:hter of Jareb and Sarah (Garfield) Downs. Children, born in Weathersfield, Vt.: 578. Cmri,. Nlt'11, b. Oct. 21 1860. 579. 1/t'rl /Jm1~1•, b. August 19. I 867; m. in Spring field, Vt. Sept. 4, 1889, Mary Aurelia Townsend, b. there May 7, 18(i8 1 daughter of F. V. A.. anti Aurelia K. (Royce) Townsend. 248. EMILY BOWEN, daui,:hterof Deacon Silas (112), was born in Reading-, Vt., May 14, 1842, and she died in Nf(ll/'J'/1 IIRNIW.-11'/0N. Sorento, Ill., Sept. :m, 1867. Following- her sister Susan to the West as a teacher, she 111arried in Montg-omery county, Ill., Aug-11st 8, I 863, l111bert 1111ss Denny. He was born in Bond county, 111., Jan. 1 I, 18_15; son of Dr. Robert Wilson Denny, who came tn Illinois from North Carolina, and of Eleanor (Finley) Denny, of Tennessee. I. H. D. enlisted in the Union Armr July 6, 1861 1 and was captured by Gen. Price at Lexington, Mn., and was released on pa role. He was discharged in 1862. One child: 580. Ndlic Rowma, b. in Sorento, Ill., Oct. :,,4 1 1866. 24'7. SAMANTHA ELLEN JOHNSON, dau~hkr of Su sanna {Bowen) Johnson ( I 13), was burn in Royal Oak, Mich., Sept. 2, 1827, and is now living in Birmingham, Mich. She married, in I 852, Charles Finch Comfort, who died Dec. 25, 1867. She married (2nd), in 1868, Rev. Hi ram Hood (Methodist); address, Birmingham, Mich. No children. 248. JAMES ROWEN JOIINSON, son of Susanna (Bow en) Johnson (113), wa~ burn in Royal Oak, Mich., Oct. 14, I 830. He is Secretary and Treasurer of Holl'ard Univer sity, Washington, D. C. H~ married Sept. 29, I 854, Louise Eli1.abeth Williams, daug-hter of Othniel Williams, of Grand Blanc, Mich. No children of this marriage. J. B. J. mar ried (2nd) in Bridg,·port, Vt., May 6, 1873, Emma Lamira Crane, daughter of Jesse and Amanda (Hamilton) Crane. Children, born in Washington, D. C.: 581. Flom f.0111'.rt', b. July 14, 1875. 582. l',111I !ltn,1<'11, b. March 23, 1878. 260. JOHN REED JOHNSON, son of Susanna (Howen) Johnson ( 1 13 ), was born in Royal Oak, Mich., June 21, 1835 1 and he is now living- in Traverse City, l\lich. He marrie,l Feb. 1, 1860, Eliza Ann (Juick, daughter of Joseph f/l~N/1.1/,0f//C,11, /J.-1 '/'.I Hegerman and Dimmis Jane Quick. Children, born in Traverse City, Mich.: 583. ja111t•s Gi/Jso11, b. Nov. 15, 1860. 584. ./t1l'<'/'lt (J11id,·, b. April 13, 1863. 585. Cl111rit's r~·rm11, b. March 27, 1871; d. in infancy. 586. jt1lt11 R,·,.d, b. June 15, 1879; d. in infancy. 251. JOSEPH BENSON JOHNSON, son of Susanna (Bowen) Johnson (113), was born in Royal Oak, Mich., Sept. 28, I 837. Dealer in produce and stock in Montfort, Wis. He married in Birmingham, Mich., Dec. 10, 1862, Martha Comfort, sister of Charles F. (247). Children, born in Montfort, Wis.: 587. S11sfr Emma, b. Oct. 26, 1864. 588. Jtrt11111· Ct1mft1rl, b. May 4, 1866; d. Sept. 23, 1867. 589. Jostp/1 Frank, b. March 13, 1869; d. August 15, 1870. 590. J. &rt, b. Feb. 19, 1871. 591. Jlli1111ic !.t111is,·, b. Sept. 16, 1872; u. Jan. 3, 1875. 592. Cl1t1rks /Juwm, b. August 10, 1874; d. Dec. 26, 1874. 1 593. Mi11t1 ,lft1J , b. April 4, 1877. 594. Ndli,· Oddi, b. Jan. 1 5, 1 879. 595. Et/1d Cc1111ji,rt, b. Nov. 14, 1884. 2&2, JEROME FLETCHER JOHNSON, son of Susanna (Bowen) Johnson (113), was born in Royal Oak, Mich., Dec. 3, 1840. Insurance agency, Washington, D. C. He married in Washington, Sept. 25, I 866, Eliza Woodruff, born in Litchfield, Conn., May 3 1, I 845. Children, born in Washington: 596. I faYIJ' Wt1odrujf. b. March 3 1, 1868. 597. Gmc,· B01,•t'II, b. Nov. 2, 1870. 598. Stuart Clari,:, b. April 15, 1874. 599. jl'romc Blakt'slq, b. June 28, 1878. 6oo. Ralp/1 6"m11t, b. March 19, 1882. 6o1. Fred. R1111ki11, b. Sept. 14, 1884. /1'/1//11'/f (/N,VN//.11'/0,\', 85 255. CAROLlN.E !'AGE, daug-hter of Huldah (Cheney) l'age ( 114), was horn in Windsor county, Vt., Jan. 3 I, I 806, and she died there Feh. ::?O, 189::?, She married Deacon Jewett Boynton, of \,Veathcrslield, sun of Jewett Boynton, sr., and grandson of Col. John Boynton, of \Vinchcndon, Mass., officer in the Revolutionary War. Deacon Boynton was killed by being thrown from his carriage in Union, Wis., July 21!, 1865, He went West about 1838. Chil dren, born in Wmthersfield, Vt.: 602. A111a11dt1 /,., 603. Frauds I VaJ•lt111d, b. Sept. 8, 1830. (>04. r;,•orgl', drowned in his 9th year. 605. J1'M'lt W., cl. in infancy. 606. At(f{IISla(Mrs.James), b. Sept. 13, 1841, 607. J1111e (Mrs. Pond), b., 1843, 608. Ba.rtrr, b., 1845. 609. llattzi- lMrs. Hite), b., 185::?. Caroline married (2nd) Rev. Baxter Burroughs. No children. 282. RlNDILLA CHENEY, daughter of L11ci11.~ 1-l. ( 123), was born in North Springfield, Vt., Jan. 24, 18~9. She married Jan. 4, 1848, George Kimball, of Springfield, Vt. Children, born in Springfield: 610. Gl'llrgt H11,,;,·1;,•, b. Nov. 14, 1848; d. Jan., 189::?, in Mass. 611. Addil', b. Uec. 2, 1860; d. July 29, 1863. 283. FREDERICK FIELD, son of Sophronia (Gilbert) Field ( 132), was born in Dorset, Vt., Oct. I:?, I 821, and he died in San Jose, Cal., Nov. 17, 1887. I le married in the State of Michigan, Mary Hannah Bacon. Children: 61 2. Al/ml, b. in East Dorset, Vt. 613. ,·Ii·t1111r Gilbl'rl, b. in East Dorset, Vt. 614. Hdward .'-,";,,,·,·t1111111, b. in East Dorset, Vt. H(1 II I·.'.\' l·.'.-1/.11(//l ',I/, /IA 'l'A. 1115. ,1/,1/,d, h. in East Dorset, Vt. (i1(1, ./1111•, h. i11 East Dorset, Vt. 617. 1/'i(/i',-,I, h in East IJorsd, Vt. 6 I H. / ft,r/,,'l't, h, in San J11sc, Cal. 284, JAN ETTI•: FIELIJ, daughter nf Sophronia (Gilbert) Field ( I J:!), was horn in IJ11rset. Vt., Sept. I CJ, I 823, She married there i\pril, 18.H, James G11odrkh, of Albion, N. \', Tiwy live in Iowa, and their children arc: (11n. Cill'11di11, (,20. I.ton ,-///i',·,/, (,21. l.i:::.~·i.- il11,/d1i1,1;l1111, 6:L:?, j11111t·s lfrrbcrl. 285, Cl IJ\ R LES FIELD, s11n of Sophronia (Gilbert) Field ( 1 .P), was horn in Dorset, Vt., Ike. I. I H25, where he died, July 8, 188(,. He married there I lenrictta Armstrong. Children, b. in Dorset; 623. C/1arks An11sln•11g, 624. Fra11ffs, 025. lll'llril'lla. 288, MARCELLA Cl 11 I .SON, daughter of Clorinda (Gil bert) Chilson ( 133), was born in Weathersfield (Greenbush), Vt., April 1 5, 1829. She married, in I 859, John Cropsey, of l'iainficld, Ill. Children, horn there: 626. Fran!.· Kirk, 62 7. Carril' .J111111/'ll1·, (128. (,'i//1,·rl /-/1111li11glt111. 289, RUSH Cl-III.SON, son of Clorinda (Gilbert) Chilson ( 133), was born in Weather~ficid (Greenbush), Vt., August, 1831, and he died in Nebraska, July IO, 1884. He married in Felchville, Vt., Emily Felch, daughter of Esq. William Felch. Children: 62<1. ,ll111J1• 630. llt-rt/111, 6.31. lfaltti·. N/11111'/I fl/1'NIW.l'/'/IJN, 200. CAROLINE CIIILSON, daui.:-hter of Clorinda ((,il bcrt) Chilson ( 1,U), was horn in \\'catherslil'ld ((ireen h11sh)1 Vt., Sept., 1H.B, She married in lllinoi~, in 1H(q, I\, J. Hiland. Children: 6,12. Nos11, b. June 7, 1865. 63,l, /Vi/lmr, h. :\pril I, 18(,7. 634. C/11rt'11n·, b. May 1 1, 1 H61J. 635, Cl111rks HoWi'II, b. April 1.~. I H7 1. 636. Han:,•, b. June 3c', 1873. 637. jolt11, b. July 31, 1H75. 208. i\SEl'H KIRKE SYKES, son of Diana (Gilbert) Sykes (137), was born in Dorset, Vt., Oct 2, 1836. He married in Dorset, Sept. 19, 18661 Sarah E. Bulkley, who died in Dorset. Nov. 28, 1882. Child: 638. E/i:;11/,dlt (;t'l'lrlflk, b. in Manchester, Vt., Sept. 31 1873- Aseph Kirke Sykes married (2nd) in Dorset. Vt., Dec. 4, 1884, Angeline Elizabeth (,ilbert, daughter of Oliver C. Gilbert ( 138). No children. 206. HENRY SYKES, son of Diana (Gilbert) Sykes ( 137), was born 111 Dorset, Vt., March 18, 1844. Ile married,Jum: 3, 1869, Louise Avery. Children: 639. li,£:bl'l-t N,-,,,1011, h April 10, 1Hio. 640. Aft11:1• (;,.,.l:'lllk, b. July 11, 1Hi3• 641. lf,m:1• R/al.-t'sl,)', b. !•ch. 21, I 877. 642. Wallt·r A,•,·1:1•, h. Nov. 2 643. H1111til~t;to11 I'm/I, I>. March 6, 1 876. 644. .-llfrt'd I lollq, b. Dec. 1, 1H78. 88 GENE,tLOGJCA L IM T.-1 645. A1ma Eli=abelh, b. Nov. 12, 1881. 646. Mar.rare/ /..oni~(. b. Scpt. 4, I 884. 64j. Gt"rlntde Martha, b. August 13, 1886. 648. R11.fus St11arl, b. Oct. 7, 1889. 302. FREDERICK FIELD GILBERT, son of Oliver Cheney Gilbert (138), was born in Cavendish, Vt., Jan. 25, 1851. He married in Dorset, Vt., May 15. 1878, Mary L. Williams, who died Nov. 15, 188 l. Children: 649. Oliver Bowen, b. May 8, 1879. 650. William Williams, b. Sept. 17, 1880. 651. Mary /..Qltise, b. Oct. 29, 1881. ' He married (2nd) in Dorset, Vt, Dec. 16, 1890, Min nie J. Kinney. 304. Rev. GEORGE HOLLEY GILBERT, son of Oliver Cheney Gilbert, (138), was born in Cavendish, Vt.. Nov. 4, 1854 He was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1878; Professor in Theological Seminary, Chicago, Ill. He mar ried June 27, 1886, Flora Gates, daughter of Rev. M. A. Gates, of St. Johnsbury, Vt. Children, born in Chicago, Ill.: 652. Hamel Eli:;abet/1, b. May 29, 1888. 653. Bt"rtha Gates, b. Sept. 16, 1890. 654- Geor;:e Holley, b. March 16, 1892. 30T. HENRY CHANDLER ROWEN, son of George (139), was born in Woodstock. Conn .. Sept. 11, 1813. He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 6, 1844, Lucy Maria Tappan, who was born there Feb. lj, 1825, and died there March 25, 1863. She was a daughter of Lewis and Su sanna (Aspinwall) Tappan. Children, born in Brooklyn, N.Y.: 655. Hmry Ellioll, b. March 31, 1845. 656. &rd.lard A11gustus, b. Jan. 3, 1847. 657. Mary Lottise, b. July 26, 1848. EIGHTH GENERATION. 658. Grace Aspinwall, b. Feb. 4, 1850. 659. Clan11ec Wintltrop, b. May 22, 1852. 66o. Aliu Li11dm, b. March 9, 18 54- 661. Herbert Walcoll, b. Feb. 29, 1856. 662. Joh11 Eii'oll. b. June 8, 1858; d. Jan. 3, 18go. 663. Fra11k/in Davis, b. Oct. 29, 1860. 664 Wi11t/1rop Earle, b. Feb. 22, 1863. Henry C. Bowen married (2nd) in Pomfret, Conn .. Dec. 25, 1865, Ellen Holt, born May 12, 1834, daughter of Dr. Hiram and Marion (Chandler) Holt, of Pomfret, Conn. One child, born in Woodstock, Conn.: 665. Paul Holt, b. Sept 25, 1868. 308. EDWARD EATON BOWEN, son of George (139), was born in Woodstock, Conn., Sept. 20, 1815. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 14, 1887. He had married in Meriden, Conn., June 15, 1836, Sophronia Tenant Atwell, born March 14, 1818, in Enfield, Conn., daughter of Rev. George B. and Mary Mceken (Tenant) Atwell. Children, born in Woodstock, Conn., except the youngest, who was born in Brooklyn, N. Y.: 666. Henry Atwell, b. Sept. 8, 1839; d. in 'New York, March 29, 18g 1. 667. George Austin (Dr) b. July 7, 1841. 668. Edward Hancock, b. Nov. 30, 1845. 66g. Mary Amelia, b. March 26, 1848. 670. Elim A11g11sta, b. Feb. 24, 1851. 671. Ag11es Ea/011, b. Feb. 8, 1858. 309. MARIA BOWEN, daughter of George (139), was born in Woodstock, Conn., Oct 21, 1817, and she died Feb. 25, 1850. She married Oct 14, 1835, Rev. Erastus Dickinson, born April 1, 1807; died Sept. 4, 1888. Child, born in Canton, Mass.: 672. Elim Maria, b. August 27, 1836. 310. AMELIA ALLEN BOWEN, daughter of George 90 GEN&tLOGJCAL DAT.1t (139), was born in Woodstock, Conn., May I, 1822. She died in Chicago, Ill., May 10, 1881. She married David Austin~ Child: 673- Danit/, b. Sept. 20, 1842; d. Sept. 9, 1863. Amelia A. (Bowen) Austin married (2nd) Franklin W. Fisk. Children: 674- Frm,kli,1 Proctor, b. in Beloit. Wis., Oct. 27, I 857; m. Dec. 28, 1881, Katharine Louise Tanner, b. in Clinton Junction, Wis., Nov. 5, 1861, daughter of Stephen W. and Margaret (Stuart) Tanner. 675. Amelia Maria, b. in Chicago, Ill., Feb. 3, 186o. 676. Hemy Edward, b. Sept I 1, 1862. 313. ANNETTE LUCRETIA BOWEN, daughter of Matthew (141), was born in Woodstock, Conn., Feb. 3, 1824- She married Harrison Johnson, born in Killingly, Conn., Oct. 12, 1822; died in Putnam, Conn., Feb. 11, 1883. Children: 677. Alice Giselle, b. Dec. 29, 1850. 678. Eri,: Hanisoll, b. Sept 2, 1855. 679. Carl Bowen, b. Sept. 14, 1859. 315. ANDREW WILLIAMS BOWEN. son of Matthew (141). was born in Woodstock, Conn., April 22, 1829; died Sept. 11, 1882. He married in Woodstock, Jan. 22, 1853, Polly Arnold Lyon, born there July 20, 1827, daughter of Col. James and Lucy Little (Davis) Lyon. Children, born in Woodstock : 68o. Mary Dana, b. Nov. 13, 1853. 681. Anllie Belle, b. August 7, 1855; d. Oct. 13, 1861. 682. Cluzrles A11gustus, b. June 27, 1858. 683. Annelle Lo11ise, b. Sept 29, 1863; m. in Wood stock, June 30, 1891, Geo. Dana Lord, b. in Limmington, Me., March 7, 1863. 684- Sara A/JIM, b. Nov. 9, 1867. EJ(;JITH GENEBA TION. 91 318. JANETTE BOWEN, daughter of Prentice P. (144), wa.-; born in Haverhill, N. H., Feb. 8, 1843. She married Asa W. Harriman. Children: 685. Carrie f., b. Dec. 7, 1862. 686. lsa/Jd, b. Sept. 27, 1865. 687. S11si'eJ., b. Sept. 4, 186g. 688. Asa, b. August 19, 1876.· 317. SARAH L. BOWEN, daughter of Giiman J. (145), born in Charlestown, N. H., Feb. 23, 1843; married Charles Willard. Children : 68g. Nellie E., b. Jan. 23, 1870. 6go. Minnie, b. Dec. 23, 1881; lived only ten days. 318. ELIZA J. BOWEN, daughter of Gilman J. (145), born in Charlestown, N. H., Dec. 7, 1848; married Dec. 28, 1870, William H. Upham. Children: 6g1. Frands B., b. March 24, 1881. 6g2. Geo,ge W:, b. Feb. 13, 1884, 319. GEORGE GILMAN BOWEN, son of Gilman J. (145), born in Charlestown, N. H., Feb. 10, 1853, dealer in lumber, South Charlestown, N. H. Married Oct. 12, 1878, Mary E. Fletcher, born July 22, 1854, Children, born in Charlestown, N. H.: 6g3. Ernest F., b. Nov. 25, 1887. 6g4, Carl K., b. Feb. 9, 1889. 6g5. R11tk E., b. Jan. 23, 18g2. 3.20. HORACE EATON WALKER, son of Fanny B. (Bowen) (146), born in Claremont, N. H., August 9, 1852; married in 1874, Hattie Greene, who died in 1875. He married (2nd) July 24, 1877, Sarah Eva Bradbury, born in Canaan, N. H., Sept. 2, 1859- 92 GENE,lLOGICAL DATA Mr. Walker wields the pen of a ready and graceful writer, having contributed to over fifty periodicals. He has published a large volume of poems-1, 100 copies sold; at tends the U niversalist Church. By occupation a "dresser" in a cotton factory. Child: 6g6. Hmry A., b. in Claremont, N. H., April 23, 1879. NINTH G:ECN:ECRATION. 325. LEVI BOWi.:: DANFORTH.son ofNancy(Bowen) Danforth (163), born in Otisco, N. Y., May 13, 1820; died in Augusta, Mich., June 1, 1874- He married May 30, 1844, Charlotte Royce, born in Berkshire, N. Y., Sept. 27, 1818; died in Grass Lake, Mich., August 28, 1870. Children, born (except the last) in Belvidere, 111.: ¥¼- Sidllt')1 j'J.,/. 6g7. Marie A11toinetk, b. July 1, 1848. 6g8. Flomtce J. 6gg. George Herbert. 700. Emma, b. in Grass Lake, Mich., May 4, 1857; d; in Grass Lake, Mich., July 3, 1865. 328. NANCY DANFORTH, daughter of Nancy (Howen) Danforth (163), born in Otisco, N. Y., Dec. 15, 1822; died in Syracuse, N. Y., March 1, 1892. She married in Otisco, Feb. 9, 1841, Harrison Bostwick, born there Nov. 27, 1819; living (1893) in Syracuse, N. Y. Children: 701. DeWitt, b. Jan. 3, 1842; d. Jan. 28, 1843. 702. DeForest D., b. Sept. 20, 1844; d. July 20, 1849. 703. Hmry James, b. August 29, 1846; d. O~t 22, 1850. 704- Mary M., b. June 26, 185 I ; m. 705. Clearlotle D., b. Oct 28, 1854; living in Syracuse, N. Y. NINTH GENER.4TJO.V. 93 7o6. George Harriso11, b. Jan. 20, 1857, d. Dec, 27, 1861. 707. A1111ie D., b. April 18, 1862; m. 32T. JOEL HALSEY DANFORTH, son of Nancy (Bow en) Danforth (163), wa-i born in Otisco, N. Y., August 28, 1828. He is living in New York city. Commercial trav eler for Sheldon & Co., 724 Broadway. He married in Og den, N. Y., May 26, 1853, Harriet M. Gott, born in Ogden, April 3, 1826, daughter of Ira and Melinda (Carr) Gott. Children: 708. Jlddaidt· M.. b. in Geddes, N. Y., May 12, 1855; d.--. 709. Ella Louise, b. in Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 19, 1857. 710. Mary Fra11ees, b. in Mumford, N. Y., Sept. 24, 186o; d.--. 711. Halsey, b. in Hornellsville, N. Y., June 28, 1871, d.--. 328. MALVINIA BOWEN, daughter of Ira (164), was born in Homer. N. Y., July 25, 1821, and is now living in Nonvich, N. Y. She married in Homer, N. Y., Sept 6, 1841, Nelson Pclkt, who died in Norwich, N. Y., Oct. 16, 1853. Children, born in Nonvich, N. Y.: 712. Flori11e .l1alviiu'a, b. Feb. 2, 1844; living in Nor wich. 713. Grace .iO".Vell, b. April 16, 1845. 329. GEORGE WADSWORTH BOWEN, Esquire, son of Ira (164), late law partner of Judge Levi Fowler Bowen (1.7o)(his uncle::), was born in Homer, N. Y., Nov 13, 1824, and he is now practicing his profession in Lock-port, N. V. He married June 16, 1851, Mary Samantha DeLong, born in Crown Point,N. Y .. and niece of Sylvia M. DeLong, wife of Judge Levi F. Bowen. Children, born in Loclq>ort, N. V.: 94 UEN&1LOGICAL DAT.A 714- Lillie Jltfay, b. May 27, 1853; d. Sept. 24, 185+ 715. lllary DeL011,t;. b. Dec. 10. 1855. 716. George ,Vdso11, b. Nov. 8, 1857; d. Feb. 21, 1858. 717. A1111a 1lfalvi11ia, b. Nov. 20. 1859. 718. Frmu,·s War11er, b. Oct. 27, 1861. 719. Clara, b. Nov. 18, 1868. 720. He1"7 M11rrny, b. April 14, 1870; d. Jan. 4, 1871. 330. ANDREW BOWEN, son of Ira (164), was born in Homer, N. Y., March 4, 1829. Merchant, Elmira, N. Y. He married June 28, 1858, Deborah Nancy Weeks, born in Cincinatus, N. Y., daughter of Ira and Eleanor (Clements) Weeks. Children, born in Homer, N. Y.: 721. Howard Caswell, b. Oct. 28, 1859. 722. Nelson Pellet, b. Sept. 11, 1861. 723. Frances Malvima, b. July 1, 1864- 724- George A,ulrrdl, b. Feb. 17, 1867. 333. LEVI EDWARDS BOWEN, son of Ira (164), was born in Homer, N. Y., August 12, 1834, and he died June 7, 1876. He was a printer in Syracuse, N. Y. He married Hattie Bates, daughter of Stephen L. and Amanda Bates. Hattie died a young mother of one child : 725. Enzesl, b. in Homer, N. Y., July 20. 1870. He is an employe of the Hayes Chair Co. of Cortland, N. Y. He married in Cortland, Nov. 20, 1890, Lizzie Pierce, born in McGrawville, N. Y .. Nov. 15, 1870, daughter of Shank land S. and Flora M. (Kingman) Pierce. No children. 33'2'. JOHN WILLARD BOWEN, son of Ira (164), was born iµ Homer, N. Y., June 10, 1844- While at school in Cortland Academy at 18 years of age he enlisted in Com pany H., 157th New York Volunteer Infantry, August 14, 1862. He participated in the battles of Fredricksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. In the fall of 1863 was sent to Elmira as recruiting Sergeant. In 1864 he rejoined his regiment in Jacksonville, Fla., and July 10, 1865, was NINTH GENERATION. 95· discharged. Received only one gunshot wound, though re peatedly promoted for bravery. He married in Spafford, N. Y., Dec. 31, 1867, Harriet Elva Fisher, born August 8, 1853, daughter of Otis L. and Hannah M. Fisher, of Spaf ford, N. Y. No children. 344. HEN RY LEVI BOWEN, son of Oren ( 167), was born in Homer, N. Y., July 25, 1822. Date and place of death unknown. He married in West Troy, N. Y., April 20, 1846, Ann Elizabeth Wilgus. born in Fishkill, N. Y., Nov. 13, 1824, daughter of Abt:! and Ann (Ackerman) W;Jgus. She is living in Richview, Ill. Children, born (except the first), in West Troy, N. Y.: 726. E111111a Lotdsa, b. in Groton, N. Y., May 30, 1847; d. in West Troy, N. Y., Oct. 3, 1851. 727. Mar;• Elbabcth, b. Feb. 10, 1851; d. in W. Troy, Sept. 8, 1852. 728. Chtl1'les Hmry, b. July 7, 1853. 729, A1tna Frances, b. July 12, 1855. 730. Sarah Mana, b. Sept. 9, 1857. 350. HARRIET ANNA BARROWS, daughter of Harriet (Bowen) Barrows (168), was born in Sherburne, N. Y., Au gust 10, 1833. Living in Lakeville, Ct. She married in Waddington, N. Y., Oct. 17, 1855, James Copland, born in New York city, August 8, 1830. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 7, 1856. One child: 731. James Barrows, b. in Waddington, N. Y., Sept 15, 1856. p/~d &c,.r. Z7-,,, .. a .. hul ~-;,,, ~n~, Cal~'/. 358. SARAH GARDNER MORSE, daughter of Lydia (Bowen) Morse ( 16g), was born in Lockport, N. Y, Dec. 30, 1834- She married in Clinton, La.. D~c. 20, 1855, William Alford Dickson, planter, born in Mississippi. Nov. 11, 1810. He died in Paris, Lamar county, Texas, Feb. 18, 1879. Children: 96 GENEALOGICAL D,I T,I 732. Sarah 111/orse, b. in Plains, E. Baton Rouge Par ish, La., Oct. 6, 1856. 733. Hath"e Emily, b. in Plains, E. Baton Rouge Par ish, La., Jan. 16, 1858. 734 William Joseph, b. in Plains, E. Baton Rouge Par ish, La., March 3, 18 59. 735. C/1arles David. b. in Paris, Texas, Jan. 10, 1861. 736. Jvsepl, Alford, b. in Paris, Texas, August 29, 1864 737. Mary Rebt·cca. b. in Paris, Texas, Jan. 28, 1868. 359. HARRIET JANE BOWEN, daughter of Erasmus (171), was born May 31, 1837, in Homer, N. V.. She is living in Sag Harbor, Long Island, N. Y. She married El bridge Gerry Howard. Child: 738. Helm Bowen, b. in Sag Harbor, Nov. 24, 1865. 380. NANCY MAYBERRY BOWEN.daughter of Simeon (172), was born in Boston, Mass., Dec. 25., 1814. Her ad dress is 239 Bridge street, Brooklyn, N. Y. She was mar ried by Dr. Cone of the Broome Street Church in New York, March 18, 1834, to William Moulton Davis, born in Meridith, N. H., Feb. 8, 1813. He was by trade a book binder, and he was for many years in the Nc:w York cus tom house. He died March 10, 1878. Mrs. Davis has always been greatly interested in the Bowen family history, and a most ready and self-sacrificing helpcr. She has had no children. May she not want for hdpful friends among our Bowens. 385. ANGELINE ELIZABETH BOWEN, daughter of Simeon (172), was born in Meadville, Penn., July 24, 1827, where she is still living (1893). She married July 24, 1849, William J. Jones, of Meadville, who died in Rockdale, Penn., Jan. 4, 1871. Children, born in Mr-adville, Penn.: 739. Jame.;, b. June 20, 1857. 740. Jolm, b. Nov. 7, 1858. NINTH GENERATION. 97 741. Josepl,, b. April 25, r861. 742. E/i::;abetk, b. Sept. 11, 1862. 743. E/i::;a, b. Sept. 1I, 1862. 744- William M., b. Jan. 4, 1867. 388. FORDYCE FOSTER BOWEN, son of Simeon (172), was born in Meadville, Penn., Dec. 22, 1832, and he died there April 28, 1889. He married in Meadville, July 1, 1863, Lydia Elizabeth Walp, born in Meadville, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Walp. Child: i45• William Edmont, b. in Meadville, Penn., Nov. 25, 1864- 38T. NANCY BOWEN GORDON, daughter of Abigail (Bowen) Gordon (173), was born Sept. 19, 18II. She died in Rushford, N. Y., July 11, 1848. She married in Rush ford, June, 1832, Isaac Rowley, clothier (dresser of cloth), born in Erie county, N, Y., Dec. 19, 18og. He died in Magnolia, Wis., Feb. 14, 1851. He was a farmer in Wis consin. Children, born in Rushford, N. Y.: 746. Elliott Alo11:::o, b. August 5, 1835. 747. Mary Adcli,u, b. May 22, 1837. 748. Aurelius, b. April, 1842; d. in infancy. 749. Silas Romai11, b. April 23, 1847. 389. MARIA GORDON, daughter of Abigail (Bowen) (173), was born in Rushford, N. Y., Nov. 21, 1814- She is living there with her surviving child. She married in Rushford, Jan. 13, 1836, Eliab Benjamin, born in Cayuga county,N. Y.,Jan.9, 1812. He died in Rushford, Oct. 28, 1864- Children, born in Rushford, N. Y.: 750. Julia Ann, b. Nev. 1, 1836. 751. _lames Gordon, b. May 22, 1838. 752. Lrui Lw:ian, b. April 15, 1841; cl Feb. 20, 1867. 753. Gilkspie Birney, b. May 27, 1844; d. April 9, 1881. 98 GENEALOGICAL DATA '2''1'1. FORDYCE FOSTER GORDON, son of Abigail (Bowen) Gordon (173), was born in Rushford, N. Y., Feb. 24, 1819. He is a farmer, living in Cuba, N. Y. He mar ried in Rushford, August 11, 1840, Sarah Ann Smith, born in Cazenovia, N. Y., May 22, 1819; died in Cuba, N. Y., August 22, 1870. Children, the six first born in Rushford, the· four last born in Cuba: 754- El/e11 Louise, b. Sept. 1, 1841. 755. William Riley, dairyman, Cuba, N. Y., b. Nov. 23, 1842; m. April 9, 1874, Ann Scism. 756. Bla11du Ei,gene, b. March 14, 1845. 757. Ma,y Emily, b. Nov. 17, 1846; a teacher; unmar- ried. 758. Catllllrine Vzrginia. b. Nov. 6, 1848. 759. Emma Smith, b. Jan. 16, 1851; cl. July 4, 188g. 76o. Cl111Tks Bowm, b.Jan. 5, 1853. Address: Meadow Creek, Mont. 761 . .uo11 L11tlur, b. Jan. 10, 1857. Address: Meadow Creek, Mont 762. George S,nitk, b. July 3, 1858. Address: Meadow Creek, Mont. 763. Ro//inJames, b. Feb. 14, 1861. Fordyce Foster Gordon married (2nd) in Boston, Mass., June, 1872, Elizabeth Walker. 3'2'2. JOHN DELEY FLETCHER GORDON, ·son of Abigail (Bowen) Gordon (173), born in Rushford, N. Y., Nov. I 1, 1820, died in Rushford, Feb. 20, 186o. He was a farmer. He married in Rushford, August 6, 1848, Sophronia Adams, bor11 there June 4, 1826, daughter of Rufus Adams (born in Chelmsford, Mass., June IO, 1791) and Sophronia (Searle) Adams (born in Cavendish, Vt., May 4, 1792). Children, born in Rushford, N. Y.: 764- Frank Wesler, b. August 23, 1849; m. June 13, 1878, Cora Burr. They live in Rushford. 765. LllC)' Roselle, b. Oct. 17, 1853. Lives in Rush ford. NINTH GENEIU.TION. 99 766. Maria Bealn'ce, b. June 18, 1855. She married W. G. Young, of Sheldon, N. Y. They live in Tilman, N. Y. 767. Milton Eber, b. March 17, 1857. 768. Ella Mary, b. Sept. 28, 1859; m. Feb. 24, 1881, John Lammie. They live in Freedom, N. Y. 31'5_. LAURA GORDON, daughter of Abigail (Bowen) Gordon (173), was born in Rushford, N. Y., Jan. 27, 1827. She died June 21, 1867. She married June 18, 1849, Rev. John Chatfield Nobles (Methodist), born in Covington, N. Y., August 6, 1825. Children:• 76g. Laura Louise, b. in Franklinville, N. Y., Apnl 19, 1850. 770. Wt//Jor B01t1en, b. in Centreville, N. Y., Sept. 23, 1851. 771. Helm Bray/on, b. in Wyoming, N. Y., June 18, 1853. 772. Milwn Al/Jeri, b. in Elmira, N. Y., Feb. 3, 1857. 773. George Olivtr, b. in Pen Yan, N. Y., Sept. 14, 1859; d. in Newark, N. J., May 31, 1864- 774- Artkur Willis, b. in Rushford, N. Y., July 5, 1866. 378. ISAAC BOWEN GORDON, son of Abigail (Bowen) Gordon (173), born in Rushford, N. Y., July 5, 1832, mar ried in Sardinia, N. Y., July 14, 186g, Melinda Bowen Rice. Children, born in Rushford, N. Y., at the old Gor don homestead: 775. Earl, b. Jan. 24, 1872. 776. Mary, b. Dec. 28, 1874- 777. Dean D .. b. Sept. 17, 1876. 778. Her/Jeri, June 10, 1879; d. in chilhood. 31'9. HENRY WIGHT BOWEN, son of Capt. Henry (174), was born in Dighton, Mass.,Jan. 14, 1824; residence, Roslindale (in Roxbury), Mass. Superintendent of Hutch ins' Church Organ Manufactory in Boston. He married IOO GENEALOGICAL DAJ'A in Boston, Mass., Dec. 20, 1846, Louise Robbins Willard, born in St. Andrews, N. B., daughter of Ephraim Willard, of Sterling, Mass., and Eliza (Copeland) Willard, of Wey mouth, Mass. Children, born in Chelsea, Mass., except the lirllt and the last, which were born, respectively, in Boston a.nJ in Roxbury, Mass.: 779. Nancy Copeland, b. Nov. 29, 1847. 780. Hmry Prentice, b. May 20, 1852. 781. Louise Eli':::abeth, b. August 7, 1P54- 782. Emma Frances, b. Oct. 26, 185:,. 783. Helm Isabel, b. April 12, 186o; d. April 17, 1864- 784- Artlmr Wi'/lard, u. March 29, 1862; clerk in rail- road office. 785., Susan Attgusta, b. Feb. 5, 1866; d. Feb. 26, 1866. 381. WILLIAM RILEY BOWEN, son of Capt. Henry (174), was born in Indiantown, N, C., August 1, 1829. Druggist, Brockton, Mass., where he died June 12, 18g3. He married in Boston, Mass., Dec. 1, 1852, Hannah Alden Goldthwait, born in Boston, Mass., August 22, 1832, daughter of Joseph G. and Hannah (Alden} Goldthwait. Children, born in Chelsea, Mass., except the first two, who were born in Boston: 786. Gtorge U"illiam, b. Dec. 18, 1853; d.Jan. 24, 1858. 787. Cllllrks &/ward, b. Nov. 6, 1855. 788. Flore11ce Hamzalt, b. April 7, 1858. 78g. Francis Dadmun, b. April 20, 1859; d. Sept. 15, 1859. 790. Ali&e Goldtlnvait, b. Nov. 7, 186o; d. June 18, 1883. 791. George Fabyan, b. Feb. 18, 1862; d. April 15, 1863. 792. Grace Blossom, b. June 9, 1865. 793. GramJilk Fryt, b. March u, 1868; died March II, 1870. 383. CATHARINE VIRGINIA BOWEN, daughter of Fordyce Foster (175), was born in Lynchburg, Va.,August NINTH GENERATION. IOI 1, 1826, and she died in Raymond, Miss., Nov. 13, r86o. She married in Vicksburg, Miss., April 29, 1847, John Shel ton, Esq., born in Louisa county, Va., July 6, r8r 5; 2nd son of William and Maria (Coles) Shelton. Children, born in Raymond, Miss.: 794- William, b. June 22, 1848. He married in Mem phis, Tenn., Dec. 23, 1884, his cousin, Helen Elizabeth Tay lor (So5). No children. William Shelton was educated at the University of Virginia. He is a civil engineer, resid ing at No. 134 Greenland street, Memphis, Tenn. 795. Jo/111 Morris, b. Feb. 26, 1850. Educated-at the University of Virginia. Studied law with his father, ;with whom he is in partnership. Unmarried. : 7g6. A1111a Maria, b June 7, 185 r. She died "after a lingering attack of typhoid-pneumonia." A month later her mother died of typhoid fever, greatly beloved and la mented. 385. HENRY WIGHT BOWEN, son of Fordyce Foster (175), born in Lynchburg, Va., Nov. 27, 1829, is a "mer chandise broker" in Vicksburg, Miss., where he married, Oct. 27, 1852, Jane Weller, who was born in Nashville, Tenn., June 9, 1830, and who died in Vicksburg, March 26, 1891, daughter of Rev. George Weller, who, at the time of her marriage, was rector of Christ's Church, Vicksburg. Jane was sister to Rev. R. H. Weller, D. D., late rector of St John's Church, Jacksonville, Fla. Children, born in Vicksbure-, Miss.: 797. George Welkr, b. Sept. 3, 1853; cl. July 9; 1883. 7g8. Hmry FOrtf;,u, b. Dec. 21, 1856. 799. Ann Mitdtell, b. Sept 19, 1858. Soo. Mary Ella, b. Oct. 25, 1862. Sor. Jane Lee, b. May i6, 186g. 8o2. jo/111 Moms, b. June 16, 1873; cl. Oct. 2, 1878. 388. HELEN ELVIRA BOWEN, daughter of Fordyce Foster (175), born in Lynchburg, Va., Apn1 19, 1838, now 102 GENE,lLOGICAL D.AT.d resident of Los Angeles,. Cal., married in Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 17, 1856, William Hugh Taylor, merchant there, where he died August 19, 1878. He was born in Madi son county, Ala., Jan. 22, 1819; son of Grant and Mary (McCartney) Taylor, who were married Feb. 15 1 18161 in Madison county, Ala., Grant Taylor having been born there Feb. 17, 1790. They died, respectively, Feb. 8, 1830, and June 1, 1846). Children, born in Memphis, Tenn.: 803. William Grant, b. Oct. 1, 1857. So+ George Bowen, b. Feb. 6, 1859. 805. Helm .Eli&a6et/1, b. Feb. 25, 1860. 806. Ernest Lr.uis, b. Feb. 20, 1862. 807. Kate Siu/ton, b. Feb. 14, 1867. 808. Oliver, b. Dec. 11, 1870; d. in Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 25. 1888. . 390. LUCY ELLA BOWEN, daughter of Fordyce Foster (175), was born in Raymond, Miss., Nov. 7, 1841, and she died in Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 4, 1878. She had married there, Oct. 18, 1859, Richard W. Willard, who died in Gre nada, Miss., in 1862. Children, born in Memphis: ~- Mary Ella, b. June, 1860; d. Sept. 30, 1878. 810. Ric/um/, b. and d., 1863. Lucy Ella (Bowen) Willard married in Memphis, Dec. 23, 1875, Robert Adams, who died there Sept. 18, 1878. Children, bom in Memphis: 811. Russell Fostn, b. Feb., 1877. 812. Robert, b. and d. in 1878. 394. Honorable MARCUS AURELIUS FOSTER, son of Nancy (Bowen) Foster (178), was born in New Ipswich, N. H., May 26, 1834 He is a farmer, near Colorado Springs, Col, and he has been State Senator in Colorado. He mar ried, July 3, 1864. Elizabeth Harris, born in Wales, Great Britain. Children, born near Colorado Springs: 813. Minnie Hek, b. June 26, 1865. 814 Helm Maria, b. April I 1, 1867. NINTH GEN.ERA.TION. IOJ 815. Marcus Buwm, b. Oct. 13, 186g. 816. Edith /mlt', b. Feb. 17, 1874 817. Dora Int::, b. Jan. 28, 1876. 818. Lucy ,flay, b. May 5, 1879. 398. MARCELLA REBECCA FOSTER, daughter of Nancy (Bowen) Foster (178), born in Iowa City, la., June 16, 1840, married there B. F. Hoopes, nowa.merchant of Boulder, Mont. They have one son: 819. William P., b., 1862. 391. HENRY BOWEN FOSTER, son of Nancy (Bowep) Foster (178), was born in Iowa City, Ia., Sept. 14, 1842. He was, in the battle of Pittsburg Landing, instantly killed -shot in the head. He was a fine and noble youth, a printer in Iowa City, in the office of the "Reporter." He· was a Corporal in Company D. of Birges Sharp Shooters. 399. LUCIEN H. SOUTHARD, son of Louisa (Bowen) Southard (179), born in Sharon, Vt., Feb. 4, 1827, died in Augusta, Ga., Jan. 30, 1881. He married, Nov. 14, 1848, Elizabeth W. Bignoll. Children: 820. Helm, b. Sept. 23, 1849, in Boston, Mass.; d. Sept. 11, 1850, in Cambridgeport, Mass. 821. Amelia Bigno/J, b. Nov. 7, 1850. 822. Ric/,ard Parl«r, b. Feb. 19, 1853, in Boston; m. in South Carolina, Oct. 9, 1879, Anna C. Eason. 403. LUCY VILAS, daughter of Cornelia (Bowen) Vilas (184), was born in Ogdensburg, N., Y. Sept. 23, 1841, where she now resides, and where she married, June 4, r862, Edwin William Fairchild (a distant relative of ex-Sec retary Fairchild). E. W. F. was born in Ogdensburg, Dec. 5. 1836, and there, also, he died, Jan. 19, 1876. Chi!.;. dren, bom in Ogdensburg, N. Y.: 104 GENEALOGICAL DA TA 823. Cony/ia Maria, b. June 12, 1866. 824, L11cy Vilas, b. Oct. 12, 1872. 408. MARCELLUS BOWEN, son of Dr. Aurelius (185), born in Windsor, Vt., Dec. 27, 1846, died in Western, Neb., Jan. 17, 1876. His health was broken by service in the Civil War. "He was in the First Vermont Cavalry." He married, Oct. 23, 186g, Clarissa Cornelia Rist, born in Chatauqua county, N. Y., daughter of Royal and Frances Ann (Fridenburg) Rist. Children, born in Western, Neb.: 825. Lw:y, b. August 13, 1870. 826. Amy BeUe, b. Dec. 10, 1871; d. July 26, 1878. 827. William Vob~. b. April 7. 1873, living in Swan ton, Neb. 828. LouiH, b. Oct. 30, 1874; d. April 14, 1877. 409. ABNER FORBES BOWEN, son of Dr. Aurelius (185), born in Windsor, Vt., July 4, 1848, is a merchant in Berlin, Neb. He married, Sept. 12, 1878, Hannah Mary Wilson Grimm, born in Knoxville, Md., March 11, 1859, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Ellen (Hughes) Grimm. Children, born in Nebraska: . 829. Aurelius For6es, b. in Nebraska City, August 21, 1879. 830. William Francis, b. in North Branch, Sept. 30, 1880. 831. Akxander C., b. in Nebra..,;ka City, May 21, 1882. 832. Araki/a May. b. in Berlin, Neb., Sept. 2, 1883. 833. Her/Jert Edward, b. in Berlin, March 9, 1885. 834, Mary Atkline, b. in Berlin, Jan. 4, 1888. 413. MARY WILLIAMS BOWEN, daughter of Charles (18g), born in Zanesville, 0., Dec. 25, 1839, resides in Orange, N. J. She married in Cambridge, Mass., April 25, 1867, Thorndike DeLand Hodges, born in Salem, Mass., son of John and Mary (DeLand) Hodges. Children: NINTH GENERATION. 105 835. Mabel T/,on,dike, b., 1868. 836. Chtirles Bowm, b., 1870. 837. Fan11y Edwina, b., 1872; d., 1890. 838. Rid111rd Osgood, b., 1877. 420. ADA BOWEN, daughter of William Flint Bowen (192), born in Zanesville, 0., 1840, resides in San Francisco, Cal., where she married, 1868, Charles· Paxon. Child, born in San Francisco, Cal.: 839. Lzwre11ce, b., 1870. 421. CAROLINE AUGUSTA BOWEN, daughter ofWill-i iam Flint, (192), born in Galveston, Texas, 1846, resides in Alameda, Cal. She married in San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 17, 1877, Rev. Alfred Todhunter, rector of St. John's Epis copal Church there. He was born in the Isle of Wight, Feb. 10, 1851, son of the late John Alfred Todhunter, civil engineer, Hutten Garden, London. Children, born in Cali fornia: 840. Beatrice, b. in St. John's Rectory, San Francisco, Cal.. Nov. 1, 1877; d. Jan. 4- 1880. 841. Harold, b. same place, March 18, 1879. 842. Constana, b. in San Rafael, Cal., Sept. 10, 1881. 843. Eleanor, b, in San Rafael, May 23, 1883. 428. Honorable WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON STO WELL, son of Fanny Chandler (Bowen) Stowc:11 (197), born in West Windsor, Vt., July 26, 1840, resides in Duluth, Minn. Superintendent of large iron works. For six years, soon after our civil war, hr represented in Congress a dis trict of Virginia. He married in St. Paul. Minn., Nov. 13, 1873, Emma Clara Averill, born in Winthrop, Me., Oct. 16, 1862, daughter of Gen. John Averill, of St. Paul. Chil dren: I06 GENEALOGICAL DAT.A, 844 jo/111 Averill, b. in St. Paul, Minn., August 29, 1875. 845. Willit1111 .·fr.l'ri/1, b. in Appleton, Wis., March 29, 1882. 421. OTIS MORRIS BOWEN, son of Darius Morris (1g8), was born in Weathc:rsfield, Vt., Feb. 10, 1837; died there Sept 9, 1863. He had returned sick from the Army of the Potomac. Then his father, broken down with watch ing and with grief at the loss by the war of both his sons, fell sick· with fever, and shortly died. Otis Morris Bowen .had married in Hartford, Conn., June 25, 186o, Jennie C. B,ainard. Child: 84,6. Gtorge Olis, b. Feb. 2S, 1862; m. May 29, 1883, Ada L. Stearns, who died Jan. 29, 1888 .. He is living with his mother in Fitchburg, Mass. 431. ELEAZER PRATT BOWEN, son of Henry Sylvc:s tcr (199), born in Boston, Mass., April 25, 1844, is the pro prietor of Spice and Mustard Mills in Linden, Mass. He married, Jan. I, 1867, Abbie H. Tew, who died Nov. 11, 1867. Child: 847. E1Jt/int C., b. Oct. 14, 1867. 438. HENRY CLARK BOWEN, son of Otis E. (200), was born in Reading, Vt., Nov. 16, 1839. Commercial traveler. Resides in Boston, Mass .. 115 Warren avenue. He married, Jan. 27, 1879, Caroline Juline Pond, born in West Medway, Mass., Dec. 14, 1857, daughter of Jonathan and Eliza Jane (Fisher) Pond. No children. 439. OTIS ERASTUS BOWF..N, son of Otis E. (200), was born in Boston, Mass., July 12, 1850. Grocer, Needham, Mass., where he married, Oct 13, 1880, Inez Raebel Cross- NINTH GENERATION. man, born in Hopewell, N. B., July 5, 1860; daughter of Charles and Margarite (Peck) Crossman. Child, born in Needham, Mass.: 848. Htr.vard C/1a11dkr, b. March 26, 1882. 442. ROBERT ELISHA BOWEN, son of Dr. Elisha Chandler (201), born in Columbus, Ga., Oct. 21, 1850,· Merchant, Cleveland, 0. Married in Opelika, Ala., June 15, 1875, Hattie Lewis, born in Russell county, Ala., June- 15, 1855, daughter of Judge John A. Lewis. Children. 849. Cltandln Clapp, b. Dec. 23, 1876, in Opelika. Ala. 850. Mti11u'e Laurttte, b. Nov. 17, 1878, in Boston, Ma.o;s. -.:, 85 1. Robert Lr.vis, b. Nov. 9, 1880, in Boston, Mass. 852. Ekanor Gilbert, b. Dec. 3, 1882, in Boston, Mass. 853. David Cmmnings, b. July 18, 1885, in Cleve land, 0. 854 Halti4 Morris, b. March 8, 1887, in Cleveland, 0. 448. HENRY MORRIS CLAPP, son of Harriet S. (Bowen) Clapp (202). Data under (202), except of mar riage, June 29, 1893, to Lillian Marie Davis. Residence, after August 1, 18g3, No. 7 Monument street, W. Medford, Mass. 447. CYNTHIA AMELIA BOWEN, daughter of Henry (203), born in Middlefield, N. Y., April 30, 1833; resides in Tipton (Franklin), near Adrian, Mich. .,She, mar ried in Franklin, Nov. 1, 1851, George Fuller, a farmer, born in Vermont, April 8, 1808. He died in Franklin, Mich., May 31, 1873. Children, born in Franklin, Mich.: 855. Davis Cluster, b. Nov. 8, 1852. 856. Josepk B Captain HENRY BOWEN, son of Henry (203), born in Middlefield, Otsego county, N. Y., June 19, 1834, married, Jan. 9, 1856, in Tecumseh, Mich., Sarah Cane bum, born Sept. 10, 1832. The compiler regrets his fail ure to secure definite information of Capt. Henry Bowen's war record, said to have been highly creditable. He has been engaged in railroad business in Adrian. Children, born there: 862. Henry C., b. March 28, 1857. 863. Anninda, b. Oct. 20, 186o. 864,. William Frmc/1, b. April 20, I 862. 865. Lulu, b. June 21, 1867. NORMAN MASON BOWEN, son of Henry (203), born in Middlefield, N. Y., August 10, 1835, is a carpenter in Ithaca, Mich. In our Civil War he was First Sergeant in the Eleventh Michigan Cavalry, Company H. He mar ried, March 4, 186o, Artemisia Savier. daughter of Cyrus, who was a nephew of Gen. John Savier, famous in the Revolution. Children: 866. Frank Let, b. in Rush, Mich., Jan. 16, 1861. 867. Jostpl, Counrad, b. in Franklin, Mich., Feb. 24, 1862. 868. Fred. Earl, b. in Franklin, Mich., August 8, 1863. 86g. Cyrus Hmry, b. in New Haven, Mich., June 20, 1867. 870. Carrit Matilda, b. in New Haven, Mich., August 5, 186g. 871. Bn11,.a May, b. in Arcade, Mich., Jan; 24, 1877. NINTll GENERA TJON. 450. LEVI LORENZO BOWEN.son ofHenry(203), was born in Middlefield, N. Y., Nov. 13, 1836. A farmer in Franklin, (postoffice, Tecumseh), Mich. He married in Franklin, Mich., Mary Jane Wright, born in Ontario county, N. Y., 1840. Child: 872. Cy11tllia A11g11sta, b. in Franklin, April 22,. 1858. 451. POLLY BOWEN, daughter of Henry (203), born in Middlrfield, N. Y., April 1, 1838, died in Milan, Mich., April 1, 1878. She married in Adrian, Mich., March 9, 1862, Church Austin. Children, born in Milan, Mich.: 873. Silas Beno,n", b. June 12, 1863. 874- Lucinda, b. Nov 7, 1866; d. August 23, 186g. 875. Luella, b. Oct. 24, 1869. 876. Clarissa .May, b. May 22, 1872; m. Oct. 7, 1891, Wm. Russell. 877. Henry, b. Feb. 15, 1874- 452. BENONI COUNRAD BOWEN.son ofHenry(203), was born in Middlefield, N. Y., Dec. 28, 1839. A farmer in Smithland, Ia. Married in Janesville, Wis., Jan. 3, 1866, Juliette L. Smith, born April 24, 1846, daughter of Arte mus W. and Julia G. Smith. Children, born, the three older in Tipton, Mich., the rest in Smithland, Ia.: 878. Artemus S"lith, b. Dec. 7, 1866; d. Feb. 8, 1867. 879. Gertie Louise, b. April 16, 1868. 88o. Lydia .il,fi11er;,a, b. March 8, 1870. 881. Alice Rose. b. Oct. 24, 1872. 882. Albn-t, h. Jan. 21, 1875: d. Jan. 29, 1875. 883. Josepk Arthur, b. June 21, 1876. 884- Zelda Rebecca, b. Jan. 20, 1883. 885. Jennie Estelle, b. Dec. 1. 1884- 886. Arminda Pearl, b. March 7, 1887. IJO GE.VFJ.-tLOGICAL DATA 463. WILLARD FRANKLIN BOWEN, son of Henry (203), was born in M1dclldield, N. Y., July 14, 1841. City transportation business, Adrian, Mich. He married, Dec. 2, 1862, in Franklin, Mich .. her birthplace, Susan Jane Gould, born June 10, 1343, died in Adrian, Jan. 12, 1885, daugh ter of Samuel and Susan Gould, both originally from the State of New York. Children, born in Franklin, Mich.: 88i. Willard Stet1ms, b. April 3, 1866. 888. Sa11111d B11rto11. b. Sept. 28, !Sil. 889. Gcrtrudt' Priscilla, b. Sept. 23, 18i5• Sgo. Jennie Louise, b Jan. 12, 1881. W. F. B. married (2nd) in Adrian, Mich., Nov. 4, 1885, Mary Lisbeth Brown, widow of James Henry Brown, and daughter of John and Jane (Gla.~gow) Wade. Mary L. Brown was born in Jonesville, Mich., July 31, 1855. 466. CYNTHIA ANN PIERCE, daughter of Polly (Bow en) Pierce (204), born in Middlefidd, N. Y., Sept. 25, 1827, died May 21, 1892, in Homer, N. Y., "greatly beloved and mourned by all.·• She married, Oct. ·9. 1850, Sumner Cur tiss Webb, M. D., now a practicing physician in Homer, N. Y., "then teacher in the Normal School at Albany." He was born Oct. 21, 1820, son of Curtiss and Margaret (Hitchcock) Webb. Children, born in Homer, N. Y.: 891. C/,ar/es S., b. Dec. 25, 1851, d. Sept. 15, 1882. "My son Charles married," said his mother," and had one son, Arthur.'' 892. William S., b. Jan. 5, 1856; d. Nov. 15, 1878. "Wilham died of consumption, aged 23." 893. H 89;. Artl111r H., b. May 30, 1869; d. Dec. 8, 1883. 1 896. La11ra Belle, b. Sept. 20, 1871; d. Oct. 25, 1886, Horace M. owns and manages the old Pierce home- stead in Middlefield. 480. ALFRED COOPER PIERCE, son of Polly (Bowen) Pierce (204). born in Middlefield, N. Y., Sept. 13, 1835, is in the real estate busine-.s in Junction City, Kans. He mar ried in Middlefield, N. Y., his cousin, Harriette L. Bowen (482). Children, born in Junction City, Kans.: 897. Alfred Bowi:11, b. Dec. 6, 1867. · 898 Mary, b. August 2, 1869. 899. Harriet, b. Sept. 12, 1871. 900. Madgc, b. Jan. 18, 1875. 901. Lr.Ji Bnyi1min, b. Dec. 30, 1876. 902. Marcia, b. Uec. 7. 1878. 903. Maud, b. June 30, 1881. 485. ARTHUR STEWART PIERCE, son of Polly (Bow en) Pierce (204), born in Middlefield, N. Y., Feb. 28; 1846; lives in Kansas City, Mo. ;, Pierce Brothers Commission Company, Incorporated, Rec~ivers and Shfppers of Grain, Propriet,:-rs of Kansas Elevator." He married Kate Hands, born near Loui,;ville, Ky., Jan. 21, 1849; daughter of James H. and Mary Hands. Children, born in Kansas City~ Mo.: II2 GENEALOG/0.-1 I, DA TA 904- laura E., b. Sc:pt. 5. 187 1, 905. William E., b. Oct. 31, 1873. go6. Flormu, b. Oct., 1875; d. Nov., 1876. 907. Artlmr S., b. Nov. 19, 1877. 908. Lilia11 K., b. Nov. 7, 1883. 488. AMY LUDELIA PIERCE, daughter of Polly (Bow en) Pierce (204), was born in Middlefield, N. Y., May 5, 1848. She married Wm. T. Leis. Childrc:n: 909. ---, b. --; d. --. 910. ,b.--; d.--. 481'. SUMNER WEBB PIERCE, :;on of Polly (Bowen) Pierce (204), bom in Middlefield. N. Y., May 24, 1851, is President of the " Provident Loan Trust Company" of Kansas City, Mo.; capital, $500,000." He married in Junc tion City, Kans., Jan. 14, 1874, Anna Elizabeth Manley, born in Buffalo, N. Y., May 16, 1853; daughter of Char.les and Martita It Manley. Children, born in Kansas, City, Mo.: 911. C/,ar/es Sumnn, b. Oct. 15, 1874; d. Jan. 27, 1887. 912. L11/u Belle, b. Dec. 30, 1875. 913. Clare11&e Earl, b. Sept. 4, 1880; d. Dec. 15, 1880. 914- Horace Ma11/ey, b. August, 25, 1882. 488. CALVIN MONROE BOWEN, son of Daniel Wood Bowen {205), born in Middlefield, N. Y., Oct. 19, 1863, now resides with his children in Cedar Rapids, Ia., but he passed hi:1 marric:d lire a miller in Fon du Lac, Wis. He married in Janesville, Wis., Jan. 1, 1861, Roancy French Bean, daughter of Joel and Roxanna (Blodgett) Bean. She was born in Milan, N. H., August 3, 1832, and !.he died in Fon du L1c., Wis., Feb. 23, 1881. Children: 915. E/-,. Bean, b. Nov. 10, 1862; d. July 2, 1866. NINTJI GENERATION. 113 916. James Blodgett, b. Oct. 15, 1864; a machinist at Cedar Rapids, Ia. 917. Hallie Roweua, b. Nov. 6, 1866; d. Dec. 1, 1882. 918. Mamie Eli::a/Jt'lk, b. June 4, 1870. 489. DELOS WOOD BOWEN, son of Daniel Wood Bowen (205), was born in Middlefield. N. Y., June 16, 1835. "Bowen & Fennigcr, attorneys-at-law, land brokers, loan and collection agents, Dows, Ia." He married in Tecum seh, Mich., July 4, 1861, Betsey Anna Chappell, born in Howard county, Mich., Oct. 4, 1841, dau~hter of Rev. Sam uel A. and Elizabeth Chappell. Children : 919. A1111a Addaide, b. in Raisin, Mich., Sept. 1, 1862; d. in Honey Creek, Ia., August 31, 1863. 920. Ella Jane, b. in Honey Creek, Ia., Nov. 22, 1863; d. in Dows, Ia., June 20, 1881. 4'2'0. CHARLES ROBINSON BOWEN, son of Daniel Wood Bowen (205), born in Middlefield, N. Y., May 26, 1837, is a gardener and fruit grower in Toledo, O.; proprie tor of the "Wayne Street Fruit Farm... He married in Adrian, Mich., Oct. 21, 1866, Celia Jane Carter, bom in Cuba, N. Y., Oct. 22, 1848, daughter of Philo and Frances Louise (Hascall) Carter. Children: 921. Cluster Robi11so11, b. July 22, 1867, in Adrian, Mich. 922. Lvuis Albert, b. August 9. 186g. in Toledo, 0. 923. l7armcr, b. August 4, 1875, in Toledo. 0. 924 Lawrmce, b. August 4, 1875, in Toledo, 0. 925. LomzaJmze, b. March 5, 1883, in Toledo, 0. 4'2'1. LUCINDA ALMIRA BOWEN, daughter of Daniel Wood Bowen (205), born in Middlefield, N. Y .. July 12, 1839, married in Adrian, Mich., April 8, 1858, Russell Carrain Carter, born in Ashford, N. Y., March 14, 1832, son of Norman B. and Mentha M. Carter, late of Ogden, II4 GENEALOGICAL DATA Mich. Address: Blissfield, Mich. Children, born in Og den, Mich.: 926. Cora .-1/mira, b. Jan. 16, 1893; m. Jan. 10, 1883, Webster C. ·Jipson, Blissfield, Mich. No children. 927. Non11a11 Rract' Carlt·r, b. Sept. 6, 1863. 412. FRANCES A~N BOWEN. daughter of Daniel Wood Bowen (205). born in Middlefield, N. Y., March 6, 1841, married in Adrian, Mich .. Jan. 1, 1866, Joseph Anton Lieb habcr, born in Switzerland, Europe, March 1, 1813. He was educated at Augsburg, Germany, and was master of eleven languages. He came to Milwaukee, Wis., in 1841. One year after marriage he removed to Toledo, 0., where he was "abstract clerk" in the Wabash Railroad office. He died suddenly of heart failure. August 7, 1878. Chil dren: 928. Frances Joscpluiu, b. in Adrian, Mich., July 6, 1 %7; d. there August 15, 1867. 929. Flora Ann. b. July 2, 186<), in Toledo, 0. 930 Sarai, Louisa. b. Oct. 18, 1872. in Toledo, 0. Frances A. (Bowen) Liebhaber married in Toledo, 0., Jan. 13, 18~0. Charks Henry Krueger, a market gardener there. where he wao; born F eh. 22, 186o; son of Charles and Mary Krueger. Child : 931. Fra11k C/u,rlcs, b. Jan. 7, 1881, in Toledo, 0. 413. EMMA LOUISE BOWEN, daughter of Daniel Wood Bowen (205), born in Middlefield, N. Y .• August 13, 1842; died in Toledo, 0., July 3, 1888. She married in Tecum seh, Mich., Sept. 30, 186o, Henry Charles Ingraham, from whom she separated in Trenton, N. J., Nov., 1870,and was granted a divo•ce Feb. 8. 1873. She was a teacher for many years in Toledo, 0. Children: 932. Alice Eila, b. Feb. 19. 1863, in Raisin Valley, Mich. 933. Eva, b. in Trenton, N. J., June 24, 1870; d. in Adrian, Mich., Nov. 19, 1870. NINTJI OENERATION. 414. MARY JANE BOWEN, daughter of Daniel Wood Bowen (205). born in Middlefield, N. Y., May 27, 1844, is living in Tecumseh, Mich. She married in Adrian, Mich., March 1, 186o, Chauncy Cunningham. born in Oswego county, N. Y., 1838. He was killed at Florence, Ala., Au gust 11, 1864. He was First Lieutenant of Company E., Twelfth Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry. Mary Jane (Rowen) Cunningham married in New Ha ven, Conn., April 12, 1875, Henry Charles Ingraham, born Jan. 15, 1837, in Little Falls. N. Y. "Inventor and manu facturer of Ingraham's Improved Reduction Mill." "Super intendent ofTiffany Iron Works. Tecumseh, Mich." Chil dren, born in Woodbridge, N. J.: 934. 1rlary• Pmrl, b. Nov. 23, 1880. 935. A11g11staJa1,c, b. Nov. 23, 1880. 415. ELMER WILLIAMS ROWEN, son of Daniel Wood Bowen (205), was born in Middlefield, N. Y., April 8, 1846. Commercial traveler, residence in Ypsilanti, Mich. He married in Chicago, 111., Nellie Louisa Dawes, born in Adrian, Mich., Nov. 23, 1851; daughter of Hiram and Mary (Davis) Dawes. Children: 936. Edyth Helm, b. Nov. 30, 1870, in Detroit, Mich. 937. Co11r/11e;1 il'ldvilk, b. July 2, 1872, in Ypsilanti, Mich. 938. il'labd/e Georg-in,·. b. Nov. 23, 1874, in Ypsilanti, Mich. 418. DAVID RICHARDSON BOWEN, son of Daniel Wood Bowen (205). was born in Middlefield, N. Y., April 26, 1848. Commercial traveler for a music house. Resi dence, Jackson, Mich. He married in Adrian, Mich., Dec. 2;. 1868. Emma Baldwin, born in Watertown, N. V., Dec. 30, 1847; died in Jackson, Mich., April 1, 1880. Children: u6 GENEALOGICAL DATA 939. E!b.·rt, b. in Adrian, July 11, 1870; killed by a boiler explosion in Aberdeen, Dakota, August 14, 1889. 940. Htlrry, b. in Adrian, Jan. 23, 1873. 941. Horact', b. in Jackson, Mich., Nov. 14, 1876. David Richardson Bowen married (:md) in Hillsdale, Mich., May 5, 1889, Alice Stambach. Child: 942. Pa11/, b. in Jackson, Mich., May 5, 1890. 41'9. HORACE ELBERT BOWEN, son of Danid Wood (205), bom in Middlefield, N. Y., March 21, 1854, resides in Manchester, Mich. "H. E. Bowen & Co .• manufacturers of brooms and brushes." He married in Manchcskr, March 30, 1880, Alta Irene Tuthill, born in that place Sept. 15, 1859, daughter of George and Jane (Rull) Tuthill. Chil dren, the first born in Ypsilanti, Mich., the others in Man chester: 943. Claude Archer, b. April 10, 1881. 944- Philia Ha;d, b. March 15, 1886. 945. Leo Ma.r, b. Nov. 10, 1888. 481. Judge SAMUEL ADAMS BOWEN, son of Levi Bowen (2o6), born in Middlefield, N. Y., Dec. 31, 1837; died in Cooperstown, N. Y., Jan. 28, 1884- He graduated at Union College in 186o. He studied and practiced law in Cooperstown, N. Y., and he was twice elected prosecuting attorney. In 1877 he was elected judge of Otsego county, which office he held for six years with ability and integrity. He married in Hudson, N. Y., Nov. 16, 1864, Annie F. Butts, born there Feb. II, 1833.and now residing in Coop erstown, N. Y. Children, bom in Cooperstown: 946. Grace Scott, b. March 9, 1867. 947. Ruth, b. Fc:b. 16, 1870; d. March 2, 1872. 948. Harry, b. Nov. 3, 1871; d. July 4, 1872. 949- Samuel Nds01t, b. Jan. 25, 1876; cl. Feb. 2, 1882. NJNTEI GENRRA TJON. II7 482. HARIETTE LOVONCIA ROWEN, daughter of Levi H. Bowl·n (:m6), born in Middlefidd, N. Y., March 29, 1839, resides in Junction City, Kansas. Her marriage and family arc already given under the name of her cousin, Alfred Pierce (454). She was, in Junction City, for eight years a member of the Board of Education. and for four years its presiding officer-the first lady in her State so honored. 483. LUCIEN BARON ROWEN, son of Levi H. Rowen (206), born in Middlefield, N. Y., June 20, 1842, resides in Cooper~tl,wn, but owns and manages the old Bowen homestead in Middlefield. He married in Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 13, 1865, Augusta J. Russell. born June 23, 1841; daughter of Henry and Jane U. (Priest) Russell. Chil dren, born in Middlefield, N. Y.: 950. A1ma Russell, b. Sept. 30, 1866. 951. Loulie A11gusta, b. March 14, 1868. 952. Levi Stach, b. Feb. 23, 1870. 953. L11cim Hmr;1, b. May 29, 1873. 484. EDWIN EUGENE BOWEN, son of Levi H. Bowen (206), was born in Middlefield, N. Y .. Jan. 3, 1848. Now, for the sake of his health, a farmer in Lentsville, near..Et~p:-. erstown, N. Y. He was formerly in the practice oflawaiKJ·· in the real estate business in Kansas, where, also, he held important pubJ.c offices. He married in Salina, Kansas, Dec. 23, 1879. Minna Camilla Berks, born in Charlotte, N. Y., Jan. 11, 1854 daughter of John Wesley and Josephine (Woodside) Berks.· Children, the first three born in Salina, Kans., the last two in Middlefield, N. Y.: 954- Joseplti11e Ddacrozx, b. March 16, 1882. 955. Sa11ntel Adams, b. Nov. 14, 1884- 956. Fra11cis Homer, b. July 15, 1886. 957 . .Edwi11 Nelso11, b. July 28, 1889. 958. Gertntde, b. April 5, 1891. II8 1;1-:KF:.•ILOGICAL DATA 485. CORA ELLA ROWEN, daughter of Levi H. Bowen (206), born in i\liJJlc1idd, N. Y., Oct. 4, 185 1, resiclcs in Cooperstown, N. Y. She married, Oct. 24, 1871,Ambrose Clark Shipman, born in Middletidd, Jan. 24, 1850, son of Francis Burdett and Mary Ann (Pitts) Shipman. He con ducts a g-encral insurance business in Cooperstown, and he organized and successfully manages the Ot.,;ego County Farmers' Insurance Company. Children, born in Coopers town: 959. Fra11k B11rdtt1, b. Dec. 24, 18i4· 96o. A1111a Gtorgia, b. Marchi, 18i8, 488. DANIEL WOOD SMITH, son of Lydia (Rowen) Smith (20i}, born in Middlefield, N. Y., Nov. 12, 1831, lives on his farm, near Adrian, Mich., though a carpenter by trade. He married, Sept. 2, 1849, Polly Smith. Chil dren, born in Sterling, Colo.: g61. Frank .&,gme, b. Jan. 2, 186o; m. Nellie Nick olson, March 14, 1881. 962. Artemus Lll(:ien, b. July 28, 1863; m. Nov. 8, 1888, Blanche Barger. 489. LUCIEN BOWEN SMITH, son of Lydia (Bowen) (207), born in Franklin, Mich., Fcb. 23, 1843, is a shoe merchant in Dundee, Mich.; and he is Secretary of the Dun dee Agricultural Association. He married in Adrian, Mich .. April 15, 185i, Amanda Densmore, born there April 14, 1848, daughter of John and Myalmia (Tabor) Densm,·re. (John Densmore died in California in 1850, and his widow lives with her daughter Amanda. Myalmia is sister to Anna (Tabor) Bowen (209), of Washington, D. C.) Child, born in Adrian, Mich.: g63. F/vrmce Bell, b. April 9, I 868; m., Oct. 28, 1888, William Henry Moore. NI.\'TJI OENBR.J.TION. Il9 490. EUGENE C. SMITH, son of Lydia (Bowen) Smith (:?Oi), born in Franklin, Mich .. Feb. 3, 1846, lives in Mar seilles, Ill., and is a pattern maker. He married, Oct. 1, 186<_), Lucenia Roath. Children: 96,l,. L;•di11, b. Jan. 4, 1871. 965. Robert L11cli-11, b Dec. 23, I 872. 956. Han,• D1111iel, b. July 29, 1874. 491. CHARLES WOODRUFF CLARK, son of Emeline (lkwen) Clark \208), born in Palmyra, Mich., Dec. 28, 1855, is a farmer in Fishkill Village, N. Y. He married Emma Isabelle Butler, born at Cold Spring, N. Y.; daughter of William and Nancy Jane (LeCompt) Butler. Children: 967. George Vt-nwr, b. Nov. 10, 1875, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 968. Emeline lsabdle, b. Feb. 7, 1879, in Wappinger's Falls, N. Y. . 494. PAUL TABOR HOWEN, son of Lucien B., Esq. (209), was horn in Adrian, Mich., March 9, 1852. He is in t~e Treasury Department. Washington, D. C. "Mother and my brother Paul make their home with me, and we en joy being together very much." The brother and sister inherit a literary and liberal bent from both their parent-.. and his friends call Paul a philosopher and philanthropist. 495. GEORGE WOOD BOWEN, Esq .. son of Lucien 8., Esq. (209), was born in Adrian, Mich., March 4. 1854- At torney-at-law, Carroll, Ia. He married in Denison, Ia., March 26, 1879. Mary Agnes Greene, born in Clinton county, Mich., Oct. I 1, 1853, daughter of Capt. Horace Sheldon and Mary Ann (Merrihew) Greene. Children, born in Carroll, Ia.: 120 GENEALOG/f'AL D.-1 T.-1 ¢9. Flar,•11ct .·J.1;11es, b. .f,'eb. 14, 1880. 970. Mabel, h. Dec. 3, 1883. 971. Gt,,rgt Wood, b. Dec. :n, 1885; d. August 9, 1886. 972. Gcor,_,:t' Grcm,·, b. June :?3, 1888. 491. ANNIE PATIENCE BOWEN, daughter of Lucien B., Esq. (209), bom in Adrian, Mich., Feb. 21, 1858, mar ried in Adrian, Mich., April 23. 1879, Floyd Thomas Frost, born in Birmingham, Conn., Nov. 29, 1847, son of Floyd Thomas and Sophia 0. (Morse) Frost. He has a position in the Navy Department at Washington. Children: 973. Pm,! Delavan, b. in Arcadia, Ia., Feb. 29, 1880. 974- A,mie May, b. in Anamosa, Ia., August 21, 1884- 499. HELEN MARY BOWEN. daughter of Prof. Silas Towner Bowen (210), was bom June 18, 1854, in Indian apolis. Ind., where she married, April 23, 1873, John A. Holman, Esq., attorney at law, Indianapolis, where he was born April 16, 1849. Children, born in Indianapolis: 975. Jos,-plu,,,. B HENRY LESLIE ACHILLES, son of Susan Eliza beth (Bowen) Achilles (233), born in Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 26, I 859, is Cashier of the Traders' Bank of Tacoma, Wash. He married in Rochester, N. Y., March 27, 1884, Gertrude Strong, born there May 7, 186o, daughter of Henry Alvah and Helen Phc:ebe (Griffin) Strong. Chil dren: 1023. Hekn, b. May 20, 1886. 1024- Henry La-.urence, b. Dec. 31, 1887. 1025. Paul Strong, b. Jan. 22, 1890. 336. BERTHA BOWEN BOYD, daughter of Cornelia S. (Bowen) Boyd (235), was born June 10, 186g, in Appleton, Wis., where she married, June 14, 189.:; Tohn Hutchinson King. Residence, 577 Euclid avenue, Cleveland. I:z8· GEN&LOGIC,tL DAT.A, 387'. ALMA ELLEN LITCHFIELU, daughter of Louise M. (Parker) Litchfield (240), born in Easton, Adams county, Wis., Oct., 6, 1855, married in Kilbourne City, Wis., June 17, 1878, Albert I. Bennett, born in Vermont. Children, born in Kilbourne City, Wi:...: 1026. Malle/ Alma, b. March 23, 1879. 1027. Alice Lucia, b. August 15, 1882. 37'9. OSSIAN FREMONT BIRD, son of Susan (Bowen) 'Rird (241), was born in Bethel, Ill., July 22, 1862. Resi dence, North Greenfield, near Milwaukee, Wis., where he manages railroad freight business. He married in St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 1, 1884, Emma B. Bayha, born there May 26, 186o, daughter of George and Catherine Bayha. Chil dren, born near Milwaukee: 1028. Et,gme Calvin, b. Sept. 7, 1886. 1029. Ossian Clinton, b. July 15, 1888. 1030. Waller Bay/ta, b. Oct. 27, 1890. 37'3. CARROLL EVERETT BOWEN, son of Rev. Dan iel Bowen (242), was born in Hingham, Mass., Feb. 9, 1861. Hr. is in The Traders' National Bank, Rochester, N. Y., where he married, August 30, 1882, Adelaide Mann, born in Alton, 111., March 22, 186o, daughter of Rev. New ton M. and Eliza (Smith) Mann. (Rev. N. M. Mann was for many years pastor of the Unitarian Church in Roches ter.) Children, born in Rochester, N. Y.: 1031. Albert, b. July 26, 1883. 1032. Katltarinr, b. Jan. 22, 1887. 37'8. CARRIE ELLEN BOWEN, daughter of James C. Bowen (244), born in Weathersfield, Vt., Oct. 2, 186o, mar ried in Mandarin, Fla., May 29, 1878, Frank Vincent Wight- .VJ.V'l'll ORNEII.IT/0.\', man, born July r, 18;4, son of Thomas and Isabelle Jean ette (Morris) Wightman. Child, born in :V[amlarin, Fla.: 1033. lwbdl,· hit'~, b. Sept. 26, 1879. 580. NELLIE ROWENA DE;\;NY, daug-htcr of Emily (Bowen) Denny (246), was bor-n in Sorento Ill., Oct. 24, 1866. Now living in Buffalo, N. Y. She married, May 4, 1890, in Seattle, Wash .. Charles Arthur Fellows, son of Rev. Franklin Fellows, of Norwich, Conn. 583. JAMES GIBSON JOHNSON, son of John Recd Johnson (250), was born Nov. r 5, I 860, in Traverse City, Mich,. where he is now a druggist; married in EmpirL', Mich., Dec. 14, 188;, Jennie E. Paterson, born Dec. q, 185;, in Port Colborne, Ont., daughter of Rev. Robert Pat erson, of Buffalo, N. Y., and Mary C. Putnam, dt·scendant of Gen. Israel Putnam. 584. JOSEPH QUICK JOHNSON, son of John Recd Johnson (2;0), born in Traverse City, Mich., April 13, 1863, lives in Detroit, Mich., where he married, Jan. 14, 1891, Ida Wollen Avery. Child: 1034, Ethel A1111, b. in Detroit, Mich., Oct. 23, 1891. 872. ELLEN MARIA DICKINSON, daughter of Maria (Bowen) Dickinson (309). born in Canton, Mass., August 27, 1836, married, August 6, 1859, Rev. William Hayes Ward, born in Abington, Mass., June 25, 1835. Child: 1035. Ht'rbert /Jickti1so11 Ward, b. in Waltham, Mass .• June 30, 1861. He married Elizabeth Stuart Phelp~. 885. CARRIE J. HARRIMAN, daughter of Janette IJO OE.VEALOGJCAL DAT,I (Bowen) Harriman (316), born Dec, 7, 1862, married, Au gust 20, 1881, Edward Russell. Children : 1036. Sht'r111,111, b. May 24, 1886. 1037. 0/h•,·r A., b. Feb. 18, 1888, 1038. Helm D., b. Jan. 14, 1891. 888. ISABEL HARRIMAN, daughter of Janette (Howen) Harriman (316), born Sept. 27, 1865, married Clark Rob erts. Children : 1039. A so11, b. April 2', 1890; lived three days. 1040. A so11, b. Feb. 15, 1893. 881. SUSIE J. HARRIMAN, daughter of Janette (Rowen). Harriman (3 16), born :Sept. 4, 1869, married Oliver Put nam. Children: 1041. Nettie, b. May 6, 1889. 1042. Hm,y, b. Oct. 15, 1890; d. July 18, 1892. l1)43. Catluz Isabel, b. Oct., 1891; d. Jan., 1892. 1044. .EJl1d May, b. Sept., 1892. 889. NELLIE E. WILLARD, daughter of Sarah L. (Rowen) Willard (317), born Jan. 23, 1870, married Frank E. Way. Address: Wahoo, Nebraska. Child: 1045. Clear/cs W., b. Jan. 13, 1892. TENTH GENERATl:ON. 891. MARIE ANTOINETTE DANFORTH, daughter of Levi Bowen Danforth (325), born in Belvidere, Ill., July 1, 1848, resides at 317 Second street, Alpena, Mich. She married, March 6, 1872, Rev. Holmes H. Van Auken (Con gregationalist). Children: TENTH GENEIU.TJO.V. 131 1046. Char/oll,·, D., b. Feb. 3, 1873. 1047. Howard R., b. Jan. 14, 1879. '2'04. MARY M. BOSTWICK, daughter of Nancy (Dan forth) Bostwick (326), born in Syracuse, N. Y., June, 26, 1851, married there, March 1, 1870, Josiah S. Leonard. Children, born in Rockford, Ill.: 1048. Levi Da11forlh, b. May 28, 1874. 1049. Hattie May, b. March 18, 1876. 1050. An11ie Louise, b. August 8, 1878. 105 J. Cllllrlotte Hojlt', b. July 4, 1884. 1052. Fa1111y Bost-t.i.lick, b. May 23, 1888. 1053. R11th, b. Jan. 20, 1890. '2'0'2'. ANNIE D. BOSTWICK, daughter of Nancy (Dan forth) Bostwick (326), born in Syracuse, N. Y., April 16, 1864- Residence, Syracuse. She married Elbridge J. Fenn, Oct. 25, 1883. Children, born in Syracuse: 1054- Mabel Bird, b. Oct. 25, 1885. 1055. Clyde Bostwick, b. March 20, 1892. '2'09. ELLA LOUISE DANFORTH, daughter of Joel Halsey Danforth (327), born in Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 19, 1857, married in New York city, Mr. -- Pilbeam. Children, born in New York city: 1056. Rob,n Halse;,, b. --. 1057. F/ore11et Alice, b. --. 713. GRACE BOWEN PELLET, daughter of Malvinia (Bowen) Pellet (328), born in Norwich, N. Y., April 16, 1845, married there John Purdy Hall, born in New York city, June 21, 1841. son of of John Peck and Sarah (Hart) Hall. Commercial traveler for a cloth house in New York city. Residence, Norwich, N. Y. Children, born in Nor wich, N. Y.: r32 GENEALOGIC.11, DA TA, IO;S. Flori11t' Pt'llel, b. April 2, 187i. 10;9. Nrl.~011 Pdld, b. Oct. 25, 1878. 1o6o. /0/111 .J,/.-ad, b. Oct. 13, 1880. 718. FRANCES WARNER ROWEN. daughter of George W., J•:sq. (329), born in Lockport, N. Y., Oct. 27, 1861; married there, Oct. 21, 188;, Charles Nelson Robinson, born in Kalamazoo, Mich., Sept. 19, 1862: son of John M. and Emily R. Robinson. Resid,mce, St. Joseph, Mo. Gen eral Agent of the Equitable Assurance Society for Kansas and Northwest Missouri. Children, born in St. Joseph, Mo.: 1o61. Geor.1:e BO'Zi'ell, b. July 19, 1886. 1o62. C/1ar/1s Ndso11, b. April 9, 1890. 721. HOWARD CASWELL BOWEN, son of Andrew (330), was born in Homer, N. Y., Oct. 28, 1859. Mer chant, Elmira, N. Y. He married, March 18, 1885, Ella Adell Smith, born in Horse Heads, N. Y .. july 27, 1863; daughter of Milton and Phrebe Jane (Terwilliger) Smith. Children, born in Elmira, N. Y.: 1o63. Mabel Grace, b. Dec. 18, 1888. 1o64. u:11a Frances, b. June 18, 1890. 722. NELSON PELLET BOWEN, b. son of Andrew (330), born in Homer, N. Y., Sept. 11, 1861, married, April 3, 1888, Maggie Thomas, born in Tonquenlais, South Wales, Eng.,August7, 1867, daughterofWilliam Ellerby(born in Tonquenlais) and Eliza Qones) Thomas, born in White Cross, South Wales. Children, born in Elmira, N. Y.: 1o65. Ra)'111011ti Andrew, b. June 15, 1889. 1o66. Edgar Tltomas, b. July 10, 1891. 1o67. Edna Marg11ente, b. July IO, 1891. '731. JAMES HARROWS COPLAND, son of Harriet Anna (Harrows) Copland (350), was born in Waddington, TE.VT/I OENERA TJO.V. I,J.1 N. Y., Sept. 15, 1856. Orange g-rower, Satsuma, Fla. He was married in (iracc Church, Great Bend, Penn., Nov. 9, 1880, to Maud Phillips. Children: 1o68. j,1111/'s Phillip.,·, b. in Great Bend, Penn., Sept. 13, 1881. 1o69. 1£1/1.-I /Jamn,•s, b. in Satsuma, Fla., April :?2, 1883. 1070. 1'1"rmc,• Eht,111, b. in Satsuma, Fla., Nov. I:?, 1884- '2'33. HATTIE EMILY DICKSON, daughter of Sarah G. (Morse) Dickson (356), born in Plains, East Baton Rouge parish, La., Jan. 16, 1858, married in Paris, Texas, May 4, 1S81, William Jay James. Children: 1071. Sat/it 11fay, h. in Paris, Texas, April :?3, I 882; cl. there Oct. 3, 1882. 1072. Cltarl,·s Rm,•m, b. in Texarkana, Ark., August 19, 1883; d. there Nov. 25. 1883. '2'38. JOSEPH ALFORD DICKSON, son of Sarah G. (Morse) Dickson (356), born, August 29, 1864, in Paris, Lamar county, Texas, married in Whitesboro,_ Ark., March 28, 1 886, Ida May Wells. Children : 1073. Sarah Ma;•, b, in Whitesboro, Ark., March 7, 1887; d. in Texarkana, Ark., March 3, 1889. 1<,74- J.1:;:;ic Fay, b. in Texarkana, Ark., Nov. 13. 1888. 1075. }t1st'ph A(f"rd, b. in Texarkana, Ark., July 5, 1890. '2'45. WILLIAM EDMONT ROWEN, son of Fordyce Foster Rowen (366), born ih Mt'adville, Penn., Nov. 25, 1864, married in Weisenfels, Saxony, Germany, May 19, 1887, Mary Von Grafenhain, daughter of Gustave and The res.,. Children, born in Meadville. Penn.: 1076. Theresa Mana, b. March 27, 1888. 1077. Eli:;abeth G,·11rou·.-i-, b. Feb. 4, 1891. 134 OENEALOGIC,lL DATA '2'48. ELLIOTT ALONZO ROWLEY, son of Nancy Bowen (Gordon) Rowley (367). was bom in Rushford, N. Y .• August 5, 1835. Shipper of live poultry, Maryville, Mo. He married, March 28, 1861, Olive A. Harris. Chil dren: 1078. Fra11k H., b. July 3, 1863. 1079. Jm11it- G., b. June 8, 1866. 1080. Flora E., b. Jan. 27, 1871. 1o81. Cora B., b. Jan. 30, 1875. '2'41'. MARY ADELINE ROWLEY, daughter of Nancy Howen (Gordon) Rowl~y (367), born in Rushford, N. Y., May :?2, 1837, married, March 8, 1859, John Elliott Wil son, b. Nov. 14, 1834, son of John Samuel and Phrebe Diana (Calkins) Wilson. His grandfather, John Samuel Wilson, came from Banbury, England, and married Sarah Tyler, of Connecticut. Children : 1082. Frank Btrdlc11, b. April 23, 1861. 1o83. J,dia Btl/e (Mrs. Pratt, Hume, N. Y., 3 children: Kirk, Beryl and Irene). 1084 jokn Sa1n11e/, b. July 15, 1868. Address: 627 Liberty st., Pittsburg, Penn. Book-keeper. '2'49. SILAS ROMAIN ROWLEY, son of Nancy Bowen (Gordon) Rowley (367). was born in Rushford, N. Y., April 23. 1844. Real estate and insurance, Maryville, Mo. He married in Darien, Wis., March 27, 1870, Sebee Jane Albert, born Sept. 15, 1850, daughter of Frederic and Susan Al bert. Children : 1085. Fred Albert, b. Jan. 26, 1871. Printer. 1086. (;trtn«k 111/ay, b. Jan. 27, 1874 1087. B11rt ll1larlli1, b. Feb. 22, 1878. 1088. Sebec Dot, b. April 26, 1888. '2'51. JAMES GORDON RENJAMIN, son of Maria (Gor don) Benjamin (36g), was born in Rushford, N. Y., May 22, TENTH GENERATJON. 135 1838. Farmer in Rushford, where he married, Jan. 1, 1862, Frances Sophia Hammond, born in Hume, N. Y., 1840; died in Rushford, Oct. 17, 1864. Child, born in Rushford: 1089. William Fra11cis, b. Oct. 7, 1864- Editor and proprietor of the "Rushford Spectator." He married, April 29, 1886, Cora Chase, b?rn in Birmingham, N. Y., June 26, 1863, daughter of Henry and Charlotte (Pierce) Chase. No children. The above James G. Benjamin (730) married (2nd) Dec. 23, 1868, Imogene Kingsbury, born in Rushford, July 4, 1848. Children: 1ogo. Jolt11 A11g11stus, b. July 4, 1877. 1091. George Wilb11r, b. May 4, 18So. 1092. Abram P/1elps, b. Nov. 4, 1885. 1&3. GILLESPIE BIRNEY BENJAMIN, son of Maria (Gordon) Benjamin (36g), born i11 Rushford, N. Y., May 27, 1844, died April 9, 1881. He married. Sept, 1868, Caro line Smith. Child : 1093. Bert/ta, b. July 29, 1870. 154. ELLEN LOUISE GORDON, daughter of F. F. Gor don (371), born in Rushford, N. Y., Sept. 1, 1841, now living at Meadow Creek, Madison county, Mont., married, March 20, 1866, William A. Fletcher, born in Watertown, N. Y .• March 24, 1829. Children: 1094- Blandu, b. March 5, 1867, at Summit Alder Gulch, Mont. 1095. Samud, b. August 27, 1868, at Meadow Creek, Mont. 1og6. 1Wary Emma, b. Nov. 13, 1870, at Norwegian Gulch, Mont. 1097. 1Wargaret Virgi11ia, b. Jan. 6, 1872, at Norwegian Gulch, Mont. 1098. Florence, b. June 26, 1873, at· Meadow Creek, Mont 1099. Win11efred, b. August 31, 1876, at Meadow Creek, Mont. flf:NR.11,0 I 100. R111lt, b. Oct. 2, 1879, at :\ilcaclow Creek, Mnnt. 1101. El/I'll, b. March 4, 1S81.at Mead11w Creek, :\lont. 1102. Willit1111 Asltb11r_1•, b. :\'larch 18, 1883, at Mea- dow Creek, Mont. I 103. Carl, b. March 1-1,. 1886, at :\lcadow Creek, Mont. (Blanche Fletcher married, Nov. 10, 1891, John Theo doris Rand, of Butte City, :\font He w,Lo; born in Herwick, King's county, Nova Scotia. He was killed accidentally at Butte City, Jan. 4. 1892. Mary E. Fletcher married Jan .• 1890, in Butte City, Ja.o;per \V. Vincent, of Meadow Creek, born in Iowa. Two children, Leslie and Mildred Florence. Margaret V. married, June 2, 1890, Archibald George Macdonald, of Revenue, Mont., born and reared in Nova !xotia. Two children, William l\lurdock Fletcher aml John Lincoln.) 756. BLANCHE EUGENE GORDON, daughter of F. F. Gordon(371), b. in Rushford, N. Y .• March 14, 1845,mar ried, Feb. 2, 186g, Oscar Devillo Hammond, born in Hume, N. Y,, Nov. 29, 1847, son of Orville Theodore and Mary Jane (Kelly) Hammond. Address: Cuba, N. Y. Chil dren: 1104- Nellie Gordo11, b. in Marshall, Mich., Oct. 19, 1869. I 105. Rose Virginia, b. in Cuba, N. Y .• June 6, 1871. 11o6. Wa/t,:r llO'«•ard, b. in Marshall, Mich., Sept. 9, 1872. 1107. L,:011 Herbert, b. in Lee, Mich., Feb. 28, 1874. 1108. Jolt11 GordtJII, b. in Cuba, N. Y., Feb. 15, 1875. 1109. Ford) 1ce Foster Gordon, b. in Hume, N. Y .. Au- gust 26, 1882. 1 110. William R11ski11, b. in Cuba, August 23, 1889. "All healthy and rugged." 758. CATHARINE VIRGINIA GORDON, daughter of F. F. GORDON (371), was born in Rushford, N. Y., Nov. 6, 1848. She lives in Harrison, Mont., where she married TENTH GENER,tTlON. her late sister's husband, Thomas Jackson, May 22, 1891. One child: 1 1 11. Grace Vi"rgmi'a, b. April 7, 1892. 759. EMMA SMITH GORDON, daughter or F. F. Gor don (371), born in Rushfcrd, N. Y., Jan. 16, 1851, died in Harrison, Mont., July 4. 1889. She married at Meadow Creek, Mont., Feb. 24, 1880, Thomas Jackson, born in Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 7, 1846. Children: 1112. Fmih Leo11a, b. Jan. 10, 1881. 1113. Edith Hope, b. August 13, 1882. 1114. Rol/i11 Hl"llry, b. Nov. 24, 1883. 1115. George Gordo11, b. April 6, 1885; d. April 9, 1885. 1116. Ernest Walter, b. May 13, 1886. 1117. Joel Char/rs, b. August 17, 1888. 163. ROLLIN JAMES GORDON, youngest son of F. F. Gordon (371), born in Cuba, N. Y., Feb. 14, 1861, was educated at the State Normal School Geneseo, N. Y., and at the University of Ruchestt:r. He is in the employ of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, Mass. He married, April '?5, 1893, in Rochester, N. Y., Elizabeth Phn:be Meyer, born June 11, 1861, in Rochester, N. Y., daughter of Charles C. Meyer, b. Jan. 8, 1831, in Leopoldshaven, Baden, Germany, and Philopena Down, b. Sept. 7, 1831, in Albesheim, Ger many. 767 MILTON EBER GORDON, son of J. D. F. Gordon (372), born in Rushford, N. Y., March 17, 1857, is proprie tor of" Brookside Cheese Factory," Rushford, N. Y. He married there, Sept. 30, 1879, Paulina Myra Young, where she was born, July 12, 1858; daughter of William Persons and Lyndonia (Wright) Young. Child: 1118. Bert/ea Belt, b. in Sheldon, N. Y., July 21, 1880. 138 GENEALOGICAL DAT..d '789. LAURA LOUISE NOBLES, M. D., daughter of Laura (Gordon) Nobles (375), born in Franklinville, N. Y., April 19, 1850, was married in Dansville, N. Y., (by Rev. Samuel Jessup) Jan. 29, 1872, to Dr. Irving Jacob Woodin. Address: Independence, Inyo county, Cal. . One child: 1119. lni11g Oakky Woodi11. '7'70. Rev. WILBUR BOWEN NOBLES, son of Laura (Gordon) Nobles (375), born in Centreville, N. Y., Sept. 23, 1851, was married in Pleasant Plains, N. J. (by Rev. J. C. Nobles), July 10, 1883, to Tillie Polyhemus. He is a cler gyman, M. E. Church, New Jersey Conference. Address: Auburn, N. J. Children : 1120. Jolm c. I 121. Natl«lll. 1 i 22. Wilb11r. 1123. Helm. '7'71. HELEN BRAYTON NOBLES, daughter of Laura (Gordon) Nobles (375), born in Wyoming, N. Y., June 18, 1853, was married (by Rev. J.C. Nobles) in Atlantic High lands, N.J.,Jan. 12, 1882, to George Hart Blye, born Sept. 23, 1849, son of Norman and Angeline Blye. He is man ager in Philadelphia of the Home Insurance Company of New York. Children: 1124- Nor111a11 Nobles, b. Nov. 17. 1882. 1125. Ra/pie Gordo11, b. Dec. 17, 1885; d. Dec. 26, 18g2. I 126. La11ra Louise, b. April 21, 1888. '772. MILTON ALBERT NOBLES, M. D., son of Laura (Gordon) Nobles (375). born in Elmira, N. Y., Feb. 3, 1857, is not at present practicing his profession. He is manager of •he Home Insurance Company of New York. He was TENTJI OENEfulTION. 139 married in Philadelphia, Penn., March 14, 1883 (by Rev. J. C. Nobles), to Lizzie N. Schofield. Children: 1127. Laura Gordo11, b. --; d. --. 1128. James B,r.vm, b. --; cl.--. 1129. John Chatjidd, b. --; d. --. 1130. Georgl' Schojield, b. --. 1131. DortJthy An11a, b. -. '2'19. NANCY COPELAND BOWEN, daughter of Henry Wight (379), was born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 29, 1847; residence, Roslindale, Mass. She married in Roxbury, Mass., Oct. 23, 1875, Alonzo Page Chapman, born there Sept. 30, 1848, son of Rufus and Catharine Windship (Bell) Chapman. He is a salesman in the house furnishing firm of B. A. Atkinson & Co. in Boston. Children, born in Bos ton: 1132. Ht11ry .iO"«Jell, b. August 16, 1876; d. Sept. 15, 1876. 1133. Waldo Emest, b. July 14, 1879. '780. HENRY PRENTICE BOWEN, son of Henry W. (379), was born in Chelsea, Mass., May 20, 1852. Decora tor in Hutchins' Church Organ Manufactory, Boston, Mass. Residence, Allston, Mass. He married in Milton, Mass., June 5, 1884, Fanny M. Seward, daughter of George and Lucy Seward. Child: r 134- Hmry Seward, b. Feb. 28, 1885. TSI. LOUISE ELIZABETH BOWEN, daughter of Henry W. (379), born in Chelsea, Mass., August 7, 1854, married in San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 28, 1875, Ansel William Brod rick, born in Randolph, Mass., Feb. 15, 1851.son of John and Fannie Louise Brodrick. Employe in Hook & Hast ings' Church Organ Manufactory, Weston, Mass. Resi dence, Waltham, Mass. Children: OENE~tLOOJCAL DATA. 1135. A11sd Clarmce, b. in San Francisco, Cal., Se1 t. 28, 1876; d. there Dec. 9, 1876. 1136. Arthur Chapman, b. Dec. 6, 1877, in San Fran cisco, Cal. 1137. Elsfr 1J1abel, b. Dec. 11, 1879, in Hoston, Mass. 784. ARTHUR WILLARD BOWEN, son of Henry W. Bowen (379), born March 29, 1862, married in Roslindale, Mass., Sept. 21, 1892, Gertrude Lan~maid Seaverns. Ad dress: Roi;lindale, Ma,;s. 787. CHARLES EDWARD BOWEN, son of William R. (381}, born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 6, 1855, is a druggist in Brockton, Mass., where he married, March 18, 1880, Ella Francei; Whiting, born in Plymouth, Mass., July 31, 1856, daughter of Albert and Betsey (Swift) Whiting. Chil dren, born in Brockton, Mass: 1138. William Edward, b. Feb. 7, 1881. 1139. Floreuce Mabd, b. March 25, 1884- 1140. Grace Fra11ces, b. June 13, 1886. 788. FLORENCE HANNAH BOWEN, daughter of Will iam R. (381), born in Chelsea, Mass,, August 14, 1858, married in Brockton, Mass., Edgar Burpee Stevens, born in Rockland, Me., April, 1857, son of George and Mary Stevens. Child : 1141. Edgar Aldm, b. June 1, 1885, in Buffalo, N. Y. 790. ALICE GOLDTHWAIT BOWEN, daughter of Will iam R. (381), born in Chelsea Mass., November 7, 186o, died in Brockton, Masi;., June 18, 1883. She had married there, Dec. 25. 1879, John Baldwin, born in Fishkill, N. Y .• Oct. 12, 1856, son of William and Mary (Donohue) Bald win. He lives in North Easton, Mass. Children: I 142. Edgar Wzllia,11, b. Oct. 25, 1881. 1143. AUis,m Go/dtlr.uait, b. June 7, 1883. TENTII GENb'R,t TION. 792. GRACE BLOSSOM BOWEN, daughter of William R. (381), born in Chelsea, Mass., June 9, 1865, married in Brockton, Mass., July 21, 1890, Henry Gassett Johnson, born in Bridgewater, Mass., March 7, r 865, son of George and Harril't Johnson, of Bridgewater. T98. HENRY FORDYCE BOWEN, son of Henry W. (of Vicksburg) (385), born in Vicksburg, Miss., Dec. 21, 1856. Farmer, near Port Gibson, Miss. He married at Millemont Plantation, Claiborne county, Miss., Mary Eliza beth Griffith, Dec. 21, 1881. She was born there Dec. 27, 1859, daughter of Evan and Mary Eli1.abeth (Willis) Grif fith. She died on Maryland Plantation, near Port Gibson, Sept. 28, 1891. Children, born in Vicksburg, Miss.: 1144. Jenni, Jlt/ae, b. June 13, 1886. 1145. A11nie 111/yrtle, b. June 30, 1889. 800. MARY ELLA BOWEN, daughter of Henry W. (385), was born in Vicksburg, Miss., Oct. 25, 1862, where she now lives, and where she married, June 15, 1887, George fyncheon Reeve, born in New Orleans, La., June 5, 1861, son of Joseph Mason and Lydia Cordelia (Watt) Reeve. G. P. R. is a grocer in Vicksburg. I Child, bom there: 1146. Hmry Watt, b. July 10, 1888. 801. JANE LEE BOWEN, daughter of Henry W. (385), born in Vicksburg, Miss., May 16, 186g, married there June 15, 1890, Daniel Drake Willis, born on Sunset Plantation, near Port Gibson, Miss., Oct. 14, 1866, son of Josiah Barns and Jane Ruth (Drake) Willis. Traveling Auditor for the Singer Manufacturing Company. Residence, Vicksburg, Miss. Child, born· there: 1147. Henry.i0".Ut'1I, b. August 10, 1891. OENEALOGJO.IL DATA 808. WILLIAM GRANT TAYLOR, son of Helen Elvira (Bowen) Taylor {388), was born in Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 1, 1857. Address: Care Times-Mirror Company, corner First and Broadway, Los Angeles, Cal. He married in Huntsville, Ala., August 4, 1880, Lula Corinne Taylor, born there Jan. 17, 186o. Children: 1148. William Ftli:r, b. in Huntsville, Ala., July 4, 1881. 1149. R"y Keahi1g, b. in Memphis, Tenn., Jan, 5, 1885; d. in Huntsville, Ala.; Sept. 27, 1889. 1150. Earl Carr'111, b. in Los Angeles, Cal., 1885; d. in Huntsville, Ala., Sept. 28, 1 889. 1151. Cyn1 Clair, b. in Huntsville, Ala., Oct., 1889. 804. GEORGE BOWEN TAYLOR, son of Helen Elvira (Bowen) Taylor (388), was born in Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 6, 1859. Address: 316 West Thirty-Second st., New York city. He married in Alleghany City, Penn., August 3, 1882, Amanda Raring, born in Alleghany City, Penn., "March 25, 1861. Children, born there: J 1 52. Lt1/ian Kate, b. May 23, 1885. u53. Pearson George, b. April 20, 1890. 885. MABBI, THORNDIKE HOUGES, daughter of Mary Williams (Bowen) Hodges (413), was born in New York city in 1868, She married in Orange, N. J., Oct 31, 188g, Dr. Joseph Kittridge. Child: 1154- Joseph, b. in 1890. 81>5. DAVIS CHESTER FULLER, son of Cynthia (Bow en) Fuller (447), was born in Franklin, Mich., Nov. 8, 1852. He. mamed in Franklin, Feb. 22, 1877, Adelia Isabelle :Loucks, of Fort Wayne, Ind., born in Ridgeway, Mich., Dec. 5, 1858. Children: TENTH GENERA TJON. 143 1155. Edi't/1 Grace, b. in Franklin, Mich., Jan. 1, 1878. 1156. Waller C/11rk, b. in Hillsdale, Mich., Jan. 16, 1880. 1157. Ro/,,:r/ ,Jl,/,:r/011, b. in Adrian, Mich., April 16, 1883. 1 158. L11l11 Ma; 1, b. in Franklin, Mich., Feb. 26, 1885. 1159. Bla11dte Dea11, b. in Franklin, Mich., March 28, 1887. . 116o. A,,~ E,•di11a, b. in Franklin, Mich., April 14, 1889. 858. JOSEPH BOWEN FULLER, son of Cynthia A. (447), born in Franklin, Mich., Dec. 3, 1853, married there, Nov., 1875, Clara May Powell, born in Clinton, Mich., March 20, 1858, daughter of Sidney and Pearlette PoweU. Children: 1161. Floyd Francis, b. in Franklin, Mich .. Sept. 26, 1876. I 162 .1Jlla1«J May, b. in Tecumseh, Mich., May, 10, 1879; d. April 4, 1893. 1163. Albert jay, b. in Tecumseh, Mich., Dec. 3, 1881. 1164- Joseph Sid'")', b. in Franklin, Mich., June 9, 1888. 858. GEORGE WARE FULLER, son of Cynthia A. (447), b. in Franklin, ~ich., Maren 28, 186o, married in Wolf Creek, Mich., Nov. 9, 1881, Alma Caroline Baker, born, there Jan. 7, 1863, daughter of Ralph #1d Anstine Baker. Children : u65 Lyle Fred, b. August 25, 1882. . 1166. George Wortlui1gto11, b. July 27, 1883; burned to death Jan. 22, 1885. 1167. Guy Ware, b. Sept. 26, 1886. 859. LUTHER FRED FULLER. son of Cynthia A. (447), born in Franklin, Mich., April 6, 1863, married in Hillsboro, Mich .. Sept. 1, 1887, Mary.Walters. born in Jefferson, Mich., Jan. I 1, 1865, daughter of James and Susan Walters. Child: IJ68. Hal"f')', b. June 16, 1888. 144 ru,:.VEALOGJOA L DA TA 882. HENRY C. BOWEN, son of Capt. Henry (448), was born in Adrian, Mich., March 28, 1857. Chief of Fire De partment of Adrian, Mich., and proprietor of the Adrian Ice Company. He married Louise Weiss, born in Newark, N. J., Augu.~t _11, 1854, daughter of Stephen and Catharine (Diebold) Weiss, both born in Germany; he in \Vurtem burg, and she in Baden. Children, born in Adrian, Mich.: 1169. Olea Marg11en·1i-, b. March 13, 1887. 1170. Eisii- Geuevit•zre. b. Nov. 5, 1888. 1171. Hmry Walter, b. Sept. 16, 1890. 883. ARMINDA BOWEN, daughter of Capt. Henry (448), born in Adrian, Mich., Oct. 20, 186o, married there April 27, 1882, Charles Delos Barnum, born in Adrian, Oct. 2, 1858, son of Delos White and Laurana Putnam (Ware) Barnum. Children, born in Minneapolis, Minn.: 1172. Charles Delos, b. May 17, 1884- 1173. William, b. Nov. 8, 1888; d. Sept. 27, 1889. 884. WILLIAM FRENCH ROWEN, son of Capt. Henry (448), born in Adrian, Mich., April 20, 1862, married there, Nov. 29, 1882, Mary Burns, born in New York city, Oct. 7, 186o. L•t her parents when very young. Her father was a Union soldier. Children, born in Adrian: 1174- Mabel Dea/ta, b. Sept. 2. 1883, at 8 p. m. 1175. Gertn,de 1Waria, b. April 21, 1886, at 10 am. 1176. Willia111 Albert, b. April 21, 1886, at I p. m. 885. LULU BOWEN, daughter of Capt. Henry (448), born in Adrian, Mich., June 21, 1867, and Jiving in the same city now, married there, Sept. 23, 1890, Ernest Thomas Ludeke, born in Dublin, Ireland, July 17, 1862, son of Ernest Augustus Luedeke, born in Weimar, Germany,and TBNTH GENEIU.TION. Caroline (Flinter) Luedeke, born in Chester, Cheshire, Eng• land. Children, born in Adrian: 1 177. C;'f'il flli11er, b. Oct. 17, 1891. 1178. Albt'rl Er11t"sl, b. Nov 27, 1892. 8'7.9. CYNTHIA AUGUSTA BOWEN, daughter of Levi Lorenzo (450), born in Franklin, Mich., April 22, 1858, married in Franklin, March 7, 1886, Charles Henry Ben nett, born in Tecumseh, Mich., April 7, 1858, son of James H. Bennett, the husband of Marcia Bowen (211) by an ear lier marriage. Post-office, Tecumseh, Mich. Child: 1179. F/ornu-e Ja,u•, b. in Franklin, June 25, 1887. 873. SILAS BENONI AUSTIN, son of Polly (Bowen) Austin (451), was born in Milan, Mich., June 12, 1863. He married there in August, 1887, Nellie Russell. Child: u8o. Harrison, b. Oct. 19, 1888; d. April 3, 1892. 875. LUELLA AUSTIN, daughter l)f Polly (Bowen) Aus tin (45 I), born in Milan, Mich., Oct. 24, 186g, resides in Azalia, Mich. She married in Milan, August 30, 1888, Sherman Smith. Children : 1181. Walter, b. July 1, 1889. 1182. Lco11, b. Oct. 17, 1891. 8'79. GERTIE LOUISE BOWEN, daughter of Benoni Counrad Bowen (452), born April 16, 1868, lives on a farm near Oto, Ia. She married, April 16, 1889, Joseph Henry Sawins, born in Hardin county, la., May 20, 1864, son of Martin and Jane (Arnold) Sawins. Children, born in Oto, Iowa: 1183. Bessie Ja11c. 1184- Gifford Brr.um. GENEALOGICAL DATJI 880. LYDIA MINERVA BOWEN, daughter of Renoni Counrad Bowen (452), born in Tipton, Lenaw.ee county, Mich., March 8, 1870, married, March 20, 1893, in Ida Grove, Ia., William Edwin Thompson, born in Spring ville, Ia., Oct. 3, 1868, a farmer living near Anthon, Ia. He is a son of Alexander John Thompson, of Scotch dt:scent, and Agnes Melissa (Lawrence), of Dutch descent; born, re spectively, in the States of New York and Ohio, and now living in Junction City, Ore. 881. ALICE.ROSE BOWEN. daughter of Benoni Coun rad Bowen' {452), born Oct. 24, 1872, married, Dec. 31, 18g1, Josepn: Edward Weathers, farmer, born in DeKalb county, Ill., Jan. 6, 1865, son of Robert and Alice (Arnold) Weathers. Alice Arnold is a sister of Jane Arnold, men tioned under 879. Child, born in Oto, Ia.: 1185. Harry, b. Nov. 20, 1892. 894. CARLTON BROWNELL PIERCE, son of Henry Bowen Pierce (457), was born in Trenton, N. J., June 22. 1857. "Pierce & Arnold, counsellors-at-law, Cooperstown, N. Y." He married in Cooperstown, Sept. 15, 1885, Annie Prentice Browning. Children. born in Cooperstown, N. Y.: 1186. Margaret Brr,;wung, b. June 18, 1886. 1187. Emma Kellogg, b. Jan. 13, 1888. 1188. Henry Carlton, b. August 27, 188g. 1 1Sg. Eli::a6et/e Clark, b. May 12, 1 89 I. 921. CHESTER ROBINSON BOWEN, son of Charles R. (470). was born in Adrian, Mich., July 22, 1867. Employe of the Wabash Railroad in Toledo, 0., where he married, March 11, 1Sg1, Dora Louise Byram, born in Cuba, N. Y .• April 22, 1864, daughter of Asa and Mary Jane (Hascall) Byram. ELEVENTH GENERATION. 891'. NORMAN BRACE CARTER, son of Lucinda A. (Howen) Carter (471), was born in Ogden, Mich., Sept. 6, 1864- "Carter & Allen, men's outfitters," Los Angeles, Cal. He married in Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 27, 1889, Net tie May Nettleton, born in Rockford, Ills., daughter of John Nettleton (born in Prescott, Canada) and Elizabeth (David) Nettleton (born in Illandoff, South Wales). Child: 1190. Russel Brace, b. in Los Angeles, Cal., August 3, 1890. 832. ALICE ELLA INGRAHAM, daughter of Emma Louise (Bowen) Ingraham (473). born in Raisin Valley, Mich., Feb. 19, t863, resides in Muskegon, Mich. She married in Jackson, Mich., June 11, 1889, Edmond Charles Westgate, born in Readinr, Hillsdale county, Mich., su perintendent, in Muskegon, of the Collin & Parker Lu~ Company. He is a son of Hon. Ansel W. and Abigail (Curtis) Westgate. Child: 1 r91. Vr.nan Grace, b. in Jackson, Mich., Dec. 16, 1890. BLEVBNTH GENBHATXON. 1012. FRANK BOWEN WILSON, son of Mary A. (Row ley) Wilson (747), born April 23, 1861, married, Oct. 28, 1885, Alta Grace Wood, born in Wales Centre, N. Y., March 27, 1863. He is a book-keeper in Florence, Ore. Children: 1192. Ruby Adeli11e, b. Dre. 31. 1886. 1193. Ella Grae,·. b. July 16, 1888. 1194. Margery Belle, b. Dec. 4, 18go. GENEALOGIO~lL D,lTA 1088. MARY EMMA FLETCHER, daughter of Ellen (Gordon) Fletcher (754), born in Norwegian Gulch, Mont, Nov. 13, 1870, married in Butte City, Mont., Jan.-, 1890, Jasper W. Vincent, of Meadow Creek, Mont., formerly of Iowa. Children: 1195. Les/it, 11¢. MIidred Flormce. 1081'. MARGARET VIRGINIA FLETCHER, daughter of Ellen (Gordon) Fletcher (754), born in Norwegian Gulch, Mont .• Jan. 6, 1872, married, June 2, 1890, Archibald George Macdonald, of Revenue, Mont., formerly of Nova Scotia. Children: 1197. William iltlurdock Fletcht·r. l 198. Jolm Li'nco/11. Book III. Historical and Biographical. AND now, dear reader, that we have got through with the tables and the data of our gcneological work, I propose in this third book to communicate with you familiarly and, as far as may be, conversationally. ..:ihall I begin as if I were No. 1 instead of No. 242? Not really, only in appear ance at first sight. I was born and reared in that one-story brick house on the east side of the old north and south stage road of Windsor county, Vt., .half a mile south of Felchville, in the southeast corner of Reading, where the old road to Cavendish branched off westerly. It was the house my father, Deacon Silas Bowen (No. 112). when a youth, had helped his father, Daniel (No. 67), to build, about 1812. In the east room of this house, between the two windows of the south front, stood the plain old brown desk which had been that of my great grand father, Esquire Silas (No. 49). After his death it had been brought from North Brookfield, Mass., whither it had come from Woodstock, Conn., at the beginning of the Revolu tionary War. Two valuable heir-looms belonged in that desk. The least valuable was the ruler, or rather ferule, significant of school-keeping, and the control of large boys. (A plain ruler served in my day, a century later.) The ferule I speak of (the only one I have ever seen) consisted of a disk about three inches in diameter, with a round handle terminating in a knob. Upon one side of the disk was carved in handsome letters: S. B. The other article kept in the old desk was a thin, square, yellow MS. rudely bound in heavy, grey wrapping paper. An earlier cover (now the inner one) was a sheet of of an old account book, to which I shall refer later. '' Records to be governing to Posterity. Test: SILAS BowEN." Such was the heading crowded into the upper margin GENEALOGICAL DATA of the first page, probably years after the book had been begun. Originally the first line was: "Silas Bowen His Book January y0 28th, 1746-7." Immediately following wa'l a copy of his father's rec ords, beginning: •• Henry Bowen son of Isaac and Hannah was born June 30th pn y° First Day of y., week A. D. I 700." This Henry is our Esquire Henry (36), son of Isaac (23). Both the father and the grandfather of Esquire Silas I naturally located at Woodstock, Conn., not aware that Isaac belonged to Roxbury, Mass. Who Hannah was, and who Isaac's father was, I had no hope, no expectation at least, of finding out. My first light upon our family history earlier than that of the book of Esquire Silas came, at second hand, from Henry C. Bowen of" The Independent," to whom, in 1881, I wrote to make inquiry. He delegated the correspondence to the venerable Royal Paine, who was, in his behalf, col lecting materials for a Bowen Family History. Mr. Paine informed me that Henry, the father of Silas and son of Isaac and Hannah, came, when a youth, to Woodstock from Roxbury; that Isaac was the youngest son of the Henry who came over from Wales with his parents, Griffith and Margaret, when he was five years old; that Henry's wife, Elizabeth, was a daughter of Capt. Isaac Johnson of the Narragansett fight ; but who Hannah (Isaac's wife) was could not be ascertained. He told me, also, of William, a brother of " pioneer Henry," who died about 1686, "a captive Christian slave with the Turks." And he quoted for me from the New England Genealogical Register, July, 186o, p. 219, the fol lowing: "Roxbury May 10 1725. We the subscribers testifie that about thirty nine years past 'Twas reported in this town that Mr. William Bowen late of Roxbury was taken by Turks, and it was proposed to y8 Congregation met at Roxbury A Contribution for his redemption, and the peer lll8TORICAL AND BIOORAPJIICAL. r53 pie went generally to the public box, young and old, but before the money could answer the end &c it was reported that Mr. William Bowen was dead; and the money * * was used tn build a Tomb for the town to inter their ministers * * About the same time Guod ould Mrs. Eliot lay at ye point of death * * and it was al,!reed upon by our heads and Leader that ould Mrs. Eliot for the grate service she had done for the town should be put into sd Tomb "' • be fore the Tomb was finished the good ould gentlewoman wa-1 dead and the first the town admitted into sd Tomb. About three or four years after, our Reverd Father Mr. John Eliot left us (May 20 16go aged 86) and the town ~ycd him in sd Tomb. B.:njamin Eliot was also admitted; and, the knth of last January our Rcverd Pastor Mr. Thomas Walter Died and the Town at their own charge interred him in the Tomb belonging to the Town." Concerning thc marriage of Henry, father of Silas, in Woodstock, Mr. Paine had culled out of the Diary or Dea. John May the following: "1721 Henry Bowc:n Ditto. . to me To 2 Bushels Oats . . o-8-o To I Bush Rye: ...... 0-4-0 2d To I Pound Flax . . . . . 0-1-3 To bringing up cloth 18th . 0-1-g Making bedstead . . . . . o-g-o To Bed cord Waid about 7 lb . . 0-3-4 Carrying Bedstead to Deacon Lions and 3 Bush ¼ Corn to Mill ...... o-1 -o And one Peck Seed Corn ...... o-o-g" Mr. Paine adds: "As Henry was married in May I 721, this was probably his wedding bedstead, and on it wa-1 prob ably born in April 1722 your grandfather Silas who mar ried Deacon Lyon's daughter Dorothy, the sister of Pris cilla who married my grandfather Amos Paine senior. I have often seen Dea. Daniel Lyon." In 1884 all the wives of the Bowen ancestors from Grif.. 154. GENEALOGICAL DATA fith down were well known, !lave only Isaac's Hannah. At this time Qr. E. C: Bo1yc;n received letteri1 'fro111 Edward A. Bowen, which have come into my poi1session, among many papers-materials for the" Bowen Memorial." Herein it ii1 seen how Hannah's parentage was discovered. The will of Mary, widow of Josiah Winchester, of Muddy Riwr (Brookline, Mass.), mentions as heirs the daughters of Han nah Bowen. Herc was a clue, and it has proved sufficient. When I began to make a general collection of our family records, and still later, when I began to compile them for a printed book, I had no knowledge of our Welsh ancestry sufficiently definite and sure to justify me in un dertaking to begin back of Griffith, in Boston, in the winter of 1638-9. Correspondence with Edward A. Bowen, (656) elicited the fact that he had found, in London, documents identifying our Griffith of Boston with a Griffith of London and of Wales, and that he (my correspondent) was diligently and hopefully following up his clues in 1892. So I began to hope that before my book should go to the printer I should have some positive information of our fam ily in Wales. But I had no idea of the God-send in store for us. To Edward Augustus Bowen we owe a debt we can never repay, but which, in proportion to our interest in our remoter ancestry, we shall always profoundly feel. In the beginning of this year (1893) he sent me first a photograph of the petition of Griffith to the House of Lords, in which we have our only autograph of him. A little later he put into my hands for use in this book his sketch of Griffith Bowen in Wales, in London and in New England, and finally he has given us Griffith's College of Arms Pedigree and Coat-of-Arms. THE PETITION. To the Rig/it Hon"1' t/,e Lords Spi,:it11all and Temporal/ As sembled in Ike Higk Co11rt of Parliamt Tke lmm/Jle Petit:'on of G,rij/itlt BO".utll Gmt Most lmmoly Sl1r..uetlt That your Petr in the yeare 1654 for the sume of 525.e 1/JSTORJOAL ~IND BJOGRAPllIOAL. 155 purchased of Phillip Jones Esqr (a Coll: then agt his Mat>') Several Messuages and I.ands in the County of Pembroke, which said Messuages and Land11 hee alleadgc:d hee had· bought in his owne; and other Officers names; as Crowne Lands; Warranting them to bee Crowne Lands, and like wise that your petr should have and 1;.njoy them against the 11aid Phill: Jones and the other Purchasers; and all Claym ing under them. That in the year 1657 The Citty of London obtayned an Order from the then Powers for the pos~ession of the premisses ; they having purchased them of'tlie late King of ever most blessed and glorious memory An° 4° Regni sui. Whereupon your Petr Addressed himself to the said Phill: Jones for Rcleife, who then promised to procure for your Petr a Reprise to Reimburse him the said Purchase money And accordingly the said Phill: Jones obteyned a Reprise in his own name; and received by virtue thereof Severall hundreds of pounds, and putt them in his own Purse, not allowing yor petr one penny thereof. Your petr finding himselfc soe grossly abused preferred his Bill in the High Court of Chancery against the said Phill. Jones, whereunto hee did putt in his Answer, Setting forth many ffalsityes and Vntruths therein; whereby (to gether with his other vnjust and indirect dc:alings) hee pro cured a Dismission of the said Bill to the Com'on Law with out any Costs. Your Petr thereupon brought his acc'on att Law against the said Phill. Jones whereunto he i,leaded ,um assmnpsit and though your Pc:tr clearly proved his promise yet upon a Critical) defect in the Declarac'on; and the Indirect prac tice of said Phill: Jones; your petr was advised to become Non suite therein. After which yo• petr brought another Acc'on att Law ag" Phil: Jones upon the said promise But hee having de layed yor petr severall years by References; and not suffering the Arbitrate"' to make any end, vnless such as m:ght bee for his Advantag~ as well to Keep the Reprise money as GENEALOGICAL DATA the Purchase money of yo• pet• Hee then pleaded the statute of Lymittac'on of .-\i:co'ns alleadging the Suite was not brought within 6 years after the Cause of Action. By Reason whereof yo• pet• is. altogether destitute of Reliefe, either at Law or in Equity, or elsewhere than before your LoPPtl in Parliament assembled. Your Pet• therefore humbly prayeth that the said Phill: Jones may me Convented before yo• LoP1•• and that your pet• may have his Purchase againe with Interest, and such Recompense for his Damages vnjustly Susteyned ever since as in yo• Hono'" Wisdomes shall seeme mec::te. And to that end ; that your LoPP8 would be pleased to heare such Proofes as yo• Pet• can produce for the cleering of the matters herein Specified And that your LoPI"' would As signe him a day for the hearing thereof. And yo• pet• shall dayly pray &c. [STAMP- HOUSEOF g~,/v£/~'.t,('7L, . LORDS.] The above Petition is endorsed : "Griffith Bowen his Petic'on. "Read 10th January 1670. Rejected." I suppose that we who can know so little of the mat ter in question would do well to reserve our judgments. But it does seem too bad that in all Griffith's later years one piece of ill luck should follow another till his load of disappointment was truly pitiful, and calculated to cloud his reason. Three years later another petition· of the same tenure was presented, but we do not know that it was so much as- read-merely put on file. It was endorsed: "1672-3 Mar. 11. Pet. Book." I have made the following copious extracts from the sketch above referred to. Notes.and additions of my own I have been careful to put in brackets. IIJ.'ITOR/C,IL AND BIOGRAPITICAL. 1 57 SOME ACCOUNT OF GRIFFITH BOWEN BY EDWARD AUGUSTUS BOWEN. WooosTocK, CONN., Oct. 1892. I have found t'iree pedigret:s of the Bowens of Slade [ and Burryhead], ea.:h varying from the other in some particu Jars. The College of Arms (London) pedigree begins with Beli-Mawr, King of Britain B. C. 55. In it, it appears that the family name, Rowen, was assumed b!' Griffith ap Owen (36th name in the lint:], from whom it is as follows: Griffith ap Owen Anne da·.1. of · alia~ Bowt:n -J Humphry Bury of Slade, Co: Glamorgan of Hurymarbarth in Co: Devon Philip Bm, en Elizabeth daughter of of Slade af••1 T Hopkin John Vaughan ------Francis Bowen Elen daughter of _____J Thomas Frankleyn Griffith Bowen of Barryhead Co: Glamor~an The pedigrc:e in the Golden Grove Rooks, deposited in the Public Record Offict:, London, begins with Griffith Gwyr (the 26th name in the line], and from Griffith Bowen is as follows: Griff: Bowen of Slade wf: Anne th: Humphrey Bury of Burymarbarth in Devonsh : gu : 3 barrs or: I Phe B: &c: wf: Eliz: In: Hopkin John Vau: I ffrancis Bowen wf: Elen f: Tho: ffranklen. I Griff: B: of Buryshade. aENRALOGJC.AL DAT,1 The following is a copy of a pedigree possessed by the late Joseph )<:iseph, Esq., F. S. A., of Brecon. It was com piled in the latter part of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries, and is sig-ned by "I. H." It was sent me by Rev. J. D. Davies, M. A., Llanmadoc, Glamorgan, Wales. Howen of Slade in the parish of Oxwich, Gower, Gia- manshire Griffith ap Owen _ An. d. of-Berry j of Berrymerbert in Devon ------Phillip Bowen of Slade m. Elsbet d. & heir of Hopkin John Vychan of Kilvay. T Francis__ Bowen J Gr. Bowen md. the d. of Henry Fleming. T , Francis Bowen of Pembroke Wm Bowen of Bristol 16g8 It will be noticed that this pedigree contains one gen eration later than the other two, and its testimony has been a great help in tracing the ancestry of Griffith Bowen of Boston, 1638. Unfortunately, there are in existence no Gower parish or local records of the period during which Griffith Bowen lived; so we cannot tell whether he was born in Oxford or Langenith. Th:.: first that we know of him is that in 1632 he was one of a·• jurie in a survey" of Oxwich and Nich olaston. And in a survey of Penrice, the same year it ap pears that " Griffith Bowen, gent., holdeth freely * * * one messuage called Mount y brough, conteyning about 16 acres***.·• How Griffith Bowen became the owner of " Barry head," "Bury-shade," or" Buryhead" is not known. 1/J.'ITORl • Lecbford•• Note Book. Tnuu,aettoD8 of the Mui. Anttquarlan Society, 01 • :?hl:.~ Town Records :Ind Report Jffl, p. a 1//STORIO,JL AND BIOOR,IPJ/ICAL. 161 was no convenient road, • • They therefore humbly "re• quest that a way may be assigned " • " tt At a Town-meeting held in Hoston, "9:2 mo: 1649 Mr Bowin & Petter Oliver is chosen for perambulation at Mudye River."• This is the only instance we know of Griffith Bowen being appointed to office during hi!! stay in New England, and it is the last record we have of him before his depar ture to Wales. He must have sailed for England soon after this, taking with him, probably, his wife, the younger children and the two older sons. His name next appean in a survey of GoW<;r Wa11i cana, in 1650, as a "Freeholder" in the "Parcell Clase." "The same for a tenem in the hands of Griffith Bowen"t Griffith Bowrn was a witness to a clecd, Dec. 17, 1650, by which his father-in-law, Henry Fleming, conveyed to. Col. Philip Jones "two parce11s of land in the liberty of Swansea."§ In "Docket Book No. 1, 1647 to 1654, Glamorgan," deposited in the Public R,·cord Office, London, is this entry [ disclosing the whereabouts of Griffith's two sons]. "Fines lcavyed & acknowledged this Se~sion Betweene Phillip Jones Esq Pit Griffin Bowen ffrancis Bowen & Will iam Bowen deforc. of ten[ements] in Lanmadoc." [Fine, h<'re. refers to that legal fiction whereby real estate is bought and sold without a deed, by a process in open court.] The Commissioners of Customs farmed the excise (Nov. II, 1652) of Glamorgan, Carmarthen, Pembroke and. Cardigan to Griffith Bowen and Robt. Williams, for one year, at £270. l [Collection of Internal Revenue awarded best bidder.] Afterward (in 1660-1 ?} " Griffith Bowen gent" ad- OUR IWWE.V8. dressed a petition to the I .ord I lii.:h Tre;1surer of Eni.:land * * in which he states that at the instance of the "Rii.:ht Honolilu Charles Lord Gerrard of Hrandon " he was im prisoned at "Southwarke", because while collector of customs at the "Port of Swansey" by his account for the last quarter o( the year there appeared to he a balance of £388. 4s. due the Commissioners of Customs, which sum had been "returned vp" to London by Bills of Exchange, but before the Bills of Exchange were due, Lord Gerrard pro cured an order that the money should be paid ovef to him. This the petitioner refused to do unless he first received a "legal discharge" from the Commissioners of Customs, to whom the money was payable, and to whom he had given a Bond of £500 for the "true performance of his office." This discharge Lord Gerrard agreed to procure for him; whereupon he came up to London to pay over the money; but instead of receiving the discharge from Lord Gerrard, he was put in prison. In conclusion, the petitioner states that he is ready to pay the £388.4,;. if h•· has given him a legal discharge from the Commissioners of Custom~; that he doi:s not wish to run a risk of having to pay twice over-once to Loni Gerrard and again to the Commi~sio111:rs of Customs.* How long Griffith Bowen was imprisoned, and what were the conditions of his dischari.:i: have not been discov ered. [If our ancestor was cautious beyond reason in the above matter, we may say. in excuse, that "a burnt child is afraid of the fire," observing that Griffith is at this time al ready "in hot watt:r" through Col. Jones's machinations exhibited in the petition to parliament.] [TJie particulars of the troublesome purchase from Col. Philip Jones, May 30. 1654, I heri: omit, they being already indicated in the pt:tition to the House of Lords. I quote the referenci:s:] Close Roll 1654, Part ,. Jones & • Excbequer-'Bllhl :3 Jlln, 12 year Charle,, II ltJIIO.J. Glamo1'lfllll Pub• .Kee OIi'. Lond. Jfl-"ITORIC'.-IL ANIJ IITOORM'll/OAL, 16.~ Bowen; also Bills, Answers, &c., Charles II, Pembroke No.:?, (1661) Pub. Rec. office, London. Chancery Proceed ings, Mitford, Bdle, 1;1, No. 17, Pub. Rec. office, London. Records House of Lords London, 1670, 167:2-3. While living in "Swansey" :20th July, 1661, Griffith Bowen executed a formal surrender to the King of the property he bought of Col. Jones. He did so "in pursuance of an order made by the Lords * "' and for other consid erations,"~ one of which may have been due to what fol lows: On the 19th August, 1661, "The King * "' by ad· vice of the Earl of Southampton, High Trea11urer of Eng land * * and Lord Ashley, Chancellor of the Court of Ex chequer," granted and devised unto his "beloved subject, Griffith Bowen, All that water ~rain mill in Milton," in the County of Pembroke, "of the yearly rent of X 11 All that fulling mill there • • And all buildings structures barns stables orchards gardens curtillages mill dues tolls soc commodities whatsoever to the said mills or either of them in anywise belonging or appertaining To have and to hold • * from the fea.<;t of the Annuciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary la."t past * * for the term of 3 I years thereafter Paying therefor to us and our successors xj 11 • vj• . viij• 1• at the feast.; of St. Michael the Archangel and the Annunciation of the Bkssed Virgin Mary." t On the 6 th Feb., 1664, Griffith Rowen, of Swansey. gentleman, brought a suit in Chancery against Griffith Bowen of Cary, gcntlcman, and Matthew Griffith of Cardi gan, gentleman, in which he asked, in part, for an injunc tion to restrain the defcn.dants from proceeding to collect a judgment of £7 and costs, which he claimed had been obtained by collusion, until "the matters concerning the samc be heard and determined in and by this honorable court of Chancery, or in the said Great Sessions." t OUR BOWENS. On the 7th April, 166g, "Griffith Bowen, sometimes of New England, now resident in London * * in consid eration of a contract of marriage now consumated l t· tweene Isaac Addington of Boston in New England Chirurgeon, [surgeon] & my daughter Elizabeth Bowen * * confirme vnto my sonne Isaac Addington aforcsajd All my right interest and title in two parcells of land scitt uate in Boston at present in occupation of Capt. William Davis • * one parcell being three quarters of an acre, lying neere to the dwelling of M• Jacob Elliott * * the other parcell (about half an acre) lying something distant from the land a~oresajd." * "For the more cleare and full confirmation of the premises" Griffith Bowen "nowc resident in the City of London sometime of Boston in New England" gave, 28 March, 1671, Isaac Addington a second deed to the two parcels of land in Boston. " t On and about 16 December, 166g, "Griffith Bowen of St. Saviours Southwark in the County of Surrey'' brought suits in Chancery against Francis Bowen, John Bowen aT d Edward Wooldridge. II In his complaints he states that "in 1662, living with his family in Swansey, and having urgent business that re quired his presence at the city of London," he deposited in the hands of Francis Bowen, his son, "then of Swansey, now of Pembroke" * * valuable papers and personal estate. He went to London, and "continuing there longer than he expected, was wholly unprovided of monies, and then but a stranger in London, and not knowing whom to have recourse for the loan of £100, did make his application unto John to Bowen of Swansy a kinsman who was then also in Lon don that he would use his interest with one Edward Wooldridge, a Scrivener," with whom John Bowen had placed "Nehemiah his son" an apprentice, for procuring a • Sull'ollc County !)eeds, Boeton. Mato&. Lib. II, p. 1:. t Bulrolk County Deeds, Boat.on. .Ma8&, Lib. 7. p_, Ill:!. I Cbancei Procee Isaac's mother, llt't Elizabet'· Johm1on, hai1 been dead three years. (Of his step-mother, Susanna Heath, we know almost nothing.) The Lieutenant's oldest daughter, Elizabeth, had married Edward Morris and i1ettled down in Roxbury only a few months before her mother's death in August 1683. She alone of the children is married. Her two older brothers are pioneers in \,Voodstock, Henry twenty-seven and John twenty-four. They wish to build the cage bdore catching the bird. Margaret is eighteen. In two year:; she will marry Joseph Bacon and settle in Woodstock. Abigail is sixteen. She was thirteen at her mother's death and probably went to live with her sister Elizabeth, and so she will go unmarried to Woodstock with her sister, Mrs. Morris, in 1689 and in 1fi90 will draw lot No, 34. There she will marry Nathaniel Aspinwall, and pa-.s her life thereafter in Woodstock. All the family of Lieut. Henry, i10 far as our acquain tance goes, went sooner or later to Woodstock, save our progenitor Isaac, who at Woodstock's settlement i;eemed little likely to be the ancestor of the Woodstock Rowens. "Husbandman" Isaac of Roxbury cannot be over looked. He makes no great show in public records, but see his family. Three of his sons head, each, a notable line of descent. The eldest, Henry, was father to Esq. Silas and Captain Matthew, respectively the heads of the two great branches of our Bowens now extant and known; Isaac begins the Bowen-Prentice line, to which the Bowens of Charlestown, N. H., belong; and Penuel was grandfather of Bishop Nathaniel Bowen of South Carolina. It would not be just to Hannah, the mother of these sons, to give her no credit for their quality. She was no ordinary woman, nor was she of an ordinary family, Evi dently she was of the same family that produced Rev. Elhanan Winchester, a distinguished Baptist divine of Phil J.delphia, who entertained and promulgated original and liberal ideas looking toward the final restoration of all mankind. He was born in Brookline, Mass., in 1751.· The llJRTOIUC.-1/, AND /1/00RAPIIICAJ.. 181 unusual name of Elhanan was already in the family, for Josiah, one of the sons of Isaac and Hannah, married Mary, daughter of Elhanan Winchester. How Isaac'!! Hannah was found to be Hannah Win chester has been already mentioned, Further details may not be without interest. A postal card from F,, A. 8. (with a post mark 6-26 84) directed to Dr. E. C. Bowen, has the following: This A. M. I found in Suffolk Co. Prob. Court Records, Vol. 26, pp. 168,200,389, Vol. 27, pp. 194-5, 206-7, Vol. 28, 153-4, (settlement of est. of Josiah Winchester, of Brookline): "To Hannah Bowen deceased or her heirs £164.4.1" Dated June 2, 1729. "Mary, Jos' wife leaves Sarah Bowing her "great platter and warming pan." A scrap among- the collection of papers of Dr. E. C. B. wit:,out date or signature amplifies the above information : "Among claims allowed arc to Isaac Howen £6. * "' 1728-9, •I do hereby order and assign all the housing and lands of the said J. Winchester deceased unto the said Amariah and Elkanah Winchester (Josiah Winchester, jr., the eldest son being deceased, and his representatives minors) to have and to hold, possess and enjoy the: same, with all the members and appurtenances thereof unto them the said A. and El. \V. their heirs and assigns forever (sav ing that their mother Mary Winchester widow of the said deceased her right of dower therein for term of life) they, the said A. and El. Winchester paying unto their brothers and sisters or their legal representatives, viz: to the heirs of Josiah Winchester,jr., aforesaid deceased as his double por tion 328£-8-2 to Hannah Bowing deceased or her heirs and Mary Hovey wife of Caleb Hovey or any of their legal representatives the sum of 16~£ 4- 1 being their * * single shares of ½ parts of and in their said father's real estate and at death of mother." * * In the Roxbury Church Records, llnder the head of "Persons admitted to full communion," we find as follows of Isaac and Hannah : 182 OfJR BOWENS. •·Nov. 1703, Isaac Bowen [he having been] Dismissed from y'" Church at Framingham." "May 1706, Hannah Bowen wife of Isaac Bowen."' Isaac began his family life in Framingham, leasing land of Mr. Danforth. His father, still a strong and active man of sixty-five years, was managing the Roxbury farm to which Isaac probably returned after four years at Fram ingham. Three years later the homestead was deeded to him, not in fee simple, but to become absolutely his only at the death of his father. Thus he was tied to Roxbury for eighteen years, till 1724. Meantime Hannah had died, and in 1720 he had married Mrs. Elizabeth Tucker. Soon after coming into full possession of the homestead, it would seem that he sold it; for he had removed to Stoughton be fore 1727, when and where he died. I have not learned that his grave in Stoughton has been discovered. Before Isaac's second marriage, our Henry, his eldest son, had perhaps gone to Woodstock, where he married in 1721. The two oldest daughters, Hannah and Mary, were at the time of their father's second marriage respectively eighteen and sixteen years of age. One other daughter was living, Sarah, three years old. Mary, at her marriage, eight years after wards, probably took Sarah, then fatherless, to her own home in Newton. The three boys at home were : Isaac thirteen, Josiah nine, and Penuel five. 0 Esq. Henry, like his mother, died young, she when thirty-nine, he at fifty-eight. He must have inherited some delicacy or defect from her, which in turn passed over from him to his daughters, all of whom died in infancy or child hood. We may be sure that Henry took after his mother. He certainly did not resemble his grandfather, the Lieuten ant Dr. George Aus,tin Bowen in his scientific examina tion of the bones of his ancestors found here a marked con trast: "Esquire Henry was evidently a tall, slim man, not so rugged a,; his (grand]father, but of a more intdlectual character. His skull denoted a man of great intellectual powers-in size, in the facial angle, in the character of the J/JSTOR/C.4.L A.VD BIOGRAl'HIC.4.1- 183 eye sockets, and the set of the jaw. He must have been a good looking man as far as we can judge from these indi cations." In intelligence and culture our line took a decided up· ward step with Esquire Henry. And for more reasons than one we have to give much credit to Hannah Win chester. Nor was she quickly forgotten. Observe how her name became the special favorite for generations fol lowing. "Henry Bowen and Colonel Thomas Chandler'' were the first Repres,·ntativcs of \Voodstock to the General As sembly of Connecticut. They were chosen Sept. 12, 1749. Up to this date \Voodstock was a town in Massachusetts. Jt had been with Roxbury and Hoston in Suffolk Co. till 17 3 1. Then, Worcester Co. Mass. being formed. it became a town of that County. Now (1749) it came into Wind ham Co., Conn., (where it has remained) having voted to secede from Massachusetts and come under the jurisdic tion of Connecticut. It certainly looks as if our Esq. Henry was a leader in this secession movement. But as long as the thing is done, and as there was no bloodshed, it will be best to forgive him. He may have known some better reason than the one that has been transmitted tc- us. "The ta.xes in Connecticut were less burdensome." Esq. Henry did not, like several of the old leaders, take the conserva tive ground of loyalty to the mother colony. Do we sec something of \,Velsh independence therein? The family record, just as kept by Esq. Henry, has fortunately come down to us, copied by his eldest son, Esq. Silas, into the Record and Memorandum Book of the latter. The old book is open before me: "Henry Bowen Son of Isaac & Hannah Bowen was born June 30 th on y" First Day of y •· week A. D. I 700. "Margaret Davis Daughter of Matthew & Margaret Davis born February y" 7th A. D. 1699. •'Silas Bowen Son of Henry & Margaret Bowen w~ Ol'R /: born April y Seventh on Saturday morning Annoque Domini lj.:?2. "Matthew Bowen Son nf I Ienry and l\lar~aret Bo\\'en, was born Octoba }' •· 22 '"1 on Thii-sday Evening ,\nno. Dom. lj:q. ·•Hannah Bowen the Daughter of Henry & l\[ar gan:t Howen, was born ,\ug-ust y •· 9 t.h \\'cdne,Jay Ev"" AD 1727. Deceast ,\ugust the 21't Anno. Dom. li.:?i "[sa.ac Bowen Son of Henry & l\fargard Holl'en was born August th,; 4 th On Sabbath Day morning- :\nno. Dom. 1728. "Hannah Howen jun Daug-htcr of I lenry and :\far garet Bowen born January the 27 th at noon on \Vedncs day A. V. li31. Dec,·ast August the 2ith A D li39· "Marg-aret Daughter of Henry & ;\[arg-aret Bowen i,·as born April the 12 th on :\fonclay noon A D. Ii 36. Deceast February y'" 13 th :\. D. 17.p, on Satu;day Ev". "John Bow1.:n Son of Henry and Margaret Bowen was born l\fay the Ii th A. D. Ii-P-" Thus stood ( errors of copying excepted) the earliest family record extant in our tribe. Among the possible errors of copying is the omission of the first member of the double dating of Silas' birth. I conjt·cture it origi11:1lly read: April y •· seventh, on Saturday morning-, in the eig-hth year of his majesty's reign, Annoque Domini I i22. \Ve shall return to Henry ll'hen we have duly attended to his brothers and sisters. Of the latter little rcmains to be said. Mary marricd Capt. Thomas Clark, ofXell'ton, the year following her father's death. Probably she took with her to Newton (as J have said) her young sister Sarah; for in I 729 Capt. Clark wa~ appointed her guardian. :\fary Clark and Sarah Bowen arc mentioned (as we have scen) in the will of their grandmother, Mary Winchester. Isaac, jr.. the second son of Isaac (23). married Jerusha, daughter of Capt. Thomas Prentice of ;xcwton. They set tled in Woodstock, and reared their children there. The two sons were Prentice and Charles. Prentice went early to lfl8TO//IC.-lf, .ISIJ IIJOIJ/UJ•JIJC.11,. 185 New York city, where he married and took up his perma nent abode. He was a commissary of the army in the revo lutionary war. I le had four or tive children, one of whom, Charks, was reared liy his Vncle Charles ( ;9). He sl'ttled in Charle,town, N. H ., and his de.;ccndanb .,f our day we arc so fortunate as to fin CHRONOLOGICAL RESUME: 1722 Date of birth 1746 " first marriage age 24 1749 " " first public office 27 1752 " reformation of calender 30 1757 " father's death " 36 1762 " death of mother and wife 40 1764 " second marriage .. 42 1770 " being selectman 48 1773 " being representative " 51 1775 " " r.:moval to Brookfield (probably} " 53 I 778 " " burning of his malt-house 56 J780 " " death of Elisha at sea " 58 1788 " marriage of Daniel " 66 1790 " death 68 CAPT. MATTHEW AND A LINE OF HIS DESCENDANTS. We have now reached that point where the two chief branches of our Bowens divide. It is the branch of Capt. Matthew that has stayed in Woodstock. To this branch (see tables p. 6, and p. 24-), and be cause of its home-keeping, we are under great obligations for our knowledge of our Bowens earlier than Esq., Henry. Henry Chandler Bowen, a great grandson of Capt. Mat thew Bowen, inaugurated the series of investigations which recently have been pushed, as we have seen, by his son, Edward Augustus Bowen. As the Matthew branch has its own historian, our present work will deal with it only cursorily (for the bene fit of our own branch} in connection with the careers of two or three representatives of our day. "Henry Chandler Bowen, born at Woodstock, Conn., Sept 11, 1813, was educated at the district school and academy there, and at the academy of Dudley, Mass. When sixteen or seventeen years old, his father, George Bowen, made him clerk in his store. It was a general, old fashioned country store, in which was also the postoffice. [Henry C's. grandfather William, son of Capt Matthew, OCJR BOWENS. had the same store and postoffice and tavern.] When about twenty, Henry C. went to New York and entered the employ of Arthur Tappan & Co., dry goods and silk merchants, where he remained five years. Then he estab lished the firm of Bowen & McNamee, silk and fancy dry goods. The firm was afterwards changed to Bowen, Holmes & Co. To this firm the panic preceding the war of Secession was disastrous. Bowen, Holmes & Co. failed, and went out of business. "Some years before, Mr. Bowen and several other young merchants established The New York Independ ent. One proprietor after another sold his interest to Bowen, Holmes & Co., and at the time of the outbreak of the war, they were in possession of the paper. From 1861 Mr. :Bowen has given his entire time to its interests, except whiJe:be was collector of internal revenue; and about 1864 or 1865 he became sole owner. •• President Lincoln appointed him collector of Internal Revenue for the Third District of New York. (The district embraced a large part of the city of Brooklyn.) President Johnson removed him because The Independent did not support the President in his "policy." "Henry C. Bowen married, June 6, 1844, Lucy Maria Tappan, a daughter of one of his former employers, Mr. Lewis Tappan. "Soon after his marriage he built a house in his native village, and has since spent every summer in Woodstock. He has been much interested in all public and private im• prc;avements in Woodstock, and has done what he could to further them ; many of them he initiated. "During the Fremont and Buchanan campaign, Mr Bowen organized a mass meeting on Woodstock Common, and had some of the most distinguished speakers in the Republican ranks to address it. 1Mass meetings and Fourth of July celebrations have been held ever since; the latter regularly since the first one, at which President Grant was present. Of late years all these meetings have HISTORICAL AND BIOGR✓JPll/0,tL. been held at Roseland Park, beside Woodstock Pond. This park is the gift of Mr. Bowen to the people of his native town." (E. A. B.) The only brother of Henry C., viz: Edward Eaton Bowen (308) died in Brooklyn a few days after his pastor and intimate friend, Henry Ward Beecher. He had been a deacon of Plymouth Church, greatly respected and be loved. At his Golden Wedding, the year before, "Mr. Beecher alluded, before the congregation, in the most tender terms, to the many acts of kindness, he and his wife had received at the hands of the jubilee pair." Edward E. began life in the very footsteps of· his father, George, and his grandfather, Willia~-a farmer, a merchant, and the postmaster of Woodstock. The post office was for forty-five years in the family, in three genera tions. At twenty-one he married. At thirty-five he removed to Brooklyn and became first a dry good-; merchant, and later a banker. "He was a man of fine physique, of sterling in tegrity, of gentle and amiable disposition; and was deeply attached to his home." He died suddenly, at seventy-one, of heart disease, and he was buried in Woodstock. His son, Dr. George Austin Bowen (667), has come into political prominence. He was the Republican nom inee for Lieut. Gov. of Connecticut in 1888, and since then he has become Master of the State Grange, Patrons · of Husbandry. At ten years of age he removed with his parents to Brooklyn, and in 1862 (twenty-one years old) he received his degree of M. D. from the University of New York. "He improved the excellent opportunities olferedhim in the practice of his profes!'ion, and was soon made secre tary of the county medical society. * * He easily con nected himself with dispensary and hospital work, which afforded him many opportunities for the study of patho logical anatomy. in which he established a leading reputa tion. "Loss of health compelled him in the spring of 1873 to retire to his farm at Woodstock for a six month's va- OUR ROIVENS, cation. Health, however, returned slowly, and it was sev eral years bcfore he could be warranted in returning to the active labors of his profession. In the meantime his agri cultural tastes had ~aincd an ascendancy, and he never re turned to the city to live, but made his medical education serve as a basis for scientific research, which has brought him in association with the leading minds and workers of the day. He has lectured extensively through the New England Statt:s, and has earned a reputation for general learning rather than excellence in one specialty. "He was mainly instrumental in establishing the Wood stock Farmers Club, of which, when reorganized as Sen exet Grange, he was made master. He is president of the Connecticut Dairymen's Association, a director of the Connecticut J crsey Breeders' Association and president of thc Patrons' Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Hartford. •• His home in Woodstock is a quaint structure above one hundred years old, large and airy, vine-clad and sur rounded by trees and shrubbery of his own planting, and commands cxtensive and charming views in all directions." (From printed notice.) Of Henry C. Bowen's sons I must mention at least Edward Augustus, Clarence Winthrop, and John Eliot. The last (662) died, greatly honored and beloved, at the age age of thirty-one. That very week he was to have been marricd. The Rev. Dr. Wm. Hayes Ward, one of the editors of The Independent said at the funeral : '' I loved John Bowen. Two households loved him dearly. Many households loved him. * * I knew him from his infancy. During the last half dozen years I have been associated with him in the same office. Some of you knew him as an earn:::st, devoted student-so de voted that when the ordinary time for study had passed and he was entering upon his life work, he could not give up his studies, but in the midst of his daily work found timeto carry them on at one of our chief institutions. From that college and from the one at which he had graduated IIISTORICAL .-IND RIOOR.-ll'J/ICAI,. 199 he received high honors. [He was Doctor in Philosophy]. But I do not speak now of his intellectual character and literary achievements, though he made a mark rare for young men as an author, as a writer of prose and of verse. * * • We do not look to that as showing what the man was whom we love. That which makes manliness is not there. That which makes fame is there. but many a man has fame whom no man loves. I have known many young men in my life, and have been intimatc:ly associated with many, but I can truly say that I cannot recall one young man that surpassed him in the truly manly qualities which make it worth while to have lived, and safe to die. To me, he was always a model of what is right, true and pure. How few then.· arc that can claim that e.xquisite purity! I have never met a man in my life who was so strict, so careful, so exact that what he said and what he did should t,e measured by the absolute square of trL·th. That was the chief mark of his character. It was some thing which stood above the intellectual, and rose into the lofty plane of the moral. He was a serious, manly person. Some of you knew him in his more playful . moments-in his social life where no man was more free, delightful, en joyable than he. • * * John Bowen thought seriously on large topics-the interests of the world and of the king dom of God. I know that he hoped and expected before long to connect himself with the church. I know that my love for him is based on a character which was the right eousness of God, the love of God and the love of man. That unselfishness which our Lord and Master came to teach-if any man in my experience and association had that character, that man was our dear friend who lies here before us." Clarence Winthrop Bowen, Ph. D., an older brother, is one of the main pillars of The Independent. Edward Augustus Bowen we have already come to know. Captain Matthew (50), the great grandfather of Henry 200 OUR BOWEN8. C., and Edward E., was personally engaged ii, the Revolu tionary War; as was his younger son Griffith (sixteen years old). " Matthew was captain of a company in Col. Samuel Chapman's regiment, Gen. Tyler"s Brigade; and his company received pay for • Servis Don • in the expedition against' Rhod isaland' in August and September 1778. "Griffith, son of Capt. Matthew Bowen, baptized 27th January, 176o, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and died of camp fever on Staten Island, New York Bay, in 1776." (E. A. B.) Esq. Silas (49) was not personally in the war, as he was fifty-three years old when it broke out, and as he was not a military man either by nature or profession. His three sons were all in it, one way and another. The oldest, Henry (66), was already married and had four children. The first we hear of Henry, (Deacon Henry as we call him) is the following memorandum of his father: "·May 26th, 1766. Henry Bowen went to Lebanon (to] live at Mr. Hides, &c." What Henry did in Lebanon un der the head of" &c." in his father"s use and intent of the expression is not clear. But one thing we are sure of, he fell deeply in love ; and some two years after the above date, though but nineteen years old, and the bride but six teen, he marri~d Lydia Fowler. The war record of Henry Bowen has been furnished me by Dr. Aurelius Bowen of Nebraska City, the younger son of Dr. Silas Bowen, who has copied for me, from themilitary archives of Connecticut, the following: "Third Regiment, Gen. Putnam's, 1775. Regiment raised on the first call for troops by the Lel,!isla ture at special session of April-May 1775. It was re cruited in Windham county, with one company from New London county. Marching in May, by companies, to the camps forming around Boston, it was stationed, during the siege, in Putnam's centre division at Cambridge until ex piration ofterm of service, December 10, 1775. In July it was adopted as continental. A detachment of officers and men were engaged at Bunker Hill." HISTORICAL AND BIOOJUPJJICAL. 201 He adds: "Danforth Bowen and Henry Bowen were in the Seventh company, and are mentioned together as privates. John Bowen is mentioned as a privat•.: in the Fifth company." This John may be No. 55 the young• est brother of Silas and Matthew. He was then about thirty-five years old. Wc do not hear of him later. Tradition has it that Deacon Henry served two years under General Putnam; but, a year and a half after the war broke out, he is found at home in West Woodstock, with five little children. Let me quote from the eulogy on Dr. Silas. "In the summer of 1777 the advance of Burgoyne's army caused serious apprehensions. H~ progress had been checked at Bennington, and a ray of hope tinged a cloud of anxiety. October followed August-Saratoga was ours! The news spread. One express rider caught it from the lips of another; and every towr that could boast a gun swelled the echo to the towns beyond. . It so hap pened that when the news of the victory reached Wood stock, the physician and clergyman of the parish were at the house of Deacon Bowen. The children were out on a little eminence at play. [Levi, Isaac and Silas.] They heard the distant gun-:--listcm:d, and an.other came booming along. The older boys said there had been a battle, and kept on their play; but Silas, then three years old, ran into the house to tell mother. The mcn rushed out of doors, and the air was reverberating with the distant though rapid discharges. The whole party grew hilarious. Deacon, Doctor, Minister and all shook hands, shouted and hur rahed." Wc do not know how long Henry served his country, but we know something more significant: He was ready, notwithstanding his family of little ones, to answer promptly his country's first call. The military record of- Daniel, from the Connecticut Archives, was also copied for me by our Dr. Aurelius. "Daniel Bowen enlisteti April I, 1777, in Capt. Manning's Company of Second Regiment 'Connecticut Line.' Dis- 202 OUR BOWEN& charged, April, 188o. Regiment raised early in 1777 for the New Army or 'Connecticut Line' recruited at large throughout the State. Ordered to assemble at Danbury, in April, preparatory to taking the field, and soon after went into camp at Peekskill. Served during the summer and fall of '77, along the Hudson, under Putnam. Ordered November 14,th to join Washington's army in Pennsyl vania, and on December 8th engaged in the sharp action of Whitemarsh where the Regiment lost a number of of ficers and men, killed and wounded. Wintered at Valley Forge '77•'78, and present, July 28th following, at battle of Monmouth. Assigned to 2nd Conn. Brig., Huntington's, at Camp White Plains; Wintered '78-'79 with the division at Redding. Served on east side of the Hudson in Gen eral Heath's wing during o~tions of '79. Wintered '79- 'So at Morristown; and served on the outposts." It was the youngest of the three Bowen brothers of the Revolution who lost his life in the sacred cause. Two and a half years before the war, " 1772 Oct. 8," writes his father among his memoranda, "Elisha Bowen went away to live with Mr. Enoch Brown, Boston." Then, two years later: !' 1774, Septz' 10th Elisha came home and stayed till 17th of January next." How Elisha chanced to have such a vacation and leave ofabsence from Boston is plain when we recall the date of the enforcement of the Boston Port Bill, closing to trade that harbor, and paralyzing the business of the city. He re turned to Boston just before the outbreak of the war, and may have been present at the battle of Bunker Hill, ac cording to our traditions. Returning to his father's memoranda we read: "February 1776 Saw Elisha Bowen at Watertown the last I see him in his 21 year-went to sea next winter." He went to sea. then, about the beginning of 1777. But this was not his fatal voyage. E. A. B. has found in Bos ton "Woodstock Deeds, vol. 6., p. 7.," proofofhis presence there;'March· 10, 178o. In the spring or summer of this HISTOBIC.4.L aD BIOGRAPHI0.4.L. 203 year he shipped, in some capacity, on the brig Fame, Thompson commander, a privateer, apparently. Cruising among the W I. islands in October, it was shipwrecked on the coast of Martinique, and every soul on board perished save only their surgeon. G. Clinton Williams, Esq., of West Woodstock village, says in a letter (May 7, '91.) •• Dea. Henry (son of Silas) lived on Bowen Hill, overlooking Bunggy Brook and an ex tensive valley. He was one of my great-grandfather's dea cons (Rev. Ste. Williams), and was apparently held by him in much esteem, judging from diaries of the family at that time. Dea. Ezra Hammond venerable but still active at 85 yrs recollects him well, and says that after Dea. Henry moved to Eastford, he resigned the office [ of deacon], but occasionally came ht·re on the Sabbath. * * My grand father married Sally Skinner. Her Sister Anna married Capt. John Fowler of Lebanon, a brother of Dea. Henry's wife (as I understand). Capt. John Fowler and wife spent the later years of their life in the house of my father, Judge John Fowler Williams, and died here. * * Rev. Abel Stiles was pastor of the church of Woodstock (Woodstock Hill) (where Henry C. Bowen lives in the summer) till a secession arose. He organized his adherents at Muddy Brook, now called East Woodstock. [Third Cong. Ch.] Dea. Henry was deacon ofthe church in W. W.-the Second Ecclesias tical Society of Woodstock." The old meeting-house is no more, but it is remem bered by Henry Wight Bowen, of Boston, who, about 1833, visited his grandfather Isaac there. He says: •• I recol lect going to church while there, and that the seats in the pews were uncushioned and hinged; that during the prayer all stood, and the seats were turned up; that at the close of the prayer down went the seats with a deafening clatter like a discharge of musketry." Miss Lucy A. Penniman, of West Woodstock, half sis ter of our Samuel Penniman, of New York, and an old friend of Dea. Henry's family, writes me: "Dea. Henry Bowen, OUR BOWEN& late in life, sold his place in Woodstock, and went to live with his daughter, Mrs. Samson [Hannah Bowen], in East ford. A few years before his death, Mrs. S. sold her place to her brother Isaac, with whom he lived until his death." There is still current a story of Dea. Henry's life in Woodstock, which, if not altogether veracious, may possess considerable truthfulness. It is said that, having taken a load of farm produce to Norwich market, he bought, to carry back, a quantity of frozen fresh fish. On his way home he was overtaken by a sudden thaw. It was Satur day night. He would have rested on the Sabbath day, but, to save his fish, he must pursue his journey. For doing this he was disciplined by his church, and deprived of bis office. The story certainly came from ·West Woodstock, where it is now discredited. It is probably true, ~ far as the traveling on Sunday to save the fish is concerned. It is in strict accordance with Bowen customs, and good, prac tical sense. We may be equally confident that the sterlmg character of Dea. Henry would have disarmed any bigoted complainant. The tradition is valuable for the true picture of Dea. Henry driving on his sled with his pair of farm horses to the distant city market, and bringing home to sell in Woodstock what, in tum, wu wanted there. Economy calls for a .load both ways. What a pity we have no characteristic traits, no sto ries, no personal acts, to relate of Lydia-the better half of the deacon, for aught we know. It has been said of Dr. Silas Bowen, that he owed his best gifts to his mother. We must have inferred from her children that she was· no ordi nary woman. Hers was a long life, judged by.its large ac complishment: a mother at seventeen, bearing her twelfth child at forty.five, and dying at fifty-three. She might not live to see her children achieve distinction. Dea. Henry did not marry again. His daughter Lydia• was nineteen years old. Lydia did not marry till her younger sister, Hannah, could take her place. And, as we have seen, when Hannah married she took her father to her OWJl. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPDIC,JL. home. There, at length, full of years and blessed with the kindest attentions of Hannah and Isaac, he passed on. CHRONOLOGICAL RESUME. March 9, 1749, birth ...... •. May 26, 1766, went to Lebanon to live. • age, 17 About 1768, married .. ·...... '' 19 176g, Levi born ...... " 20 1775, at the battle of Bunker Hill . " 26 1777, with his family on "Bowen Hill" . " 28 1787, Isaac married, and /u called Deacon, " 38 1797, Dr. Samuel born ...... J. " 48 18o6, death of Lydia, his wife. . . " 57 1813. marriage of daughter Lydia • " 64, About 1814. Dr.Samuel goes to Boston . " 65 1815, marriage of Hannah . . " 66 1815, removal to Eastford . . . •• 66 December 8, 1830, death at Eastford. . " 81¾'. The whereabouts of Daniel immediately before and af ter his three years' service in the Continental Army is un known to us. Before this, we get only one glimpse of him from liis birth up. When he was only fifteen years old he made a brave sally into the world, but he was homesick, and gladly sought again the paternal roof. So I venture to read between the lines of his father's memorandum: "Monday March 34 1766 Daniel Bowen went to live at Mr Fox's, am/ cmne muay th I rh of May r766." The pen and the hand of the last clause are unlike those of the first. The two entries are forced into one. The el~en years from May 17, 1766, to April, 1777, are to us a blank. Sometime in his youth, so his son Silas said, he went to sea. It is not impossible that he may, after a taste of sailor life, have lived in or near Boston; and so have been present. ac cording to our tradition, with his two brothers, at the siege of Boston, and at the battle. of Bunker Hill. But this as yet is not history. It is historical that after the war he bought 300 acres of land in the southeast comer of Reading, Wmd sor county, Vt., and, after clearing a field and building a log 206 OUB BOWENS. cabin, married Mehetable Packard, of Brookfield, Mass., Feb. 21, 1788, "he 37 years of age she 29." For so late a marriage the war was plainly responsible. Not altogether, perhaps. Danid was nothing if not prudent. For three years, it is said, he toiled on his ne\V place before bringing his bride to it. The farm, or tract, was the south half of a square mile, bounded on the south by Cavendish, and on the east• by Windsor, and touching Weathersfield at the point of the southeast corner. The dwelling was in a north and south valley, beside: the North Branch of Black River. The " mowings" were on both sides of this "great brook," and the pastures, and the orchards, on the hilly grounds to the west. Fanning operations began on the north, where the val ·1ey was broadest. The primitive log cabin was east of the brook, and considerably north of the permanent dwelling. About 1812 Daniel built the modest brick house where I was born. I have mentioned that it stood on the east side of the great north and south r,)lld, opposite the junction of the old road from Cavendish with the main road from Spring field to Woodstock. The double barn faced south upon the Cavendish road, and the cider-mi:t was just beyond and west of the barn, at the foot of the orchard hill. There were no scruples in grandfather's day about drinking moderately of hard cider, and I have it from my mother that my grand father 'made and sold cider brandy also, though he was one of the most temperate and conscientious of men. Daniel and Mehc:table were Congregationalists; but their means of grace were not many, or convenient of ac cess. In the middle of the town, five miles distant, there used to be in their day an orthodox meeting-house, of course. But Reading had too many protestantisms for the population.. · There was a good deal of preaching in school houses, here and there, by Congregationalists, Baptists and Methodists, and, later, by Universalists. All the denomi nations proi,-pered so well that no one became strong. When l·was a child, say, in t840, the town was pretty evenly r.li- HllJTORIC.J.L .AND BIOGRAPHIC.AL. vided between Baptists, Methodists and Universalists; and in the little factory village of Felch ville, close beside our farm, there was but one church for three denominations. I remem ber no Congregationalist society in our town. When my father and the nineteenth century were young together, the leading denominational influence in the vicinity was 'that of the Baptist in North Springfield, seven or eight miles south, where Priscilla (Bowen) Cheney had settled some ten years before her brother Daniel had come to Reading. The church of N. Springfield was set off from the parent society, that of Chester, in 18o3, and among the fifty-nine "Constituent Membc:rs" we find our Priscilla. She had marrie;d Waldo Cheney, who had been a soldier at Bunker Hill.and bad come to Vermont about the time Daniel was enjoying the luxuries of Valley f'.orge. Waldo Cheney, so Dr. Aurelius Bowen tells me, was a "Corporal in the 7th Co. of Putnam's reg't., serving from May I Ith to Dec. I 5th, 1775." Priscilla be came the mother of a large and highly respected family. Five daughters and two sons reared families. Huldah, the eldest daughter, married Benj. Page; and their youngest son was the Rev. Emery Page. Huldah's oldest daughter, Lorenda, married Harvey Bigelow, a man held in great honor in my boyhood days. Caroline Page married Jewett Boynton, jr., whose father was one of four brothers who were pillars of the new church of North Springfield; . Two of the four, David and Beman, were preachers. -. ':Beman Boynton was the first pastor of the North Springfield·church, and David Boynton was the first man to preach in the Bal, timore neighborhood, where our Priscilla settled. The house ofJewett Boynton, sr., which was afterwards the home of Jewett,jr., served at first in lieu of a church. I remember well Jewett Boynton,jr., especially as he was pursuading my father to embark in ~e silk-worm business and mulberry tree culture. That must have been about 1836. Jewett Boynton was very prominent in the church-wao; both clerk and deacon. Indeed, he was an enterprising anq enthusias tic man, and he led (about 1838) quite a body of colonists 2o8 OUR BOWENS. from North Springfield and vicinity to Union, Wisconsin. Lucius Page,a brother of Caroline, and a very worthy man, was one of the emigrants. They founded a Baptist church in Union. Jewett Boynton lost his lift: there by an accident: "Instantly killed July 28, 1805, by being thrown from his carriage." Dor~thy, second daughter of Priscilla, married Jesse Clark, one of whose sons, Irving, made a home for his grandmother, in her last years, in the house now owned by my brother J.C. A ynunger son of Dorothy, Che ney Clark, lived awhile, when a boy and before my day, with my father. He was a somnambulist, and his feats were a matter of great astonishment. Another daughter of Priscilla, Theodosia, married Capt. Foster Henry,and was the mother of Rev. Foster Henry, late pastor at North Bennington, Vt. His brother, Hyren Hen ry, of Perkinsville (two miles north of N. Springfidd), had quite a businei;s in manufacturing bobbins out of white birch, and later, in manufacturing soap-stone stoves out of "Hawk's mountain." The two sons of Priscilla who lived to marry wer..: Lo throp and Lucius H. Both belonged to the church of their mother, and both, when advanced in life, emigrated to the west and died there. Neither left a male heir to preserve the name: of Cheney that had grown dear to us. Lothrop lost, in North Springfield, two beloved and accomplished daughters, both school teachers-his only children. Lu cius had one daughter only. She had two children, a son and a daughter, but both have died. Lothrop died in Wis consin, the oldest man in our Bowen Records: "99 yrs, 6 mos & 3 days." Priscilla and Waldo Cheney settled and reared their fam ily in Baltimor.e, a triangular little town, cut off from Cav endish by a mountain range-one scf1ool district-a score of farms and families. It wa.o; two or three miles N. W. of N. Springfidd villlage. There is a little graveyard in Bal timore where probably two or three young children or in- HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHIC.AL. fants of the Cheney family lie buried. A stone with an in scription marks the resting place of their son, who barely reached young manhood. My si!1ter Marcia has copied the inscription : "Oliver Lovell, son of Waldo & Priscilla Cheney, died March 5th 1812, aged 18 years." To Marcia we owe also ·the following from stones in the North Springfield graveyard: "Waldo Cheney died July 31st 1834 aged 85 years." "Priscilla wife of Waldo Cheney died Sept 4 1841 aged 88." It was four years after Daniel's marriage that Je:-11/iha, .with her new husband, Capt. Isaac Gilbert, of Brookfield, Mass., came on and settled scarcely three miles from him, in the town of Cavendish, some eight miles from Priscilla. Jerusha was a sweet and queenly woman, and the mother of a family of unusual intelligence and refinement. One son only lived to marry: Oliver Cheney Gilbert, the young est child, and the inheritor of the old homestead. After the death. of his parents he removed to Uorset, Vt.. w)Jere two of his sisters had settled. Oliver C. Gilbert w~ bom a few days after the death of his cousin Oliver L. CJ.i~: That he took the name shows, besid,:s the ~ct of lively sympathy between the families, that the son of Priscilla was a young man of much promise. · When Jerusha died I was eleven years old, and I was deeply impressed by the extreme grief of Capt. Gilbert, who had to be supported by two men as he came from taking the last look. I remember hearing it said of "Aunt Gil bert" that she was choice in her employment of our English tongue, her words as fitly spoken as if read from a book. This is another pointer to her mother's culture. Herein the Gilbert family still holds its own. Of Jerusha's own brother and sisters we know little. Dorothy (Bowen) Barrett (70) died before her father, leaving one child: Theodosia, who married Calvin Gilbert, of Brook field. .Rufus Barrett, her husband, was probably a son of 2IO OUR BOWENS. Capt Barrett. Why else.should Esq. Silas have made the memorandum: •• 1785 October 26tb, about two o'clock P. M. Captt• Benjamin Barrett Deceast at Brookfield" This was a year and a half before Dorothy's death, and when she was twenty-one years old. Three daughters of Sarah (71) are said to have married in Homer, N. Y., one of them a Mr. McGraw. Nathaniel Huntington Bowen (73) married, in Brook ---.field, a widow with two children. Her name was Thirsa The history of Daniel Bowen, of Reading, is interwoven ~th that of four of Dea. Henry's sons. Isaac (gS), the second soi,, was the first of them to marry. At nineteen be was a man in stature and in independence, and Anna Wight, at sev enteen, was a good match for him. All his life he was a hotel man, as we would say now; tavern keeper they called him then, and to the business both he and Anna were admirably adapted; for they possessed an open, frank, hospitable spirit and manner. But were they not rather reckless and mi gratory? "Isaac was a rolling stone," as his Boston grand-. son says. He lived first in West Woodstock, Conn., where Simeon and Abigail were born. Then, about .1794, he came to be next door neighbor to bis Uncle Daniel Here he abode for: a longer time than perhaps he ever did else where. Here were born the rest of his children, save, per haps, the youngest Isaac's family was contemporaneous with his Uncle Daniel's. The children of both were play mates and schoolmates. Isaac's house (and tavern) was close to the north line of Daniel's farm. Isaac's children were born between 17goand 1807; Daniel's,between 1790 and 1799. Simeon was nearly of the same age as my un cle Dr. Eiisha, and Fordyce, as that of my lather, Dea. Silas. Isaac's Abigail ,vas two years older than J;>aniel's Dorothy. When Isaac removed, his brother Elisha took his place and there and thereupon another family of Bowen children made their appearance. All the sons and daughters of Eli sha Bowen and Fanny Chandler Morris where bom while HISTORI0.4.L .4.ND BIOGRAPHI0.4.L. 2II the residence continued in Reading (1807-1823). Elisha afterwards, but before my recollection, removed to Weathers field, to the foot of Ascutney Mountain. While Isaac was still a neighbor to Daniel, Dr. Silas, not yet married, came to Reading to begin to practice medi cine. Probably he lived at first with Isaac and Anna. He came in 1799. Four years later, he married and settled about three miles north of Isaac. Here, between I 805 and 1820, his eight children were born. Meanwhile, Gen. Dan iel when a youth had lived with his Uncle Daniel. Prob ably it was w~le Isaac was his neighbor, and Dr. Silas was beginning his career of doctor. In 1Sog, about tw<>!yeairs after Elisha had taken the place of Isaac, Gen. Daniel mar ried and settled in the southeast part of Weathersfield. See what a Bowen colony there was in Windsor county, Vt., the first of the century! All, except Isaac, were here when first married, and treated the settlement as-permanent. They came in this order: Priscilla Cheney, 1779; Daniel, her brother, 1785, alone ( 1788, married); his sister, Jerusha Gil bert. 1792; Isaac, their nephew, 1794; Dr. Silas, alone 1799, (married, 1803); Elisha (father of Dr. E. C.), 1807; Gen. Daniel (married), 1809. Except Isaac, who remained only a dozen years, and Dr. Silas, who remained twenty-three years, all lived their lives out in the fraternal circle. Dr. Silas removed to Clarendon, Vt., in 1822. My grandfather, Daniel, in 1829, was the first to die; Priscilla died in 1841; Jerusha Gilbert in 1842; Elisha, 1853; Gen. Daniel, 1859- And now not one of the old homesteads remai~ in the family. Daniel and Mehetable (Packard) Bowen were, both of them, quiet. una.. suming, 'industrious, economical, serious people, and conscientious church members. They were fond of their own home, and shrank from noise and noto riety and excitements, even tht' .,:h religious. They died in the orthodox communion into which, as little children, both, doubtless, were baptized. In politics Daniel was one of the original Democrats (called at first 212 OUR BOWENS. Republicans). If he was thrifty, it was owing to hard work and a careful economy, not to extortion and getting the best end of bargains. He even seems to have carried al truism to an extreme. It was as if he loved his neighbor better than himself. With this went another peculiarity. He would not always insist on his own rights. At least he shrank from going to law for justice. 0ne serious loss he sustained (so Gen. Bowen told me) from a neighbor, who swindled him out of a piece of land, getting grandfather to bid it off at an auction, and pay for it, but holding it him self. I do not know the particulars, only that Gen. Bowen blamed his Uncle Daniel for not seeking and getting satis faction by a law suit. Speaking of altruism, I remember my father relating how sometimes his father would let his horses rest in the pastures on Sunday, and walk five or six miles to church.. Some envious neighbor, I suspect, invented a story, which, when a little boy, I heard from old Mrs. Johnson (step-mother of Uncle James G.). Grandfather's older daughter, Dorothy, when a girl," mowing away" hay in the barn, lost a needle, and grandfather said: "Never mind, Dolly we may find it next winter when we fodder out the hay." Mrs. J. informed me that that was· the origin of the saying: "You might aswell lookf>raneedle in a haymow." The story, doubtless, is so far true that some of the less thrifty neighbors made fun of the good man's habit of small savings. But his thoughtfulness was not always over-nice. Repeatedly, I have heard it said of him that he never had to go out on purpose to bring in an armful of wood, for he al ways took care to carry in wood when he was going in from work. He was careful, but not hard and pinching. The am ple provision for hjs cattle, sheep and swine-their feed and shelter; his wood-house, filled in winter with the year's sup ply of fuel ; his substantial and commodious brick house, all point to a wholesome breadth of practical good sense and liberality. I never heard a breath of his family, or em ployes, or horses being overtasked or stinted. HISTORICAL AND BI0ORAP/IJC4L. 213 His generation saw the last of the home manufacture age. In the loft of the swine house I remember a pile of swingletow, where was also the instrument with which flax was broken. In the: roomy attic of the brick house was a "hatchel" for combing flax; and wheels, small and large, for spinning flax and wool. And there, like the king of them all, stood the big loom. The house was of one story three large rooms and two bed-rooms on the ground-an L on the north side for dairy work and storage. But I must not linger fondly in the scenes of my childhood. Two miles south oi Felchville, on the east side of the road, and on the west side of our• own .. great brook," is a little rustic graveyard; and in it are two modest marble stones which mark the spot where were buried Daniel and Mehetable. (There, also, rest in peace my father and my mother.) High over them rises the precipitous peak of "Little Ascutney." CHILDREN OF DEACON HENRY. The twelve children of our patriarch are all associated with the revolutionary war. Four were bom before it broke out; then four were born while it was in progress; and four were born after it was over. And it is a curious coincidence that the three more public and distinguished of the twelve are the last of their respective quartettes. Thus: Levi, Isaac, Abigail and Dr. Silas; Dijah, Elisha, Henry and Gen. Daniel; Lydia, Hannah, John and Dr. Samuel. It would seem that Levi married in West Woodstock, and into one of the leading families there-the Skinner family, but definite particulars are not forthcoming. Mrs. Rich ardson (345) (the historian of the Levi bran,;h), could tell me only that one of Anna's sisters, in West Woodstock or vicinity, married a Mr. Chandler, and another a Mr. Brad ford, a lineal descendant of Gov. Bradford. We seem to get a glimpse of the family a generation earlier in a letter of G. C. Williams, Esq., of West Woodstock: "My Grandfather married Sally Skinner. Her sister Anna married Capt. John Fowler of Lebanon a brother of Dea. Henry's wife (as OUB BOWENS. l understand)." Here are clues; who will follow them up? I am reminded here of some interesting fragments from the Diary of Rev. Ste. Williams, pastor at West Wood stock, furnished by his great grandson, quoted above: " Henry Bowen & his wife taken into the church Sept. 29 177 1 " " Baptized Sept 29 1771 Levi & Isaac sons of Hen ry Bowen." "Baptized Nov 22 1772 Abigail dau. of Henry Bowen " ·oct 30 1775 Silas son " " ·• " June 29 1777 Dijah " " " Apr. 22 1779 Elisha" " Nov. 26 1780 Henry son of Mr. Henry Bowen " Sept 14 1783 Daniel " " " May 27 1787 Lydia dau. " Dea. The admission into the church of the youthful parents, and the baptism then of their two little boys is a picture to be framed in our memories. Levi was two years old; Isaac, four months. The father was in his twenty-third year, and the mother in her nineteenth. Here, also, is our first men tion of Henry as deacon (1787), in the record of Lydia's baptism. Quiet and uneventful lives, seem those of farmer Levi and the housewife Anna in Homer; faithful in spirit to New England Congregationalism under the outward form, as we often see in the West, of Presbyterianism, which is identical with Congregationalism in doctrine· and forms of worship. Levi showed bis radicalism only in being the first of his kith and. kin to take bis life in his hand and emigrate into the far West. In his day the tide of new settlers was toward Vermont. Thither had gone his uncle Daniel and his aunts Priscilla and Jerusha. It looks like a bold and ad venturous push. ,Homer is 150 miles west of Albany, and twenty-five miles south of Syracuse (then scarcely a little village, first settled only six years before). From an agri cultural point of view, the choice of Cortlandt county, N. Y., over Windsor county, Vt., was not .bad. In Homer have lived many of bis descendants, well to do,on well tilled filrms. HISTOJUCAL ~IND BTOGRAPIIICAL. 215 There, to-day, remain none; so far as known, they are few and widely scattered; yet the central portion of New York contains the most of them, and the city of Elmird the only family that promises to preserve our name. At their marriage Levi was twenty-three and Anna twenty-two. He outlived her- twelve years. dying in his eighty-third year. The life of'Anna (Skinner) Bowen and that of Jerusha (Bowen) Gilbert ran closely parallel, thougl to each other .. unknown. They were born, they married, and they died at nearly the same dates, and each had nine children. Shall we recall in this connection that three nieces of Jerusha lived and died in Homer, the datight~ of Aaron Eaton and Sarah Bowen, oblivious on both sides, no doubt: to the proximity of cousins? Next after Levi and Anna we have Isaac and Anna, the latter pair quite unlike the former, in many ways. Isaac married at nineteen, getting the start, by three years, of bis older bruther. The bride of seventeen was the bright and spirited and affectionate daughter of Dr. Simeon Wight, of Bellingham, Mass., when Anna was born, but Jater,ofWcst Woodstock, Conn. Dr. Wight named his daughter Nancy at the christening, but when she grew up she preferred the same name (so she declared) in the form of Anna. Isaac and Anna proceeded at once to the business of their Jives tavern keeping. They were both, as I have said, admirably adapted to it. Of fine physique and winning manners, con fident, hearty and hoi;pitable, why should they not find their life in this calling? They began in West Woodstock, but, after two children had been born here, they removed to Reading, Vt. There was no village of Felchville then, with its two-story brick tavern a quarter of a mile to the north of Isaac's little farm, where probably he built his one-story farm house, with an L. Four children were born here. Leaving Reading about 18o6, his stay in Ludlow and in Cavendish, Vt., must have been short, if he lived in Town send, Mass., when Abigail was married in 1808. Thence he w«;nt to Boston about iS 14 Here he kept a boarding-house 216 OUR BOWBNN. on Union street. It did not prove agreeable, and he soon went to Dighton, where his son Henry kept a store, while he kept the tavern. After a few years Isaac remowd to Ashley, Mass., and thence to New Ipswich, N. H., where he was in 1827, when his youngest daughter, Nancy, mar ried Mr. Foc;ter, a merchant there. Next he was at Ash burnham, Mass., but soon he is found at Eastford, Conn., at the death of his father in 1830. He was keeping tavern in West Woodstock about 1833, where his daughter-in-law, the widow of Capt. Henry, visited him.accompanied by her little children, one of whom, Henry W., of Boston, helps me to these items. The last place at which he "kept tav ern" was at Gloucester, Mass., perhaps about 1838-1840. Isaac and Anna now visited their oldest daughter, Abigail {Mrs Gordon), at Rushford, N. Y. Thence they went to reside with their oldest son, Simeon, at Me-ddville, Penn. Here Isaac died, in 1845, of a cancer in the eye. His son Fordyce came on from the South and took his mother to live with him in Memphis, Tenn., his wife having recently died. Here Anna found a welcome and affectionate h.ome till hei: death, fourteen years after that of Isaac. I have beard so many touching little incidents of the kindness and generosity of both Isaac and Anna, that when their names are spoken their large-heartedness and helpful ness come up to view first and foremost. They gave a ready band to the youngest brother, Samuel, coming to Boston to study for his profession. They had encouraged ~d helped his older brothers, Dr. Silas, Gen. Daniel and Elisha, beginning their careers in Vermont. How freely they spent all for their children and grandchildrcm can never be told. Their descendants recall, with det:p emotion, the fatherly and mothe,rly sacrifices in their behalf and in be half of others. Isaac and Anna are not known to have been at any time Congregational communicants or evangdical in sentiment. Their children generally grew up Unitarians. Abigail, however, married before the family went to Boston. 'J;he HJSTOJUCAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL. 217 sons got their business training in Boston. Isaac's brother Dijah was rearing his brilliant family in the American Athens-the headquarters of the new theology. Isaac's son Henry was prominent in the church choir of Dr. Ware, af terwards professor in the Cambridge Divinity School. Prob ably both families of Bowens attended Dr. Ware's church. (His (Dr. Ware's) successor was Ralph Waldo Emerson.) American Unitarianism wa.~ then in its fresh youth, and it was a power in Boston in those days. One-third of the nine sons of Dea. Henry were brought in contact with the new faith, and did not withstand it. Returning for a moment to Isaac, one thing more inust, in justice to him, be added. Though he lived before the temperance reform was agitated, and when ministers and deacons had no scruples about alcoholic beverages, and though he kept tavern always, where liquors were dispensed, neither be nor any of his children fell into habits of dissipa tion in strong drink. Whether Isaac and Anna ever be longed to any church I have not learned, but of their in tegrity, charity and general goodness, I have learned much. Isaac and Anna sundered in earthly burial, enjoyed a truly united life, and they shall be one in our affectionate remem brance. Dr. Silas ( 100) was of more heroic make, and more am bitious oflearning and intellectual promotion than his broth ers· generally were. A pronounced intellectual and profes sional bent is evident only in him and Dr. Samuel. In Dr. Silas is manifest, with this bent, extraordinary self.reliance and determination. To quote snatches from ·'"the printed eulogy pronounced at his (masonic) funeral: "At the ~e of sixtc:en, with· ten dollars, the only money his father ever gave him, with a scanty wardrobe of homespun, he left home to prepare and educate himself for a higher sphere of 11cSCfulness than that in which he was born." He found an opportunity to make a beginning in Schodack. N. Y., where "he posted books for a merchant in the evening, taught school in the daytime, and, rising before daybreak, studied 218 OUR BOWENS. mathematics and the languages, preparatory to a moming recitation with a class of young men who were preparing for college under the resident clergyman. " While pursu ing his studies, he became acquainted with Dr. Ballantyne, and, through his advice, gave up the idea of going to col lege, though he was prepared to enter. He resolved to study medicine. "While a student in Dr. Ballantyne's office he made the acquaintance of a German scholar, who came to this country a surgeon in the British army, and from him gathered many ideas which he considered ex tremely useful in after life." Eight or nine years after leav ing home (1799) he began his independent career of phy sician and surgeon in Reading, Vt., and four years later he married. For more than twenty years he devoted himself unsparingly to his wide circuit of laborious practice. Six daughters and twc> sons had been born to him. At the age of forty-eight he found in Clarendon, Vt, a less arduous field, and a wider circle of influence. He became known as a temperance reformer all over his State. He enjoyed at Clarendon a long and influential career. He buried there, in 1853, his excellent wife, whom he had married a girl of seventeen, and who had clung to him for fifty years. For three and a half years longer he resolutely prosecutes his profession, when the fancy strikes him that he will go into that great West, of which he has heard so much from his children in Nebraska; he will spend with his children there his eighty third birthday. He does so, but it is his last. He reached the home of his son in Nebraska City on Fri day, the 4th of September. His birthday came on Sunday. He addressed the Sunday school, unconscious that he would attend public worship no more. A slight illness grew rap idly serious, but he said: " I am not sorry I came, what ever the result may be." In a fortnight from his arrival his body was returned to Clarendon. There, with impress ive ceremonies, it was laid beside that of his wife. Dr. Bowen had united with the Congregational Church of ~ng. and both there and in Clarendon he was ·a; gen- HISTOBIO,U, AND BIOGRAPHICAL. 219 erous and hearty supporter of his church. Much more than tjus, he was ever the zealous promoter of philanthropies and reforms, and such causes and societies as seemed to him elevating in their tone. Especially was he an advocate of abstinence from intoxicants, at so early a period as to have to face a storm of popular prejudice; but he lived to see the fruit of his planting. "His characteristics," says his eulogist, may be sum med up thus: Great physical energy and endurance, an in dustrious and abstemious life, a strong. well balanced ·and well informed mind, a self-reliant judgment, an obstihate perseverance, conservative tendencies, a zealous observance of his duties, a scrupulous regard for the rights of others, and a rigid enforcement of his own." Dijah Bowen ( 1 o 1 ). the fourth of the nine brothers, like Dr. Silas, did not hasten to marry. He first proved him self successful in business. A modest tailoring establish ment in Boston grew into a popular furnishing store. Mean time, at twenty-six years of age, he was happily married. Elizabeth (Flint) Bowen was full of strength and vigor and courage and ambition. A large and attractive family of children were born to them, and they altogether were get ting on and up in the world. They had removed from Charlestown into Boston, and become connected with the Second Church, having for their pastor Dr. Henry Ware,jr., a man of rare moral and spiritual and mental gifts. They appreciated keenly their enlarging and happy life. There fell upon them then (1826) a dire calamity, the forerunner of many another. Dijah and Elizabeth had lost in his infancy their first born Henry, and they had given his name to his successor (188). This Henry was now twenty years old-gay, handsome, affectionate, good Care fully dressing one evening he went out as if to make a cal], taking in good part a joke from bis father, and giving his mother a good-night kiss, and begging her not to. sit up for him. She did sit up till past midnight; and when she drop ~ asleep ,in her chair it was to dream that she saw him 220 OUR BOWENS. drowning. She started up .with a shriek-the whole house was aroused, and the mother's alarm became the intense anx iety of all. The police was notified. Friends were called up-it is still a mystery; but his oody was drawn from the water. The shock to the father was such that he could not walk without assistanc-e. It is said that he was never him self afterwards, and at length his business had to be given up. A mild, partial insanity supervened, and finally his body, too, was drawn out of the water. He had been care fully provided for in the country. He had reached the age of seventy-five. (I have this history from Mrs. Nancy (Bowen) Davis) (36o). I saw cousin Dijah but once, and I recall scarcely more than that he was a tall well formed man. Two of the five brothers whom I have met were not above the medium height: Elisha and John were light weights in comparison with Dr. Silas, Dijah and Gen. Daniel. Isaac and Henry were also, I have learned, of commanding physique. Elisha (102), the fifth son of Dea. Henry and Lydia (Fowler), married Fanny Chandler Morris when be was in his twenty-eighth and she in her twentieth year. The family of her father, like that of our Bowens, goes back through Woodstock, Conn., to Roxbury, Mass. Her family is paying ours an old debt We gave them Eliza beth, daughter of Lieut. Henry, and now they give us Fan ny, daughter of Darius, "Morris and Bowen were near neighbors in Roxbury," says J. F. Morris, Esq. He also says (writing to a son of Fanny, Dr. E. C.): "Your mother and my father were cousins." How Elisha and Fanny settled in Reading, Windsor county, Vt, next neighbor to their "Uncle Daniel,'' my grandfather, and how, after the b.irth of all their children, they removed to V 7'?'3.thersfield, close under the south side of" The mountain," as we thereabouts used to call "Ascut ney," we have already seen. In this family we observe, for the first time in the bis- HISTORIC.AL AND BIOGRAPHICAL. 221 tory of our Bowens, the appearance of double names, as a rule. The adoption of the new style, in this instance, we may safely attribute to the Morris side of the house, for the Bowen side was con,;(!rv;,tive in comparison. "Aunt Fanny," as she was called far and wide, was one of the most stirring, energetic, enthusiastic, sociable women you would ever meet. After their children were grown up, and when I wa.'l still a child, "Cousin Elisha" and "Aunt Fanny" used every now and then to drive over to our house and eat din ner with us. I remember the chaise they came in, a kind of vehicle not very common there. To this day!I cannot recall the pair, except with the chaise, and the tremulous and kindly voice of Cousin Elisha, and the high, bell-like tones of•• Aunt Fanny." They lived and dbl Congregationalist._, as did Dr. Si las and Gen. Daniel. Six of the nine brothers w, re "Evan gelical." · Henry ( 103), the sixth son, was a Baptist. Doubtless, he became so at Cheshire, where, before marriage, he went for employment. The church there was Baptist. and it has thriven to this day. It,; present pastor (Wm. Gussman) has kindly copied for us the two following entries: "Feb. 22nd 1812 Voted that Henry Bowen be received into fellowship" W. Collran, C. Clerk "1814 - - Henry Bowen dismissed by letter." The records are incomplete. They do not furnish the date on which Cynthia (Wood), the wife of Henry, joined the church, or that on which she was dismissed. Her young est daughter, Jane A. (214), says she joined at the age of sixteen. As she was born in 1783 she must have become a church member in 1799, about seven years hefore marriage, and thirteen yeMs before Henry did. Mrs. Cora E. (Bowen) Shipman (485) says: "My grandfather went to Cheshire to lay,stone wall. While there he became interested in my grandmother, and also in the Baptist Church, of which she was a member. She did not become a Universalist until a 222 OUR BOWENS. good many years after their removal to Middlefield ; then, through the influence of an old neighbor in Cheshire, · El der Jones,' formerly a Baptist, who came to Middlefield Centre and preached in the school house, grandma, and her brother Levi Wood, became Univc:rsalists. * * * There is one little incident I must tell you about. While grandma was a very earnest Universalist, grandpa still re mained a Baptist, and was exceedingly put out by her lib eral views. One Sunday an old school mate of hers, who had come over to the little U niversalist army, was to preach at the school house of Midcllefidd Centre; so, brighi: aud early, grandma was up and getting ready to attend, and in due time she and grandfather were on the way. Now the old homestead is on a cross road, and when you reach the turnpike, to the right is Cooperstown, and to the left is Mid dlefield Centre. Coming to said turnpike, grandpa whip ped up the horses, and turned toward Cooperstown and his beloved Baptist Church. But grandma is equal to the oc casion. First she unpins her shawl and throws it on the roadside-next the bonnet is untied and follows the shawl. When she begins to untie the shoes, the old lumber wagon and horses are slowly turned around, the bonnet and shawl picked up, and grandma heard the U niverl'lalist sermon." Cynthia's youngest son, John W. (213), gives it as his impression that she, bringing her letter of dismissal from Cheshire, neyer presented it. Prof. S. T., of lndianapolis(the next older son of Hen ry and Cynthia), writes me thus: "My father placed his letter from the Cheshire church with a Baptist Church in Middlefield, some six miles south of his place of restdence. He was known as • Deacon Bowen ' from tny earliest recollecti_on. * * * He trans ferred his membership to the Cooperstown church at the time of its organization (1834J, or very soon afterwards. He was never deacon in the Cooperstown church. "My impression is that uncle Levi Wood removed to Middlefield a short time-a year perhaps-in advance ot, HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPIIIC,tL. 223 father. His farm joined father's on the south. He re mained on his farm till about 1833, when he removed to Cooperstown where he resided till his death. "Some time before any of them le~ Cheshire, influ enced by the preaching of Elder Winchester, a noted Bap tist minister who had becon1e a Restorationist, (that is, a believer in the ultimate restoration of the whole human race to God's favor) both my mother and uncle became believ ers in the same doctrine. At that time they were members of the Baptist Church at Cheshire, of which Elder John Le land, an able but somewhat eccentric preacher, was pastor. They both became Universalists, though mother retained till her death her firm belief in the divinity of Christ" Cynthia's parents were Baptists: "Br. Daniel Wood and his wife united with the church January the 30, 1796." Rev. Wm. Gussman remarks here: "I notice that Daniel Wood was a prominent man and Elder Leland's right hand man all along." The change of faith was a very serious and earnest matter to Cynthia herself, and very wide-reaching in iti; consequences. Five of her six sons accepted the views of their mother, though four of her six daughters de clined to do so. Only one, however, became a Baptist, strictly following her father. The church nearest home was the Presbyterian, and Silas T., Emeline, Marcia and Jane A. accepted that faith. Lucia (Mrs. Stevens) was an earnest Baptist Jane A. (Mrs. Woodruff) says: "My father was a strong Baptist, and much to his sorrow some of us were Presbyterians and some were Universalists-only one of us was a Baptist." The children that did not accept their mother's faith rejoiced, notwithstanding, in her admirable Christian life. Mrs. Woodruff says: "To me sh-.: was beautiful and grand. I never expect to attain her height in noble womanhood. * • She was a wonderful Bible student, and ready to repeat Scripture correctly if we made any mistake." Cynthia's father, Daniel Wood, was one of the pioneers OUR BOWENS. of Cheshire, and he and his brother Nathan "ere at the battle of Bennington. The Town History records that Re becca (Ingalls) Wood (Cynthia's mother) took the farm work from the hands of her husband, tended the crops, milked the cows and mac.le the cheese." Speaking of cheese-making, Daniel Wood was among the contributors to that monster cheese ( 1 zoo pounds) which the farmers of Cheshire sent to President Jefferson. (A ma jority of his Bowen descendants are still Jeffersonian in pol itics.) His old homestead has been kept in the family, and I have found a nice' correspondent in the widow of his grand son and namesake, Daniel \.Vood, who lives there. She has given me a copy of the will of Cynthia's father. Therein the daughters mentioned arc: Sarah, Betty. Rebecca. Cyn thia and Laura (living), and Molly (deceased). The sons are: Elisha, Isaac and Levi. Mrs. Wood says that nearly all the descendants of Daniel and Rebecca there are in com fortable circumstances, have an excellent moral record, and are mostly members of the old Baptist Church; the present edifice standing on the original site, " where Elder Leland of former days gathered so many people of Cheshire into the fold of Christ." Henry and Cynthia "with five children removed from Cheshire to Middlefield in March, 1814 They came," says Mrs. Shipman, "on a sleigh. In many places the snow was gone, and they had to drag along on the bare ground, grandmother sometimes being obliged to walk, and carry the baby, Lydia, and lead Levi" (my father). I rcmembcr hearing her tell about this journey." Gen. Daniel Bowen (104) the sevcnth son and eighth child of Dea. Henry and Lydia (Fowler) Bowen, was the last of the quartctte of children born during the revolution ary war. Like' his father before him, and, indeed, like his elder brQthers, he left his home while still a youth. He came to Reading, Vt., and lived two or three years, per haps, with his Uncle Daniel, He was fond of his ·books, and he presently become a teacher. He was careful of his IIL'iTORICAL AND BIOGRAPIIICAL. 225 earnings, and at length he bought a handsome farm, a mile west of the Connecticut river and the village called "The Bow," or "\Veathcrsficld Bow." The farm was on the broad side-hill which overlooks Claremont, in New Hamp shire-. Herc he prospered in worldly g-oods and in popu larity. He was a Whig in politics, as was his adopted State. He generally held some public office, town, county or State, and he was made Brigadier General of the Vermont militia. He was a Congregationalist, and that was the ecclesiastical fonn and faith of his side of the town. Late in life he ex perienced some trouble in his church-there were factions and misunderstandings which so bittt:rly ~rieved hnn that he went to church with the Baptists at Ascutneyville; but he did not forsake the faith of his fathers. Gen. Bowen bore himself with a dignity becoming his military title. I remember scarely another instance of the grand and courtly manner among our Bowens. I have seen only a few. to be sure, but from what I have seen and heard I judge that a plain, direct, unassuming manner is rather characteristic of us. Our genernl was not only a pushing, ambitious man, but he was just, and honorable and kind; very quick and tender in his feelings; he was a warm friend, and a bitter foe. He was very fond of his children, and proud of his grandchildren. He was greatly interested in the wider circle of the Bowens; and he never tired of instructing me, for in stance, in my relationships. He did, I am p,,sitive, a good deal of genealogical work. and I am at a Joss to know what ever became of it. How delighted he would have been to know the definite particulars we now possess of our origin in Wale!<, and of our early Massachusetts Bay history. Lydia (105), the ninth child of Dea. Henry, of West Woodstock, enjoyed but a brief career as wife and mother. She died in the eleventh month of her marriage, kaving a a son few weeks old. A year later her sister Hannah took her place as wife of Charles Samson, of Eastford, and mother 226 OUR BOWENS. to Alphonso, the infant son. The father and the mother of Charles Samson seem to have been Spanish immigrants. Their names should probably be spelled Aron and Lena or Elena. Of Alphonso we know little, except that he is said to have been fond of travel and adventure and the sea. He died at twenty-seven, unmarried. Hannah bore to Charles Samson two sons. The younger died in infancy, and the elder became Gen. Samson, of Samsonville. After some years Hannah, being left a widow, sold her home to her brother Isaac, and went to live at Muddy Btook, now East Woodstock, with her cousin, Mr. John Fowler. Here she married ( 1831) Elkanah Penniman, who took her to h!s farm in the "English Neighborhood," where was born her young est child, Samuel Penniman, now Superintendent of the Knickerbocker Ice Company in New York city. Elkanah Penniman dying in 1849, Hannah went to live with her older son, Henry A. Samson, first in Samsonville, after wards in Rondout, N. Y., till his death, in 1869. The rest of her days she passed with her only surviving child, Sam uel Penniman, in Kingston, N. Y. She reached the age of seventy-eight. John (107), the eleventh child of Henry and Lydia, left home while in his teens, like the other boys. It was to learn the tailoring business, in Boston, with his brother Dijah. (I have this history from his son (221). No sooner was he of age than he set up for himself in Savannah, Ga., though with a very limited stock of goods. Not pleased with the sanitation and climatic conditions of Savannah, he soon removed high up into the country, settling perma nently in Covington, Ga. Then, having been South ten years. and having got a good start pecuniarily, he married the daughter of a planter, and presently, through his own resources, became a planter near Covington. Here his two sons were b~lrn. At the age offorty,in the year 1835,and when his older son was eight years old, he removed to Fre donia, where he passed the rest of his life, a planter and a mer chant. He died at sixty years of age, in the year 1856. He HJBTORICAL AND BJOOJUPHJCAL, was a genial, sociable, loveable man. Dr. Aurelius Bowen seems to have seen him in the same light as I did, for he says: "Uncle John impressed mecas the mildest Bowen I ever knew." He must have been not so hard a master in those times of negro slavery as most of us would have been. Dr. Samuel ( 108), the twelfth and youngest child-the ninth son of Henry and Lydia, studied his profession in Boston. Here we find him, seventeen years old, in 1814- He and his n~phew, Fordyce Foster Bowen (175). were asked to dine that day at the house of Simeon Bowen ( I 72 ), comer of Hanover and Elm streets. Samuel was then liv ing with his brother Isaac. By a little accident, wh.ich nearly cost the mother her life, the dny became the birth day of Nancy (Bowrn) Davis (to whom we are indebted for the incident), daughter of Simeon and Nancy. Playfully, or accidentally, Fordyce suddenly moved the cbair on which Nancy (Bayley) Bowen was about to sit. This fixes a date for us, but it spoiled a dinner. Ten years later Samuel ha., become the physician and surgeon of Thompson, Conn., and is married to Mary Sum ner, of Eastford, Conn. I have a little pen-picture of him by Miss E. D. Lamed, the historian of Windham county, Conn. "For about twenty-five years Dr. Bowen practiced medicine in this town, and probably no physician in the county was r,': widely known or so generally beloved. Magnetic, we should call him in modem phrase; for he seemed to draw all hearts to him. * *. * I remember him as the most genial, sympathetic and life-inspiring person I have ever known. He ranked high in his profession, having great keenness of perception, and availing himself of all new modes of treat ment. *' * * He was especially skilful in surgical oper ations. His practice was very large. * * * Politically, and I might say religiously, Dr. Bowen was a radical of the most pronounced stamp, an ardent admirer and follower of Garrison and Parker. He was one of the first men in the OUR BOWENS. county to come out squarely as an abolitionist, and he was the candidate of that party for State Senator. * * * It was remarkable that, though Dr. Bowen was so.much of a free-thinker, his orthodox friends were never estranged from him, but looked upon his speculations as pardonable eccentricitic:s. His funeral drew together the largest as sembly ever witnessed in this village, and, after forty years, save one, he is still tenderly rcmcmbered." He was snatched away 'by an attack of apoplexy. Only his daughter Mary Helen was left. She was cared for by her Aunt Hannah, by her Uncle John and by her cousin, Gen. Samson, at whose house she was happily married. • After the children of Dea. Henry, come those of the younger brother, Daniel, of Rt:ading, Windsor Co., Vt. And first of these is Dr. Elisha ( 109), who is seen to have been at home the spring he was nineteen years old. He was one of the first group of "Candidates" received, by immersion, into the Church of North Springfield (Mch. 4, 1810.) Elisha led, and his sisters and his brother followed in due time. Dorothy, Jan. 20, 1811; Susanna, Sept. 23, 1821; Silas, May I, 1825. We see that all four of Dan iel's children became Baptists, though their parents were life-long Congregationalists. The North Springfield Church was, in those days, the most influential religious society in that vicinity. When Susan and Silas joined, it was under the preaching of one of its strongest pastors, Rev. Richard M. Ely, a cousin of my mother. The Meeting House (the old brick one on the top of the hill, north of the village), had not bc!!n built when ~isha became a "communicant." The meetings were in school houses and in private dwellings. The first regular "church meeting" after the organizacion, was held in the house where my brother, James C., now lives-where Priscilla and Waldo Cheney· died, and where, a few years ago, my own father and mother died. Elisha, and the other young Baptist Bowens, bad seven FIISTORll'Jl.L .·IND BIOGR.-IPHIO..A.L, miles, at least, to go to church. Their parents went, in the opposite direction, almost as far. Dr. Elisha's classical and medical studies are a good deal involved in obscurity. He certainly attended medical lectures at Dartmouth College. It was only thirty miles from his home; and I have hl·ard my father speak of driv in~ over there to carry Elisha. It is not certain that any full course was pursued, or a diploma won. It is certain that Elisha studied and practiced awhile with his cousin, Dr. Silas. At the age of twenty six he married and settled in. Palmyra, N. Y.. where his wife, Mehetable (Bryant), died, and where he married Adeline Rawson. a very dear friend of Mchctable, who, about to die, put the hand of Adeline into the hand of Elisha. The next year, this couple mar rying, _removed to Yates, Orleans Co., N. Y. In 1822, the following year, Dr. Elisha a.;sistcd in the organization of the Baptist Church there. He was its clerk for many years, and all his lite he was a leading member, a right hand man of the pastor. Too brief wa,; the career of the gentle Adeline-only nine years. Four little ones survived her. To fill her place, Heaven vouchsafed the affectionate and unselfish Mary Ann Clark; and so two families grew up together as one. About 1850. Yates Academy enjoying a good reputa tion, and my uncle, Dr. Elisha, being much interested in it and its Principal, he persuaded my father to Jet me come there to finish my preparation for college. So I became personally acquainted with the family. Cousin Samuel (229) was a merchant, unmarried, and boarding at home; cousin Edgar (232) was the clerk of''thc store" (general merchandise); and cousin Charles (231) was a classmate of mine. The two. oldest were away from home. Petite cousin Adeline, abounding in "sweetness and light," was a schoolmate. The younger members of the family were at tbe-village school. 2,10 OUR BOWENS. At that time, Dr. Elisha had been for years much broken down, and a dyspeptic. Not yet sixty years old, he had lost his original elasticity. Years before, he had experienced a season of deep depression, which seemed to have left its mark. Whether its chicf ground was physi cal or mental I know not, but I believe that indigestion was the root of the evil. In connection therewith was a bit ter disappointment, and trial of his religious faith. He had harvested a fine crop of wheat, receiving it as from God, with child-like gratitude, and, in his heart, already rlevoting a portion of it to a holy cause: the Burmese Baptist Mis sion. Why did the lightning fall from hl·aven and con sume it? Did not God care for his own cause and work? For a time his faith was disturbed. Not that for a mo ment he turned his back upon religion, but he was troubled beyond expression, and unreconciled. After a time he regained his footing, but he was ever as one whose spirit had been broken. In his practice of mc-dicine he satisfied the commuity better than he did himself: He was over-critical and scru pulous about claiming to understand his cases. He lacked self-confidence. So it was natural that, finding himself in a district where all were prospering in wheat culture, he turned his attention in that direction, and at length quit his practice altogether. His sons leaning to trade, 1.e finally invested what he had, in a village store at Lyndon ville, and there he was, in partnership with Samuel, when I found them, as aforesaid. Dr. Elisha was greatly interested in education and in reforms. He was, from the beginning, a pillar of Yates Academy, as well as of the church there ; the friend and counsellor of the teachers, as well as of the pastors. He was a pioneer in 'the anti-slavery cause, as he was in that of temperance. His intellectual taste was fine and his criti cal faculty unusual. Personally, Dr. Elisha Bowen was tender-hearted, lll.f/TORIOAL ,tND BfO(JfUP/1/CAL. 231 sympathetic, and hopeful. He was greatly esteemed in the community, and he was venerated by his children. Upon my father, Silas ( 1 12), the younger son, de volved naturally the cart: of the aged parent-;, and of the homestead. "Aunt Susan" assuming the burden of the housekeeping, till '1er marriage, the-introduction of another mistress seemed superfluous. · At all events. my father did not marry till he was thirty years old ( 1S28). About 1833 there came a change to our quiet comer of Reading. Father was one of half a dozen to build a lit tle Woolen Factory. It thrived till the great financial crash of 1837. Meantime the village of FelchviDe bad sprung up-a meeting-house had been built, and the Bap tist church had been organized (1835), with Silas Bowen as deacon. · The factory company was not a corporation, with lim ited liabilities. Happy would father have been if he could have bid good by to his thousand dollars, and to fur ther anxieties. A chancery suit against a partner who re fused to bear his share of the Joss was protracted through all my boyhood. Fear of the total wreck of his fortunes, combined with chronic dyspepsia, developed a settled con dition of low spirits. Part of the homestead had to be sac rificed to save the other part, and finally, about 1855, it was disposed of altogether, and in lien of it a cheaper farm was bought, near North Springfield. Here, however, he was homesick and discontented, and his later years were passed under a cloud. He was a man of the utmost sincerity and good faith, and he was deeply interested in the reforms of his day. He was too serious always, and his interpretation of relig ion was not sufficiently cheerful, QUt he exhibited at all times a gentleness· and kindness and helpfulness that are touching to recalt His appreciation of education was such that he was willing to further his children therein to the cramping within still narrower limits his already straight ened circumstances. 232 OUR BOWENS. My mother was of happier temperament, looking al• ways on the brighter side, and making her religious faith a firmly-fixed anchor in time of trouble. Her father's family was musical, while our branch of Bowens was very far from it Both families were unusually religious, and my mother was extremely so. It was as if she really believed what she thought she believed. She had rare independence and originality; and so she sometimes was led into the exces sive and the unconventional; for, to what.:ver-cause she gc>t enlisted in, s,pe gave herself up with earnestness and self-abandon. · All her sons (much more than any of the daughters) discover somewhat of the mother herein. Indeed, if the eldest were not given to riding hobbies, our Bowens would not have this book. It is due my mother to add here that if her faith made her seem sometimes eccentric, it did serve to render her old age more than hopeful, more than peaceful-expect- ant-triumphant · She was the youngest of twelve children, all of whom reached maturity. Her father was a son of Thomas and Mercy {Wheeler) Banister, of Brookfield, Mass. Mercy lived to be one hundred years and six months old. Thank ful {Ely) Banister, my grandmother, died at" eighty-eight Her oldest daughter, Fanny (Mrs. Shedd), reached her ninety-seventh year, and my mother, delicate in health from youth, lived to be eighty. Grandmother's father was Joel Ely, of Windsor, Vt, formerly of W. Springfield, Mass., whence he removed in 1775, taking his family and effects in a boat up the Connecticut river; only the wife had to go on horseback, carrying her youngest child on a pill,'>w. Joel was of tbe fifth generation from Nathaniel. immigrant in 1634, settling permanently in Springfield, Mass. "Aunt Susan" (113), married James Gibson Johnson, a son of the nearest neighbor, Rev. Jeremiah Johnson, a soldier of the Revolution. From my cousin James Bowen HISTORICAL AND BIOGIUPIIICAL. 2 33 Johnson (248), I have some interesting particulars of his paternal grandmother Thomasin Blanchard, and of her an cestry. Her grandfather wa-. the Hon. James Gibson, of Boston, merchant and importer, who distinguished himself in the siege of Louisburg. ("Taking of Louisburg'' by Samuel Adams Drake.) He dying when his only child, Mary Ducsbury Gibson, was a minor,.thc large inheritance was snatched by her guardian.· Mary married Nehemiah Blanchard. these were Thoma,.in's pan:nt,;, Her father's great-grandmother was Ruth Alden, daughter of John Al den and Priscilla Mullens, the pair commemorated in Long fellow's "Courtship of Miles Standish." My grandfather having recorded his daughter Su~nna's marriage, adds: ••Set out for Michigan the same day."; "This journey," says cousin James Bowen Johnson, "occupied three weeks. It was made with a farm wagon and a load of furniture to the Erie canal,and thence by boat to Buffalo, N.Y.; thence by the old steamer 'Walk-in-the-Water' to Detroit, and from there the furniture wa-. carried on a sled drawn by oxen, while the bride rode an Indian pony through the woods to where she spent her life and reared her family." Susan's four son's have all proved strong and capable ipen. Two of them are Western farmers and well-to-do, and two are men of affairs in Washington, D. C. The oldest is the Secretary and Treasurer of Howard University, and the youngest is special agent of the Equitable Life Assurance Company. Aunt Susan attained her eightieth year, greatly beloved as wife and mother. In cheerfulness and sustained cour age, she must be awarded the palm over her brothers. Coming now to the eighth generation, that of the present writer, and first to the children of Levi (97 ), we note as a curi osity that of the eight who survived infancy-Nancy, Ira, Dolly, Oren, Harriet, Lydia, Levi L. and Erasmus, the first four were born in the eighteenth century, and the last 234 OCJB BOWENS. four in the nineteenth; and that each quartette contains two sons and two daughters. The distinguished member of the family was Judge Levi Fowler Bowen (170), of Lockport, N. Y. "In 1845 he was a member of the Legislature in Albany. He subse quently served a number of years as Circuit Judge of his own district, and finally an eight-year term as Judge of the Court of Appeals, in Albany." Judge Bowen, of Lockport, was not only the most distinguished member of his branch of our family, ~ut the most distinguished member of the legal profession of which our Bowens can boast. I regret not being able to secure adequate materials for a fitting notice of Tiim. His two sisters next older than he, Harriet and Lydia, both married professional men of liberal education. Har riet married an Episcopal clergyman, Rev. L. A. Barrows, who enjoyed a long life of usefulness and dit:d at eighty two. His devoted wife followed him just one week later. He was a gr,duate of Union College, class of 1829, and of the General Theological Seminary, class of 1832. Their oldest daughter, Harriet Anna (Mrs. Copland), says: "Our m·other was an exceptional woman-strong of mind and purpose, and one of the most unselfish, generous persons I ever knew. Her mind was bright and clear to the very last. After her death I found in her work basket a critique of Carlyle and George Eliot, cut from some paper, and marked in certain passages. I was struck with this indi cation of her keeping abreast of the current literature of the day." L> dia's career was a brief one (she dying at thirty three); and her husband's was only less brief, he dying at forty-seven. He practiced law in Lockport, N. Y. Two very capable children of theirs came to maturity, and the daughter (356). still survives, blest with happy families of descendants. Her brother, Charles Bowen Morse, had a successful career, but he died at about the same age as bis father had done. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHIC.11L. 2 35 A daughter (348) of Oren, and the ":rlow of C. S. Richardson, M. D., appears to be the record-;:eeper of all the descendants of\Levi. She wa'I very helpful to me when helpers were few. · Passing to the descendants of Isaac, and beginning with thuse of his eldest son, we have to note that Simeon (172), has hut one grandson bearing the Bowen name. Wm. Edmont (745), of Meadville, Penn., who, residing temporarily abroad for his health, married in Germany. A daughter of Simeon survives, Nancy Maybury (Bowen), widow of William Moulton Davis, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Among the helpful daughters of our Bowens, she comes in for no second place in the work of gathering and prof.. fering materials for the family history. One of the cousins calls her •• a walking cyclopredia of Bowen lore;" and what she has she freely gives. This now ii; the third time she has exhausted her treasury for the common good. Ad vanced in year!', delicate in health, feeling almost alone among strangers, may she not fail of, at least, a kind word of appreciation. In an earlier time, her house, in New York, was for many years a kind of Bowen hostelry, not for the children of Isaac only, but for all the Bowens. She had inherited from her grandfather the innkeeper's hospi tality. Yet it must fall to her to have her poor mother die, not in her anns in New York (see under No. 172), but sud denly when on a visit in Lynn·, Mass. Capt Henry (174), the second son of Isaac, was in all respects admirable ; only that a too rash ambition termi nated suddenly a promising mercantile career and his life. Coming from 'the country a half.grown boy, he reached manhood in Boston, a clerk. in a wholesale grocery. He became the leader of the choir in the second church, whose pastor at that time was Dr. Henry Ware, jr. He was prominent in the Handel & Haydn Society, and in everything lie undertook. By his tall and handsome form, and his cordial, genial manners he won all hearts, especially {if we may. say so) that of Nancy Binney Copeland. After OUR BOWENS. he had got a grocery establishment of his own in Dighton, Mass., his former minister, Dr. Ware, sanctioned and con summated the union. Henry received soon afterwards from Gov. Brooks his commission as Captain of the Taun ton Light Infantry, and from "King David's Lodge" his Masonic diploma, both documents dated 1824. Three or four years later he and his brother Silas made the unhappy venture e>f sta11ing a mercantile enterprise in North Caro lina, near Elizabeth City. The place, Indian Town, proved very insalubrious. In August, 1829, Capt. llei;try came North for goods, but while in New York he learned of the dangerous illness of his wife, and he hastened back to find the entire family prostrate. His son John, four years old, he presently buried. Then he himself was taken down to die among strangers. The poor wife, after a time, recovered, but never wholly, and finally she died from the effects of the fever. The infant son, William R., was spared. It was he who was a druggist in Brockton, Mass., and who has recently died there. His older brother, Henry Wight, had been temporarily left at the North. He is superintendent of the great church-organ manufactory of Geo. S. Hutchins at 23, 25 and 27 Irving ton street (Back Bay, P. 0.). He is the only one of the de scendants of Lieut. Henry Bowen who still lives in Rox bury. None of his ancestors had a happier home. His Uncle Silas, who was left with the remnant of the stricken family in North Carolina, and was himself pros trated there, at the same time, with the fever, recovered, and afterwards established himself in trade at Mobile, Ala., where he married, and We have a remarkable group of children in the family of Henry the Baptist ( 103): six sons and six daughters, none of whom was· childless. Little would one have expected to see Dea. Henry of Woodstock, outdone by any of his chil dren, for he had twelve children and sixty-two grandchil dren; but his son, Henry the Baptist, had twelve children and seventy-three grandchildren ; two of his children having each had thirteen, the only instances in our records of that number. Henry (203), the oldest son, left hi~ father's farm in 'Middlefield when twenty years old, to learn the cooper's .trade, which, after following it some years, he exchanged for fiarming. After the death of his first wife he removed to Jfr.mklin, Mich., in 1849, when forty-two years old, and settled in the wilderness. Here he displayed extraordinary push and business ability. He made a fine success with raising hops, and also with the dairy business, soon paying for his farm of eighw acres, and finally. by several addi tions, acquiring nearly three hundred acres--most of it in Franklin. At sixty-five he was ready to retire and exchange ni ral life for that of the town, taking up his residence in Adrian, Mich., where, at eighty-two years of age, he died. The Hon. Wi~lard Steams, his step son, who has kind ly· communicated these particulars, and with whom he passed the last ten years of his· 1ife, says : " He was a man of high character, sterling integrity, and moral worth.· In 1/JSTORIC.;ll .11ND BJOOR,IPIIICAL. 253 religion, he was a Univer11alist, and ror over sixty years had read the Bible through, by course, yearly. In politics, he was an earnest and loyal Democrat, and three of his sons, Henry, Norman and Benoni, were in the military servici! during the rebellion." Henry, the cooper, and the four next in order-Polly, Daniel, Levi and Lydia, were born in Massachusetts, and they turned ont to be Hr.... long Democrats and Universal ists. It was Polly who broke the Bowen record in the number of children, and yet she lived to be seventy-nine years old. Daniel, following her lead, died at sixty-six. Of Levi H., the fourth and the oldest surviving child of our Baptist Henry, his younger daughter, Mrs. Shipman (485 ), of Cooperstown, writes: ! " My father, Levi Bowen, lives with me. He is a fine old gentleman, nearly eighty years old. I think you would enjoy visiting with him, as his mind is as sound as it was thirty years ago-and his health is perfect. He thinks nothing of a five mile walk, and during the past year he has walked to his farm, seven miles from Cooperstown." The oldest son of Levi was Judge Samuel Adams Bowen (481). We get a glimpse of him through a letter of his sister, Mrs .. Pierce (482): "Though reared on a farm, and favored only with the scant advantges afforded by a country school, he was al ways fond of books, eagerly seizing every opportunity for education. He was studious and iearned readily. • • He was always truthful and honest, dealing justice to all. • • "While studying law and acting as clerk in a leading attorney's office, a meeting of the county bar was held there. After the business of the meeting was concluded, the members began to relate experiences. In the back office he could not help over-hearing. He presently list ened in amazement and disgust, saying to himself: ' Is tltat legal practice? And must I throw aside what my parents have taught me of right and wrong-of honor and good faith in· order to succeed in my chosen profession ? I can- 254 OUR BOWENS. not go on if I cannot expect success.' He closed his open book with empha.'iis, and left the office abruptly. He was troubled for many hours, until the idea struck htm that t/6' cou11ty ntttitd a11 /1011,st l Of the grandchildren of Daniel (67), brother of nea. 1/J.fJTORIO,IL AND RIOGR,IPl/10.4.L. 26r Henry, one is prominent in business circles, and another has undertaken this history. Dr. Elisha Bowen (109), of Yates, N. Y., had two fam ilies of children growing up together a,; one. There were six in each-three sons and three daughters in each. Charle!! Clark "C. C." Bowen (23 1 ), is the eldest one of the second family. Religious from boyhood he was intended by his father for the Christian ministry, and he entered college at Rochester in 1852 to that end. But, hearing within him self a call to a business vocation, he continued there but a few months. His first mercantile ventures did not prove successful. His proper business career seemed to begjn when he entered the employ of a seed establishment J111 Rochester, N. Y., in 1858. As a commercial traveler for his firm in the Western States he met with that success which led, in 1863, to his associating himself with D. M. Ferry and others in a new house in Detroit, Mich., which at first transacted only a moderate businrss. However, it· had life and growth in it, and in 1879 org-anized the cor poration· of the D. M. Ferry Seed Company. with C. C. Bowen as secretary. He has held the position ever since. The immense business of this firm all over the United States ~d Canada is too well known to need exhibition here. In 1892 it had an undivided surplus of S750,ooo.oo. The shareholders are few, and only one of them holds more shares than our kinsman, to whom hao; been accorded a worldly success unparalleled among the descendants of Es quire Silas, as of record. And it is conceded to have been fairly won; and. what is better, to be held subject to the calls of humanity: educational,. philanthropic, denominational. Holding firmly his Raptist faith, he lends a strong hand to Baptist enterprises. He ha,; been for many years president of the Board of Trustees of Kalamazoo College, and he is one of the trustees of the University of Chicago. He is officially connected with several important business enter prises. 'Daniel (242), son of Dea. Silas, of Reading, Vt., spent OUR BOWEN.~. hi• boyhood on hi11 father's farm. From his seventeenth to his twentieth year he taught 11choul in the winter ; the latter year a11Si11ting in a high school in Perkin11villc in the autumn, at which time his pastor got him to prepare two or three sermons and enter the pulpit with them. Then it was decided that he 11hould go to college and prepare for the Christian ministry. He was graduated at the Univer sity of Rochester, N. Y., class of '56, carrying off the first prize for seniur class essay on "Magna Charta," He then ent, red the Rochester Theolc,gical Seminary (Baptist), and during the two years there wa.11 acting librarian of both university and seminary. At his graduation from the sem inary he was awarded the one prize for best l'Ssay on "The Revival of Greek Literature and Its Influence on the Re formation." From the Theological Seminary of Rnches ter, he went to the Divinity School of Harvard College, in Cambridge, Mass., where he was graduated in 1859. Dur ing the summer of 1859 he supplied the Unitarian pulpit of Hallowell, Me., and in December he was ordained pastor of the Third Congregational Society (Unitarian) of Hingham, Mass. After four years he resigned, and in 1865 and '66, for two years, labored to build up a new independent relig ious society in Milford, Mass., but did not succeed. Suf fering from a troublesome throat he spent the winter of 1867-8 in Mandarin, ··Fla., with his brother, A. J. (243),who was beginning a plantation there, and the next fall all three brothers entered together into the preparation of an orange §fOVe and market garden. Fair :;u«:ces,i crowned the un dertaking, and the grove was turned into cash in the winter of 1880-1. Whereupon, the brothers separated, and each for a time wa,; in mercantile business. The youngest, \\ho is the natural trader of the family, is now in a cold storage egg frade in North Springfield, Vt.; the second is in fruit and vegetable gardening near Jacksonville, Fla., and the eldest is interested in his real estate ventures in Jackson ville, Fla., (not flattering since the epidemic of '88.) During his acti11e ministry, Daniel published (besides I/J.l,l'l'OH/0,1 L .4NJJ RJOOH,1 /'Jll James Coleman Bowen (244) enlisted December, 1863 1 in Company E, Second Regiment, United States Sharp Shooters (Bcrdan's), and served to the end of the civil war, being mustered out July 13, 1865. He was wounded in his first fight-battle of the Wildernc11H, May 6, 1864-by a glancing bullet on the side of the head; was absent from the front for about 11even weeks; then participated in the siege of Petersburg, and April 2, 1865, was one of the half a hundred Union soldiers who first set foot in Petersburg. James Bowen Johnson (248) cnlisted in the Union army July 27, 1861, as a private in Company B, Third Regi ment, Michigan Volunteer Cavalry. Promoted to Quarter master Sergeant October, 1861, and to First Lieutenant and Quartermaster April 1, 1862, during the campaign of New Madrid, Mo. Served in the campaign against Corinth, Miss., May and June, 1862. Promoted to Regimental Com missary October, 1862; to Captain Eighth Michigan Cav alry November 20, 1862. Owing to bad health he did not enter service as Captain, and was mustered out January 13, 1863. J. B. Johnson is a member of the American Historical Association, of the National Geographical Society, of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was one of the organizers of the Howard University of Washington, D. C., March 2, 1867, and one of the organizers of the First Congregational Church of Washington, D. C. (November, 1865). Served seventeen years as deacon. He is Secre tary and Treasurer of the Howard University. Jerome Fletcher Johnson (252) "enlisted in the Second Regiment Wisconsin Infantry on the firing upon Fort Sum ter, April, 1861; was in the Virginia campaigns, first and second battles of Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg and in-• 266 OUR BOW/CNS. tcrvening campaigns; wounded at Antietam, and in the hospital till April, 1863; joined his regiment, and wu wounded at Gettysburg in the fight of the First Corps on the first day. The wound caused his discharge, Novem ber, '63. "The regiment is noted for losing more men (killed) in battle than any other one in the service in proportion to its enrollment" Jerome F. Johnson is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and of the National Geographical Society. He was one of the organizers of the First Congregational Church of Washington, D. C., of which he has been trus tee, treasurer and clerk. He is now superintendent of the Sunday school. APPJICND:IX Ae noraaa.. "PocU,rl'lltl of Grlllltb Bowen of Barrybead In tbo Count)' at Gl11111oraan, In tho Prlnolpallt,r ot WalH and Klnardom of Great Britain: Bell M11wr, Kin• of Britain, Ill B. O.; Affloob; Atralaob; OWen; Dlwe-Brlob waln; Omwotld; Amwerld; Gorddutu: Dufu; Gwrtboll: Doll; Gwrratn; Ollln; Ooueduwe; ICIIIO; T1111'1d; Padara-Pelfr,rdd r Bdelrn T GwonUlan dau•bter of Ooel ,...... --) Oodebotr Kin• of Britain Oun-=~ Vlodl,rr Binion Yetb wbo !lad Gayer Binion r Llymerlnl----- .------T J(aync,rtok or Jfa,rnercb Bllen dau'r of Binion ap Sell1 W>rd of BNM!knook r Bletb/!J#.i of Otten dau. of Tudor lll'eelmoek.------r Klnsof Soutb Wales G,rrpa ap Bletbyn -J Gwerullan dau. & heir .------of Pblllp Gwya Cadlftl'&P Gwriran Mand dau. & belr of r IJewell,rn Vycban ap Llewellynap GWNIID ap Iru ap Gwin ap CC>Uwln Grlllltli Gw,rr ap ClacUvar Catharine D of Bilder r ap Binion Grlllth ap Orllltb Gwyr T .Jane dau. ot .Jobn ,______) PlemJnir of Jfounton Howell ap Grllltb -J Anne dau. of GWIU'm .Jenk:vn Grant Howell------Vaatrban Catherine dau. of T .JevanLlw:,d Gwillim~--- Gam - WeDll dau. of OWIJlm .Jovan Mol'IIIID Vau• 1(u some f. .Jevan Jforpn Vau') Howell Mel:vn T Catbarlne dau. of Gnllltb ofGwyr J IJeweU:vn Voytbys .JevanGw,rr - dau'r of Wlloork ------1Cradoo bill llDd wife 268 .APPENDIX. Jenkyn ap Jovan -J Joan dau, of Owlll'm ------V11111rbaa Uwlllm Phlllop yeyoa owea 11p JeDllyn - Alloo d11u. of Jo of t1w11ww,y f, Boe110r John Iof Dy1Hm1•k to M'eaeNlh ~IT)'• GrUlltb 11p Owen _ Aauo Tbomu~;;;,;.,~7ruo;.rd• · • ff1.:fe ':~/i~orpn J:;;;J,,. 0 fn8q!Jg.,!~8:.11ut1 Duey or In Ireland BIU')'marbartb + 1 lnw Dovon •trnder oaob of thew four brothers of Griffith 11p Owen Ill a mark lmply lnlr that be bad oll'aprla.tr. :r!\!Ci!'°.J'!t° T Ell111bo,0 ::.uf~:,ri:~ Kopkln Joba -j JIIUT dau•r Ar,;;;;- Franal• - Ellen Griffith Sibel !!!! Bowe11 of Tbomaa wife or Bowc,n dau,rbter Bowen wlfeot--- !I Laucbam John of - 'l'homaa of- Tbomu sl.°:hnon 5 Frankloyn Baid~ns-a r town Oritalll Hannah dau,rbter Pbillp r ot Griffith Geor,re El~h Bowen Btbelroo Wo111111 Bowoa ut Boweu or Barryb-1 • dlila'r.r- Haverford We,,t w: Glallloriran I hereby oortlf,r that tbe fore,rolng Podl,rree of Griffith Bowen of Bar;v bead Co Glamorpn la a true oop,r or tbe Pedl,rree aa It appean1 In ,·olume 8 rJf tile Protberae Colleettoaa depoelted In the Colleve of Anna London with llddltlona from Vincent's Colleotloaa. llll Jnl,r 1881 Alfred Scott G11tt7 CoJl919 of Anna York Herald London . The pedigree, tit e.rtmso, is only in part our family affair. Reaching the lords of Brecknock it joins itself to the history of Wales. Farther back than here it is valuable, as indicating the line of succession of lords and princes, but it (?,llDOt be considered as strictly genealogical. Blethyn was doubtless the son and heir of Maynerick ; but Maynerick was not literally a son of Cariadoc; for Cariadoc lived thirteen or fifteen generations earlier, a Knight (as the story goes) of King Arthur's round t:;ible. Acco_rdingly, I _shall not presume to go beyond Maynerick-about the time of William the Conquer or. The Norman invaders seem to have appropriated Blethyn's realm and castle, and so ended the ·Welsh line of lords of Brecknock. Blethyn's descendants had to accept such subordinate powers as the conquerors might vouch safe them. In our line, Gwrgan, Blethyn's son, marriedan heiress, and so did that son of Gwrgan in whom we are in- HISTORJC.A.L AND BIOGRA.PilIOAL. 26g terestcd, Cadivar, whose possessions lay, it is said, partly in Brecknock and partly on the Gower. With Griffith, son of Cadivar-Griffith who had the surname of Gower, our line seems to have been tranllferred to the Gower penin sula. Many families of South Wales fall into our line before reaching Blcthyn. Indeed, another Bowen lamily of New England Puritans, that of Richard of Rehoboth, (A. D. 1640), does so. On the chart of Dr. E. C. B., Sir Owen Donne is seen to be fifth in descent from Griffith Gwyr of Cadivar; and Sir Walter Wogan to be a son of Gwrgan ap Blethyn. From the first Griffith Bowen, back to Griffith Gwyr, the pedigtee preserved in the Golden Grove books, coincides essentially with that of the College of Arms. Thus, our assurance is made doubly sure. With a pc::digree to the lord'! of Brecknock-one not clouded by any suspicion-we may rest content, and leave to histori cal critics, and to Welsh bards, the traditional lines of Welsh princes to Cunedda Vledig or to Beli Mawr. The original residence of Griffith Bowen, the emigrant, Burryhead. so called because a spring, one hundred yards from the hcuS(:, is the !IOurce of a stream called Burry, (E. A. B.) is in the parish of Langenith [Ll~n, Saint, and Cmydd, Kc:nith]. This name attaches likewise· to the church and to the village. The parish compr~ 3,479 acres, and c:ontains about 300 people (E. A. B). It is sit uated v~· near the west end of the Gower peninsula, which forms the west point of Glamorganshire; The sharp extremity is called Worm's Head. Here to the north lies Rhossili Bay, beside which is Langenith, as· indicated on the map in the Bowen Memorial. It may be reached &om Swansea, fifteen or twenty miles distant, at the opposite end of the Gower. Swansea also was a home of Griffith, a, we have seen. · · , Griffith's predecessors did not reside at Burryhead, or in Langenith. Their place was known as Slade, in the parish of Oxwich, some five miles to the southeast. Grif.. fith's greatgr,mdfather is the first whom the pedigree defi nitely locates at Slade, but it is probable that our ~cestors lived in this vicinity, if not on the precise spot, for 400 years-twelve generations from Griffith Gower. On the ancient map, above referred to, you may see indicated on the cape called Oxwich Head, a castle named Gower (C,-"¥,) We cannot positively say that this castle was the home of Griffith Gwyr and his heirs, but ~~ · may hold .APPENDIX, it probable. Of Griffith himself we have the significant indication of the surname Gwyr; and further down the line the name twice recurs: Howell Melyn of Gwyr, and Jevan Gwyr. In the absence of any other claims, we may theo retically place all the forefathers between Griffith Bowen and Cadivar ap Gwrgan, on or near Oxwich Head, on the south shore of Gower. Earlier than Griffith Gower we lived in Brecknock shire. In this part of Wales, according to the Romans who conquered it,~ 1700 years ago, dwelt the most formidable of the native tribes, the Silures, who have given their name to the geological formation noticeable here. The people are characterized . as of a ruddy complexion and black hair. All the Welsh call themselves the Kimry,a name probably identical with the scriptural Gomer, as designaHng the peo ple then inhabiting the Crimea. They had crossed Europe and taken possession of Britannia, hundreds of years bctore they were discovered by the Romans. · Till they became Christians their religion was Druidism. They. accepted Chri.c;tianity about four hundred years earlier than the Eng lish .did, and they learned the new faith, not from Rome as England did, but directly from the apostolic churches of Asia. To .mention a modem and American name char acteristic of Wales at its best, I name a man of whom many besides W elslunen are proud : Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island and the father of religious liberty in New England. HISTORIC.AL A.ND BIOGRAPHICAL. AP.PJ!CNDDIC :a. ORlffffB JIOWIIN'B OOA'l' or ..UU,11. I will give a brief popular description, just spicing it with the technical Norman French: No. J. A white ground (argmt); a red stag reclining (cQtlc/tant); horns and hoofs golden (or), and having in its mouth a green branch (vm).. No. 2. On a black ground (sable) a white chevron be tween three bloody i;pear beads (goutee de sang) (The arms attributed to Cariadoc V rechfras) (see pedigree). No. 3. On a dark ground {sa/Jk) three white roses. [ Attributed to Cunedda Vledig1 [see pedigree.J · No. 4- Sable, three spear heads, argent. [ Attributed to Blethyn, Lord of Brecknock. J No. 5. On a sky blue ground (a.sun) three cro~ of gold in perpendicular line (in pale). (The reference uncer tain.) No. 6. Argent; a dragon's head and neck (vm, mzs,tl), holding in its mouth a bloody hand. (Reference uncer tain.) No. 7. Gules; a chevron, ermine. [The arms of Philip Gwys, whose "daughter and heir was the wife of Gwr gan ap Blethyn. See pedigree.] Griffith &wen's coat of arms comes to us without its history, and without explanation. Its chief value to us is, I think, the fact that Griffith did have a coat of arms with whatever of importance that implies. It consists of a shield APPENDIX. made up of seven, presumably ancestral, escutcheons. To Griffith these were doubtlesll full of gratifying associations, but to us they must be not a little puzzling, at least till we become better informed about our Welsh ancestry in times remote. The several coats are to be taken in order from the dexter chief to the sinister base-from the upper left hand corner to the lower right (dexter and sinister from the shields'point of view). The first should be the proper fam ily escutcheon. It speaks of rural life, of quietly minding one's own affairs and yet of being- on the alert. Is there not something pathetic in the sense of danger .so delicately implied-the Welsh always hunted by the English? It is a coincidence that the other Bowen family of Puritan stock -that of Richard Bowen of Rehoboth, Mass. (1640], also from the Gower, Wales, has a stag armor-this time the stag pierced with an arrow. Frederick W. Story of Baltimore, Md., a descendant of Richard Bowen and an expert in heraldry, has greatly helped me both in description and in history. The colors mentioned are all covertly indicated in the engraving. [See Cyclopedias.] (F. W. S. thinks the name of Griffith is con cealed in No. 6., and the name of Bowen in No. 1]. APPBNDXX O. aowan AM) BOwaM, Griffith Bowen of Richard Bowen of Boston, r 838-39, from Rehoboth, Mass., 1640, from the West end of the Gower, the East end of the Gower, Glamorgan Co. Wales; Glamorgan Co. Wales; Son of Francis Bowen, Son of Thomas Bowen, " "Philip " " '' Harry " " " Griffith ap Owen, " "Theodore " " •· Owen ap Jenkyn, " Harry " " "Jenkyn ap Jevan, " " Richard ap Owen, Descendant of Blethyn, ' · Descendant of Blethyn, Lord of Brecknock. Lord of Brecknock. The two lines are not related as Bowens, and the line of Richard acquired our surname two generations earlier than that of Griffith .did.