Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... Bowen, H F
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

H. F. BOWEN, farmer, Sec. 16; P. O. Lockport; was born in Oneida Co. N. Y., April 10, 1812; 
he lived there until the age of 20, when he went to Plymouth, Mich., and remained there 
ten years, carrying on mercantile business and school teaching; in 1850, he came to Chicago, 
remaining there nearly a year, and then returned to Plymouth, Mich.; about a year after,
he returned to Chicago, and went from there to Marengo, McHenry Co., and taught school; 
in the fall of 1852, having moved to this county, he purchased the farm upon which he now 
resides. Has been Town Clerk four years. Married first wife, Miss Mary T. BENNETT, from 
near Rochester, N. Y., in Plymouth, Mich., in April 1835; she died in June 1850; they had 
three children - Lowell M., John M. and Charles H., all dead. He married his second wife 
(widow of Alonzo INGERSOLL) Feb. 20, 1852; she died Oct. 5, 1861; he married his present 
wife (widow of David E. DAVIS) April 17, 1862; they have one  - child (adopted) - Mary E., 
daughter of David B. PECK, brother of Mrs. H. F. BOWEN, born Feb. 9, 1863, in Des Moines, 
Iowa.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

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