Mathias Stevens Bowser, M. D., was born in a log house three miles west of Kittanning, Pa., May 14, 1837, a son of Abram and Mary Stevens Bowser. He worked on his father's farm in summer and attended public school in winter, until he was seventeen years of age, when he attended "Select" school, later finishing his education in Elder's Ridge Academy at Dayton, Pa., and Reid Institute, at Reidsburg, Clarion County, Pa. He was endowed with a rare voice and was widely known as a leader of musical conventions. At twenty-two he was ordained to the Baptist ministry and served several churches in successful pastorates. In 1877 he took up the study of medicine under the tutelage of Dr. George Tryon Harding, father of President Warren G. Harding, at Caledonia, Ohio, completing his medical course in the University of Cleveland. He resides at Lima, Ohio, where he has enjoyed a large practice. He married (1) Elizabeth Booher, of Adrian, Pa. There were the following children: Addison B., the author; Hettie J., Mary Bell, David Elmer, Rev. Arda J., Elizabeth L. and Arlington R. He married (2) Mrs. T. A. Rufif, of Caledonia, Ohio. Doctor Bowser has been closely identified with civic and educational work in his city, and is frequently invited to make addresses on social and religious subjects on prominent occasions. He is called the "Grand Old Man of Lima.
Straight from the horse' mouth: Addison Bartholomew Bowser was the son of Dr. Mathias Stevens Bowser: per Addison B. Bowser, "The Bowser Family History" (1922) page 106-107
Straight from the horse' mouth: Addison Bartholomew Bowser was the son of Dr. Mathias Stevens Bowser: per Addison B. Bowser, "The Bowser Family History" (1922) page 106-107
Mathias Stevens Bowser, M. D., was born in a log house three miles west of Kittanning, Pa., May 14, 1837, a son of Abram and Mary Stevens Bowser. He worked on his father's farm in summer and attended public school in winter, until he was seventeen years of age, when he attended "Select" school, later finishing his education in Elder's Ridge Academy at Dayton, Pa., and Reid Institute, at Reidsburg, Clarion County, Pa. He was endowed with a rare voice and was widely known as a leader of musical conventions. At twenty-two he was ordained to the Baptist ministry and served several churches in successful pastorates. In 1877 he took up the study of medicine under the tutelage of Dr. George Tryon Harding, father of President Warren G. Harding, at Caledonia, Ohio, completing his medical course in the University of Cleveland. He resides at Lima, Ohio, where he has enjoyed a large practice. He married (1) Elizabeth Booher, of Adrian, Pa. There were the following children: Addison B., the author; Hettie J., Mary Bell, David Elmer, Rev. Arda J., Elizabeth L. and Arlington R. He married (2) Mrs. T. A. Rufif, of Caledonia, Ohio. Doctor Bowser has been closely identified with civic and educational work in his city, and is frequently invited to make addresses on social and religious subjects on prominent occasions. He is called the "Grand Old Man of Lima.
Straight from the horse' mouth: Addison Bartholomew Bowser was the son of Dr. Mathias Stevens Bowser: per Addison B. Bowser, "The Bowser Family History" (1922) page 106-107
Straight from the horse' mouth: Addison Bartholomew Bowser was the son of Dr. Mathias Stevens Bowser: per Addison B. Bowser, "The Bowser Family History" (1922) page 106-107
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