John Bowen, only child of Constant and Agnes Bowen (whose maiden name was Parker), was born in Salem county, New Jersey, March 11, 1805. When about a year old, his parents started on a journey to the distant west, as Ohio was then called. His mother died during the journey through Pennsylvania, and was buried at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains. The father, with his infant child, remained in Pennsylvania about a year, when he removed to Columbiana county, Ohio, and worked in a furnace at New Lisbon for a few years. He then removed to Coshocton county, where he continued to reside until 1821. He subsequently resided in Richland county a year, and a few years in Crawford county, and then removed to Scott township, Marion county, where he made his first purchase of land and settled. He married his second wife (Sarah Hill) in 1819, by which union there were born nine children, only one of whom survives - a son, not living in Indiana.
The subject of this notice married, in Marion county, Ohio March 11, 1832, Christena Robinson, daughter of William and Lucretia Robinson, who was born March 11, 1813. It will be noticed as a somewhat singular circumstance that the birth of Mr. and Mrs. Bowen, as well as their marriage, occurred on the same day of the same month. About eighteen months after his marriage, Mr. Bowen settled on the place where he still resides. He found the land still heavily timbered, and by no means easy to bring under cultivation, but he was strong of heart and sturdy of limb, and the labor and hardship necessary in the acquisition of a home in the woods possessed for him no insuperable difficulties. Indeed, he was offered by his father the gift of a farm in Indiana if he would remove thither and abondon what seemed to him a hopeless task; but he declined, preferring, rather, to remain where he had "stuck his stakes," and with nothing to begin with but his axe, his own strong hands, and the assistance of his efficient wife, get a home out of the woods.
Mr. Bowen, in an early day, engaged in the manufacture of brick, and was also a brick mason, and followed the trade to a considerable extent, more especially in the erection of chimneys. He burnt the second kiln of brick that were made in Norwich, and built on William Robinson's log house, in the fall of 1834, the pioneer brick chimney in the township. Mr. Bowen's chief occupation, however, has been that of farming, and his life has been one of steady, plodding toil, in which his wife has been a cheerful and efficient helper. They are the parents of the following named children: four sons and four daughters, all of whom survive, to wit: Martha Jane, now Mrs. William Spencer, of Venice, Seneca county, born December 5, 1832; Agnes, now Mrs. Joseph Hoffman, of the same township, born July 6, 1834; John Morris, born March 25, 1837; William Kinsman, born December 29, 1838, both of Norwich; Henry C., born November 2, 1840, residing in Reed township, Seneca county; Sarah Elizabeth, born November 15, 1842, married Henry Gibson, July 3, 1866, who works the farm of his father-in-law; George, born May 29, 1847, whose residence occupies the lot on which stood the first house in Norwich, the old block house, built by the surveyors as early as 1814 or 1815; Melinda Christena, born November 2, 1850, now Mrs. William J. Williams, of Reed, Seneca county.
HISTORY OF THE FIRE LANDS COMPRISING HURON AND ERIE COUNTIES, OHIO,
With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches Of Some of the Prominent Men And Pioneers
W.W. Williams, 1879, Pages 429 & 430
The subject of this notice married, in Marion county, Ohio March 11, 1832, Christena Robinson, daughter of William and Lucretia Robinson, who was born March 11, 1813. It will be noticed as a somewhat singular circumstance that the birth of Mr. and Mrs. Bowen, as well as their marriage, occurred on the same day of the same month. About eighteen months after his marriage, Mr. Bowen settled on the place where he still resides. He found the land still heavily timbered, and by no means easy to bring under cultivation, but he was strong of heart and sturdy of limb, and the labor and hardship necessary in the acquisition of a home in the woods possessed for him no insuperable difficulties. Indeed, he was offered by his father the gift of a farm in Indiana if he would remove thither and abondon what seemed to him a hopeless task; but he declined, preferring, rather, to remain where he had "stuck his stakes," and with nothing to begin with but his axe, his own strong hands, and the assistance of his efficient wife, get a home out of the woods.
Mr. Bowen, in an early day, engaged in the manufacture of brick, and was also a brick mason, and followed the trade to a considerable extent, more especially in the erection of chimneys. He burnt the second kiln of brick that were made in Norwich, and built on William Robinson's log house, in the fall of 1834, the pioneer brick chimney in the township. Mr. Bowen's chief occupation, however, has been that of farming, and his life has been one of steady, plodding toil, in which his wife has been a cheerful and efficient helper. They are the parents of the following named children: four sons and four daughters, all of whom survive, to wit: Martha Jane, now Mrs. William Spencer, of Venice, Seneca county, born December 5, 1832; Agnes, now Mrs. Joseph Hoffman, of the same township, born July 6, 1834; John Morris, born March 25, 1837; William Kinsman, born December 29, 1838, both of Norwich; Henry C., born November 2, 1840, residing in Reed township, Seneca county; Sarah Elizabeth, born November 15, 1842, married Henry Gibson, July 3, 1866, who works the farm of his father-in-law; George, born May 29, 1847, whose residence occupies the lot on which stood the first house in Norwich, the old block house, built by the surveyors as early as 1814 or 1815; Melinda Christena, born November 2, 1850, now Mrs. William J. Williams, of Reed, Seneca county.
HISTORY OF THE FIRE LANDS COMPRISING HURON AND ERIE COUNTIES, OHIO,
With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches Of Some of the Prominent Men And Pioneers
W.W. Williams, 1879, Pages 429 & 430
John Bowen, only child of Constant and Agnes Bowen (whose maiden name was Parker), was born in Salem county, New Jersey, March 11, 1805. When about a year old, his parents started on a journey to the distant west, as Ohio was then called. His mother died during the journey through Pennsylvania, and was buried at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains. The father, with his infant child, remained in Pennsylvania about a year, when he removed to Columbiana county, Ohio, and worked in a furnace at New Lisbon for a few years. He then removed to Coshocton county, where he continued to reside until 1821. He subsequently resided in Richland county a year, and a few years in Crawford county, and then removed to Scott township, Marion county, where he made his first purchase of land and settled. He married his second wife (Sarah Hill) in 1819, by which union there were born nine children, only one of whom survives - a son, not living in Indiana.
The subject of this notice married, in Marion county, Ohio March 11, 1832, Christena Robinson, daughter of William and Lucretia Robinson, who was born March 11, 1813. It will be noticed as a somewhat singular circumstance that the birth of Mr. and Mrs. Bowen, as well as their marriage, occurred on the same day of the same month. About eighteen months after his marriage, Mr. Bowen settled on the place where he still resides. He found the land still heavily timbered, and by no means easy to bring under cultivation, but he was strong of heart and sturdy of limb, and the labor and hardship necessary in the acquisition of a home in the woods possessed for him no insuperable difficulties. Indeed, he was offered by his father the gift of a farm in Indiana if he would remove thither and abondon what seemed to him a hopeless task; but he declined, preferring, rather, to remain where he had "stuck his stakes," and with nothing to begin with but his axe, his own strong hands, and the assistance of his efficient wife, get a home out of the woods.
Mr. Bowen, in an early day, engaged in the manufacture of brick, and was also a brick mason, and followed the trade to a considerable extent, more especially in the erection of chimneys. He burnt the second kiln of brick that were made in Norwich, and built on William Robinson's log house, in the fall of 1834, the pioneer brick chimney in the township. Mr. Bowen's chief occupation, however, has been that of farming, and his life has been one of steady, plodding toil, in which his wife has been a cheerful and efficient helper. They are the parents of the following named children: four sons and four daughters, all of whom survive, to wit: Martha Jane, now Mrs. William Spencer, of Venice, Seneca county, born December 5, 1832; Agnes, now Mrs. Joseph Hoffman, of the same township, born July 6, 1834; John Morris, born March 25, 1837; William Kinsman, born December 29, 1838, both of Norwich; Henry C., born November 2, 1840, residing in Reed township, Seneca county; Sarah Elizabeth, born November 15, 1842, married Henry Gibson, July 3, 1866, who works the farm of his father-in-law; George, born May 29, 1847, whose residence occupies the lot on which stood the first house in Norwich, the old block house, built by the surveyors as early as 1814 or 1815; Melinda Christena, born November 2, 1850, now Mrs. William J. Williams, of Reed, Seneca county.
HISTORY OF THE FIRE LANDS COMPRISING HURON AND ERIE COUNTIES, OHIO,
With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches Of Some of the Prominent Men And Pioneers
W.W. Williams, 1879, Pages 429 & 430
The subject of this notice married, in Marion county, Ohio March 11, 1832, Christena Robinson, daughter of William and Lucretia Robinson, who was born March 11, 1813. It will be noticed as a somewhat singular circumstance that the birth of Mr. and Mrs. Bowen, as well as their marriage, occurred on the same day of the same month. About eighteen months after his marriage, Mr. Bowen settled on the place where he still resides. He found the land still heavily timbered, and by no means easy to bring under cultivation, but he was strong of heart and sturdy of limb, and the labor and hardship necessary in the acquisition of a home in the woods possessed for him no insuperable difficulties. Indeed, he was offered by his father the gift of a farm in Indiana if he would remove thither and abondon what seemed to him a hopeless task; but he declined, preferring, rather, to remain where he had "stuck his stakes," and with nothing to begin with but his axe, his own strong hands, and the assistance of his efficient wife, get a home out of the woods.
Mr. Bowen, in an early day, engaged in the manufacture of brick, and was also a brick mason, and followed the trade to a considerable extent, more especially in the erection of chimneys. He burnt the second kiln of brick that were made in Norwich, and built on William Robinson's log house, in the fall of 1834, the pioneer brick chimney in the township. Mr. Bowen's chief occupation, however, has been that of farming, and his life has been one of steady, plodding toil, in which his wife has been a cheerful and efficient helper. They are the parents of the following named children: four sons and four daughters, all of whom survive, to wit: Martha Jane, now Mrs. William Spencer, of Venice, Seneca county, born December 5, 1832; Agnes, now Mrs. Joseph Hoffman, of the same township, born July 6, 1834; John Morris, born March 25, 1837; William Kinsman, born December 29, 1838, both of Norwich; Henry C., born November 2, 1840, residing in Reed township, Seneca county; Sarah Elizabeth, born November 15, 1842, married Henry Gibson, July 3, 1866, who works the farm of his father-in-law; George, born May 29, 1847, whose residence occupies the lot on which stood the first house in Norwich, the old block house, built by the surveyors as early as 1814 or 1815; Melinda Christena, born November 2, 1850, now Mrs. William J. Williams, of Reed, Seneca county.
HISTORY OF THE FIRE LANDS COMPRISING HURON AND ERIE COUNTIES, OHIO,
With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches Of Some of the Prominent Men And Pioneers
W.W. Williams, 1879, Pages 429 & 430
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