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Otis F Gowen

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Otis F Gowen

Birth
Sanford, York County, Maine, USA
Death
30 Dec 1873 (aged 48)
Sanford, York County, Maine, USA
Burial
Sanford, York County, Maine, USA Add to Map
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Occupation - Teamster.

Otis and Lucy married in 1848.
They were the parents of;
Adalera Harriet, Linwood Sumner.
The family is recorded on the 1850 census
at Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
By 1853 the family was residing at
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

Otis was not respected by the Mills family;
in 1855 his brother-in-law, William F. Mills, wrote the following letter:
"When I got to Roxbury, Otis had been on a drunk and had been gone all night. He kept sober a day or two; but on Monday night he got so drunk he did not get up Tuesday till almost night; then he got up and went off when I was gone, and when I was going to the depot Wednesday I met him just coming home. He did not speak to me nor I to him."

Otis' brother-in-law, Paleman C. Mills wrote:
"Otis may, after some millions of ages, develop into something bearing some resemblance to humanity - if his tutors don't get entirely discouraged with so tough a specimen before the cycles of ages pass - necessary for such a Herculean task."

In 1856 Otis deserted his family and they never reconciled.

On 3 October 1862 Otis enlisted at Concord, New Hampshire for service in the Civil War. Mustered into Company 1, 15 New Hampshire Infantry Regiment as 'Wagoner'.
On 13 August 1863 he was mustered out.
Occupation - Teamster.

Otis and Lucy married in 1848.
They were the parents of;
Adalera Harriet, Linwood Sumner.
The family is recorded on the 1850 census
at Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
By 1853 the family was residing at
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

Otis was not respected by the Mills family;
in 1855 his brother-in-law, William F. Mills, wrote the following letter:
"When I got to Roxbury, Otis had been on a drunk and had been gone all night. He kept sober a day or two; but on Monday night he got so drunk he did not get up Tuesday till almost night; then he got up and went off when I was gone, and when I was going to the depot Wednesday I met him just coming home. He did not speak to me nor I to him."

Otis' brother-in-law, Paleman C. Mills wrote:
"Otis may, after some millions of ages, develop into something bearing some resemblance to humanity - if his tutors don't get entirely discouraged with so tough a specimen before the cycles of ages pass - necessary for such a Herculean task."

In 1856 Otis deserted his family and they never reconciled.

On 3 October 1862 Otis enlisted at Concord, New Hampshire for service in the Civil War. Mustered into Company 1, 15 New Hampshire Infantry Regiment as 'Wagoner'.
On 13 August 1863 he was mustered out.

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"Sacred to the Memory of"
OTIS F. GOWEN
died December 30, 1873
age 48 years
son of William & Eunice Gowen

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