excerpt from book published 1951 Eunice Hall (Descendants of James R Davison) pages 14 and 15.
Selina Huntington Davison, daughter of James Rockwell and Eunice (Jenks) Davison, was born at River Philip, N.S., December 15, 1845. She was married, in Morristown, Minn., February 25, 1872, to Salisbury Rowell (Jr), son of Salisbury and Eleanor (Butterfield) Rowell. He was born at North Jay, Maine, June 19, 1835.
Mr. Rowell's parents were both school teachers. After their marriage, June 21st, 1834, they lived on the home farm with his widowed mother, his father having died the previous February. His brothers and sisters were all married and had homes of their own, so Salisbury was the only one left to care for his mother and the farm, but he died of Typhoid feber in January, 1835, about five months before his son, Salisbury, Jr., was born. In 1839, when Salisbury was about four years old, his aunt, Roseann (Rowell) Winslow died leaving two little girls, Lizzie, and Rose, who went to live with their grandmother. Their father, Franklin Winslow died soon after.
In 1844, his uncle John's wife died so he went there with his two sons, John Axtell and Henry Valentine. Salisbury's mother stayed on as a housekeeper until his uncle John married a red-headed old maid with a bad temper. She then left and went to Boston where she worked as a nurse in an insane hospital. She was offered a home with them on the farm, but she said that too many women in the same house would not work out.
Salisbury stayed in North Jay until he finished common school but he stayed with his uncle, Daniel Rowell, the last part of the time, and his grandmother went to live with her daughter, Hanna (Rowell) Leland.
After finishing common school, Mr. Rowell went away to a business school, then went to Boston and became shorthand writer for "Fowler and Wells," phrenologists.
In 1855, Mr. Rowell, his mother and adopted sister, Louisa, (Who his mother had adopted in Boston), went to Minnesota and took up claims at Silver Creek, Write Co. Mr. Rowell was clerk of the Baptist church there. When the Civil War broke out he enlisted. He was in Company A, third Minnesota regiment, the same regiment that Samuel F. Wyman was in. In the summer of 1864 they were campted by a swamp and Mr. Rowell was very sick, several times, with malaria. He never had good health afterward, but he remained in the army until the end of the war.
When Miss Davison was teaching school in Silver Creek, she met Mr. Rowell and they were married in 1872. About a year after their marriage, Mr. Rowell bought a house and five acres in the western part of Faribault, just inside the city limits, a quarter of a mile north of Bean's Mill (now Kings Mill).
In 1881 Mr. Rowell went to Dakota Territory and filed on a homestead in Spink County. In the spring of 1882 the family went there. After proving up on the claim, he sold the farm and build a house in Redfield. They remained there until 1894 when they returned to Minnesota.
Mr. Rowell died in St. Paul September 20, 1898. Mrs. Rowell died in Minneapolis, May 13, 1928. They had four daughters. The first one was born at Blooming Grove, Waseca Co., Minn., the other three were born at Faribault.
Selina Huntington Davison, daughter of James Rockwell and Eunice (Jenks) Davison, was born at River Philip, N.S., December 15, 1845. She was married, in Morristown, Minn., February 25, 1872, to Salisbury Rowell (Jr), son of Salisbury and Eleanor (Butterfield) Rowell. He was born at North Jay, Maine, June 19, 1835.
Mr. Rowell's parents were both school teachers. After their marriage, June 21st, 1834, they lived on the home farm with his widowed mother, his father having died the previous February. His brothers and sisters were all married and had homes of their own, so Salisbury was the only one left to care for his mother and the farm, but he died of Typhoid feber in January, 1835, about five months before his son, Salisbury, Jr., was born. In 1839, when Salisbury was about four years old, his aunt, Roseann (Rowell) Winslow died leaving two little girls, Lizzie, and Rose, who went to live with their grandmother. Their father, Franklin Winslow died soon after.
In 1844, his uncle John's wife died so he went there with his two sons, John Axtell and Henry Valentine. Salisbury's mother stayed on as a housekeeper until his uncle John married a red-headed old maid with a bad temper. She then left and went to Boston where she worked as a nurse in an insane hospital. She was offered a home with them on the farm, but she said that too many women in the same house would not work out.
Salisbury stayed in North Jay until he finished common school but he stayed with his uncle, Daniel Rowell, the last part of the time, and his grandmother went to live with her daughter, Hanna (Rowell) Leland.
After finishing common school, Mr. Rowell went away to a business school, then went to Boston and became shorthand writer for "Fowler and Wells," phrenologists.
In 1855, Mr. Rowell, his mother and adopted sister, Louisa, (Who his mother had adopted in Boston), went to Minnesota and took up claims at Silver Creek, Write Co. Mr. Rowell was clerk of the Baptist church there. When the Civil War broke out he enlisted. He was in Company A, third Minnesota regiment, the same regiment that Samuel F. Wyman was in. In the summer of 1864 they were campted by a swamp and Mr. Rowell was very sick, several times, with malaria. He never had good health afterward, but he remained in the army until the end of the war.
When Miss Davison was teaching school in Silver Creek, she met Mr. Rowell and they were married in 1872. About a year after their marriage, Mr. Rowell bought a house and five acres in the western part of Faribault, just inside the city limits, a quarter of a mile north of Bean's Mill (now Kings Mill).
In 1881 Mr. Rowell went to Dakota Territory and filed on a homestead in Spink County. In the spring of 1882 the family went there. After proving up on the claim, he sold the farm and build a house in Redfield. They remained there until 1894 when they returned to Minnesota.
Mr. Rowell died in St. Paul September 20, 1898. Mrs. Rowell died in Minneapolis, May 13, 1928. They had four daughters. The first one was born at Blooming Grove, Waseca Co., Minn., the other three were born at Faribault.
excerpt from book published 1951 Eunice Hall (Descendants of James R Davison) pages 14 and 15.
Selina Huntington Davison, daughter of James Rockwell and Eunice (Jenks) Davison, was born at River Philip, N.S., December 15, 1845. She was married, in Morristown, Minn., February 25, 1872, to Salisbury Rowell (Jr), son of Salisbury and Eleanor (Butterfield) Rowell. He was born at North Jay, Maine, June 19, 1835.
Mr. Rowell's parents were both school teachers. After their marriage, June 21st, 1834, they lived on the home farm with his widowed mother, his father having died the previous February. His brothers and sisters were all married and had homes of their own, so Salisbury was the only one left to care for his mother and the farm, but he died of Typhoid feber in January, 1835, about five months before his son, Salisbury, Jr., was born. In 1839, when Salisbury was about four years old, his aunt, Roseann (Rowell) Winslow died leaving two little girls, Lizzie, and Rose, who went to live with their grandmother. Their father, Franklin Winslow died soon after.
In 1844, his uncle John's wife died so he went there with his two sons, John Axtell and Henry Valentine. Salisbury's mother stayed on as a housekeeper until his uncle John married a red-headed old maid with a bad temper. She then left and went to Boston where she worked as a nurse in an insane hospital. She was offered a home with them on the farm, but she said that too many women in the same house would not work out.
Salisbury stayed in North Jay until he finished common school but he stayed with his uncle, Daniel Rowell, the last part of the time, and his grandmother went to live with her daughter, Hanna (Rowell) Leland.
After finishing common school, Mr. Rowell went away to a business school, then went to Boston and became shorthand writer for "Fowler and Wells," phrenologists.
In 1855, Mr. Rowell, his mother and adopted sister, Louisa, (Who his mother had adopted in Boston), went to Minnesota and took up claims at Silver Creek, Write Co. Mr. Rowell was clerk of the Baptist church there. When the Civil War broke out he enlisted. He was in Company A, third Minnesota regiment, the same regiment that Samuel F. Wyman was in. In the summer of 1864 they were campted by a swamp and Mr. Rowell was very sick, several times, with malaria. He never had good health afterward, but he remained in the army until the end of the war.
When Miss Davison was teaching school in Silver Creek, she met Mr. Rowell and they were married in 1872. About a year after their marriage, Mr. Rowell bought a house and five acres in the western part of Faribault, just inside the city limits, a quarter of a mile north of Bean's Mill (now Kings Mill).
In 1881 Mr. Rowell went to Dakota Territory and filed on a homestead in Spink County. In the spring of 1882 the family went there. After proving up on the claim, he sold the farm and build a house in Redfield. They remained there until 1894 when they returned to Minnesota.
Mr. Rowell died in St. Paul September 20, 1898. Mrs. Rowell died in Minneapolis, May 13, 1928. They had four daughters. The first one was born at Blooming Grove, Waseca Co., Minn., the other three were born at Faribault.
Selina Huntington Davison, daughter of James Rockwell and Eunice (Jenks) Davison, was born at River Philip, N.S., December 15, 1845. She was married, in Morristown, Minn., February 25, 1872, to Salisbury Rowell (Jr), son of Salisbury and Eleanor (Butterfield) Rowell. He was born at North Jay, Maine, June 19, 1835.
Mr. Rowell's parents were both school teachers. After their marriage, June 21st, 1834, they lived on the home farm with his widowed mother, his father having died the previous February. His brothers and sisters were all married and had homes of their own, so Salisbury was the only one left to care for his mother and the farm, but he died of Typhoid feber in January, 1835, about five months before his son, Salisbury, Jr., was born. In 1839, when Salisbury was about four years old, his aunt, Roseann (Rowell) Winslow died leaving two little girls, Lizzie, and Rose, who went to live with their grandmother. Their father, Franklin Winslow died soon after.
In 1844, his uncle John's wife died so he went there with his two sons, John Axtell and Henry Valentine. Salisbury's mother stayed on as a housekeeper until his uncle John married a red-headed old maid with a bad temper. She then left and went to Boston where she worked as a nurse in an insane hospital. She was offered a home with them on the farm, but she said that too many women in the same house would not work out.
Salisbury stayed in North Jay until he finished common school but he stayed with his uncle, Daniel Rowell, the last part of the time, and his grandmother went to live with her daughter, Hanna (Rowell) Leland.
After finishing common school, Mr. Rowell went away to a business school, then went to Boston and became shorthand writer for "Fowler and Wells," phrenologists.
In 1855, Mr. Rowell, his mother and adopted sister, Louisa, (Who his mother had adopted in Boston), went to Minnesota and took up claims at Silver Creek, Write Co. Mr. Rowell was clerk of the Baptist church there. When the Civil War broke out he enlisted. He was in Company A, third Minnesota regiment, the same regiment that Samuel F. Wyman was in. In the summer of 1864 they were campted by a swamp and Mr. Rowell was very sick, several times, with malaria. He never had good health afterward, but he remained in the army until the end of the war.
When Miss Davison was teaching school in Silver Creek, she met Mr. Rowell and they were married in 1872. About a year after their marriage, Mr. Rowell bought a house and five acres in the western part of Faribault, just inside the city limits, a quarter of a mile north of Bean's Mill (now Kings Mill).
In 1881 Mr. Rowell went to Dakota Territory and filed on a homestead in Spink County. In the spring of 1882 the family went there. After proving up on the claim, he sold the farm and build a house in Redfield. They remained there until 1894 when they returned to Minnesota.
Mr. Rowell died in St. Paul September 20, 1898. Mrs. Rowell died in Minneapolis, May 13, 1928. They had four daughters. The first one was born at Blooming Grove, Waseca Co., Minn., the other three were born at Faribault.
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