JOHN A. ROWLAND

ROWLAND

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/21/2020 at 16:19:10

JOHN A. ROWLAND, a prominent resident of Colony township, Adams county, Iowa, was born in Orange county, Vermont, February 9, 1840, in the town of Corinth. He is the oldest son in a family of three sons and four daughters of Richard and Adeline (Bacon) Rowland, the former born in Corinth, Vermont, in 1814, and the latter at Bath, New Hampshire, in 1816. His father left the farm at the age of twelve years and went to Lowell, Massachusetts, where he learned the trade of shoemaker and also the carpenter's trade. After his marriage he returned to agricultural pursuits.

The subject of this sketch was united in marriage February 7, 1866, with Ellen Jenne, who was born April 21, 1846. She is a daughter of Sarah F. (Holden) Jenne, who was born October 6, 1814. Her grandfather Holden was born at Shirley, Massachusetts, May 20, 1787. Mr. and Mrs. Rowland have had ten children, two of whom are deceased.

Mr. Rowland came to Adams county in 1876 and settled in section 21, Colony township, where he now resides. He has 200 acres of fine farming land and is engaged in general farming and stock-raising, giving special attention to the latter occupation. He has shorthorn cattle, Englishshire horses and Poland-China hogs. He has a mammoth Kentucky jack and is raising some fine specimens of that breed; also has an imported Englishshire horse.

During the civil was Mr. Rowland enlisted in Company E, Thirty-eighth Wisconsin Regiment, and served with bravery until he was mustered out at the close of the struggle. He was wounded at the battle of Petersburg, and now receives a pension. Politically he is a Republican. He has served as a member of the School Board several terms.