Abraham Lincoln Rowen (1928)

ROWEN, PIERCE, SHIFFLETT

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 12/9/2014 at 13:48:04

Earlham Echo – Earlham, Iowa
April 5, 1928

FORMER PUBLISHER OF ECHO IS DEAD

A. L. Rowen, Veteran Newspaperman, Signs “Thirty” to Valuable Career. Was Back on Newspaper at Allison When Stricken by Intestinal Influenza.

A. L. Rowen, publisher of THE ECHO between the years of 1899 and 1910, died Saturday night, March 31, a few minutes before midnight at his home in Allison, Iowa. His last illness with intestinal influenza was but a week in length. He became ill on the preceding Sunday and a steadily increasing stasis of the intestines could not be checked. His son George was called from Des Moines when the fatal termination of the disease was apparent. Mrs. Rowen was also with him at the end. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the E. Carl White funeral home in Des Moines, and interment was in Glendale Cemetery.

Abraham Lincoln Rowen was born at Valparaiso, Ind. Jan. 4, 1862 and was 66 years, 2 months and 27 days old when the summons came. He was married Sept. 21, 1887 to Jennie Pierce at Des Moines, to which union one son George was born. The latter graduated from the Earlham Academy and subsequently married Emma Shifflett, a sister of Scott Shifflett. The latter family attended the funeral Tuesday.

As a young man Mr. Rowen conducted a printing business in Des Moines with his brother Col. Jas. D. Rowen, and later operated newspapers at Knoxville, Earlham, Grundy Center, Panora and New Market. After disposing of the last property the Rowens moved to a small farm west of Winterset and lived there for two years. Mr. Rowen could not resist the lure of the newspaper business, and five months ago purchased the Tribune at Allison, county seat of Butler County, which was succeeding under his management. Mrs. Rowen still owns the property in Madison County.

Mr. Rowen is well remembered as a local publisher, disposing of THE ECHO to the present owner February first, 1910. He was a forceful, fearless editor, who dared to assert his opinion on public and political matters without regard to their reaction so long as he felt himself in the right.

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