Bowman, T. B.

BOWMAN, MOULTHROP

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/11/2013 at 07:22:30

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

BOWMAN, T.B.—Jefferson Twp—pg 962. Farmer and stock-raiser, section 27, P.O. Victor. Was born April 7, 1841, in Vermillion county, Indiana. After finishing his education he engaged in farming until 1850, when, in company with his parents, moved to Alamakee county, Iowa, where he engaged in tilling the soil until 1861, when he enlisted in the First Iowa cavalry in Clayton, and served four years, participating in nearly all the battles in which the regiment was engaged, and after receiving his discharge he returned to Alamakee county where he remained a few months, then located where he now lives and owns 260 acres of well-improved land. Mr. Bowman was married, April 16, 1869, in Alamakee county, to Miss Adeliza Moulthrop, a resident and native of Illinois. They have two children: Ida (aged nine years), Frank (aged five years) and buried a son, Freddie in 1875 (aged five years).