J. H. STOWE
J. H. Stowe, who is one of the prominent citizens of Atlantic township, has one of the finest places in the county. His residence is located on the Chestnut street road, about three-quarters of a mile directly south of Atlantic. It was built in the summer of 1871, and is one of the neatest in the township. The grounds are of the most elaborate kind, having two rows of large evergreens on either side of the house, extending to the road. He also has two orchards, one of five hundred trees and the other of four hundred trees, and a vineyard of eight hundred to one thousand vines. Mr. Stowe was born on the 7th of November, 1822, in St. Lawrence county, New York. He is the son of Christopher and Lucretia Stowe. His ancestors settled in Massachusetts, in 1635, and in 1872 the family held a re-union at Connecticut, and there were over one thousand present. His father was of English descent and served in the war of 1812. Mr. Stowe was married to Mary H. Johnson, a native of Cass county, Illinois. They have been blessed with five children--Charles J., Mattie L., John Franklin, Asa D. and Emma R. Mr. Stowe is a charter member of the Odd Fellows' lodge of Cass county, and was a member of the first organization of the Sons of Temperance.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 848-849.
