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T. J. Bowman
T. J. BOWMAN, merchant and lumberman, East Hickory, was born at Beaver
Furnace, Clarion Co., Penn., March 27, 1840, and is a son of David and Ellen
(Robertson) Bowman, natives of Scotland. His father in early life followed
agricultural pursuits, and cleared a farm near Tylersburg, Penn., in which
town he was for twenty years engaged in the lumber and mercantile businesses.
He died there, in 1888, in his seventy-third year; his widow is still living,
enjoying good health. Their children were Thomas J., John (who died of wounds
received at Fair Oaks in the Civil war), Martin (who died of disease
contracted in the army, and never returned home), Adam (deceased), Robert
(deceased), Margaret Jane (deceased), James C., William, Edward, Charles,
Frank and Jane (Mrs. Ault, residing at Leeper, Penn.). T. J. Bowman was reared
in Farmington, Clarion county, and located in East Hickory in 1862, where he
engaged in boat building and lumbering, continuing in the latter business to
the present time. He embarked in mercantile business in 1872, and for eighteen
years was postmaster at East Hickory. In 1887, in company with H. W. Ledebur,
he built a large grist-mill at East Hickory (a much-needed institution at that
place), having a capacity for grinding twenty tons of feed and two tons of
flour per day. Mr. Bowman was married, in December, 1868, to Nancy, daughter
of James and Molly (Brown) Green, of East Hickory, and they have four
children: Lester D., Leona, Glenni F. and Ellen. Mr. Bowman is a
representative citizen and business man. In politics he is a Democrat.Source: Page(s) 943, Chapter 15 Biographical Sketches – Tionesta Township and
Borough of Tionesta
Hickory and Harmony Townships
History of Counties of McKean, Elk and Forest, Pennsylvania.
Chicago, J.H. Beers & Co., 1890.
Transcribed December 2005 by Nathan Zipfel for the Forest County Genealogy
Project
Published 2005 by the Forest County Pennsylvania Genealogy Project
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