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Submitted: 11/19/13 • Approved: 12/7/15 • Last Updated: 12/10/15 • R203918-G0-S3
Birth: Mar. 19, 1828
Franklin County
Pennsylvania, USA
Death: Jun. 26, 1906
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BOWEN, ABRAHAM M., was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, March 19, 1828; was reared on a farm, and educated in the public schools in Ohio, where his parents moved when he was very young. When twenty-one years old he took charge of the home farm, his father dying at that time. During the civil war he was employed three years in the United States service, a part of the time as revenue assessor. In 1882 came to this county and bought a farm in Wayne Township, and lived there several years, but sold it and moved into the city of Sioux Falls, where he now resides. He has been upon the school boards in the various places where he has resided nearly forty years, has held township offices, and was one of the board of appraisers of damages for right of way in this county for the Illinois Central and the Willmar & Sioux Falls railroads. Mr. Bowen has always been an active man, a thoroughly good citizen, and is highly esteemed.
History of Minnehaha County South Dakota
D.R. Bailey 1899 Page 461
Contributed on 11/19/13 by jackpotcook2
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