Biography of H E Bowen, Mississippi Co, AR

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Submitted by: Michael Brown
        Date: Sep 1998
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Bibliography: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas.
Chicago:  Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.

H. E. Bowen, farmer of Swan Township, is now successfully
following the occupation to which he was reared, and which has been his
life-work, a calling that has for ages received undivided efforts from
many worthy individuals, and one that always furnishes sustenance to
the ready worker. Mr. Bowen first saw the light of day in a log cabin
near the present site of the village of Osceola, Mississippi County,
Ark., in the year 1853. His father, Reece Bowen, came to Mississippi
County at a very early date, and there died in 1856, leaving his widow
and six children to the tender mercies of the world. She kept her
children together until her death, which occurred in 1866, and then the
home place was divided and sold. H. E. Bowen was so unfortunate as to
receive very limited [p.473] educational advantages in youth, and when
eighteen years of age he began renting land, engaged in agricultural
pursuits, and this occupation he has followed ever since. His marriage
with Miss Minnie Fassett, daughter of J. J. Fassett. occurred in 1878,
and three interesting children are the result of this union: William
Douglass, Howard E. and Joseph Reece. At the age of thirty Mr. Bowen
bought 480 acres of land, and has opened up 125 acres of as rich bottom
land as can be found. and which averages from three fourths of a bale
to a bale per acre each year, with a cost of from $5 to $6 per acre for
the work. He is classed among the live, energetic farmers of the
county, and is aman universally respected.