Yolo-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Rowe, Jesse G. (Sr.) 1832 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory

JESSE G. ROWE, SR.

    The Rowe family comes of old eastern extraction. Jesse G. Rowe, Sr., was
born in New Jersey, January 6, 1837, and at the age of two years was taken to
Ohio, where his father, Philip Gray Rowe, settled on a farm near Cincinnati. In
that neighborhood he attended school and also gained a practical knowledge of
agriculture, later also acquiring proficiency in the trade of an engineer. At
the age of nineteen years he left Ohio and went as far west as Iowa, where he
remained for a number of years and followed his trade as well as agricultural
pursuits. While living there he met and married Miss Susan B. Armstrong.

    The journey that brought Mr. Rowe to California in 1864 was exceedingly
circuitous owing to the absence of railroad connections between the east and the
west. Starting at Burlington, Des Moines county, he traveled via the railroad to
New York City, where he took passage on the Ariel for Panama. Crossing the
isthmus on the railroad he then took passage on the Arazaba, which landed him at
San Francisco in April with thirteen hundred other passengers. His plans had
been made and brought him on to Sacramento and from there down into the country
to aid in boring wells. After four months he went to Folsom City, Sacramento
county, and rented eleven hundred acres, largely adapted to the pasturage of
stock and thus utilized by him. Three hundred acres were in hay and barley and
in 1865 he delivered at Sugar Loaf Station fifty tons of hay and fifty tons of
barley, for which he received $50 per ton. Nine profitable years were passed on
that ranch and he then removed to Davisville, where ever since he has made his
home.

    Nine children were born to the union of Mr. and Mrs. Rowe. John D., the
eldest son, married Mary Horning, a native daughter of the state, and they have
four children. Philip H. chose as his wife Daisy Simmons, a native of
California, and they have two sons and two daughters. Jesse G., Jr., married
Miss Etta Wire, a native of the state, and they have six children. Charles H.,
who married Florence Davis, likewise a native daughter of the state, has one
child, a daughter. Laura A., Mrs. Perry Scheffer, is the mother of seven
daughters. Nettie V. married Charles Hadsall, a native son of the state and at
present serving as county clerk of Yolo county; they are the parents of four
daughters. Minnie, Mrs. Charles Fissel, lives near Davisville and has two
children. Zillah, Mrs. Orrin Wright, is a resident of Davisville. Eva is Mrs. F.
A. Russell, of Woodland, and has two sons. Mr. and Mrs. Rowe are very proud of
their nine children and thirty-two grandchildren, and they now have several
great-grandchildren who form an object of especial affection.

    During early life Mr. Rowe became identified with the Methodist Church, and
he is a Democrat, as also are his sons. Fraternally Philip and John hold
membership with the Woodmen, Charles has local connection with the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, and Jesse G., Jr., belongs to Athens Lodge No. 228, F. &
A. M., of Davisville. The firm of Rowe & Wire, of which Jesse G. Rowe, Jr., is a
member, engages in the tinning and plumbing business, also conducts a general
repair shop and deals in pumps, windmills, tanks, gasoline engines of all sizes
and well-boring machinery. Outside of the men in the shop and office five men
are given constant employment in the boring of wells and a large business is
conducted in that line.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]




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