Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Rowell, Nat J 1858 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

NAT. J. ROWELL, senior member of the firm of Rowell Bros., is, with his 
partner, transacting a thriving business as a dealer in gravel, cobble stones 
and sand, operating two pits of thirty feet depth, convenient to the railroad 
tracks, and having all the necessary facilities in connection therewith. He 
also deals considerably in real estate. He is numbered among the rising young 
business men of Joliet, popular in society and having before him a fair 
outlook for the future. A native of the town of Clarkson, N. Y., Mr. Rowell 
was born June 26, 1858, and was brought by his parents to this county when a 
child of two years. They lived on a farm until he was fourteen years old and 
then removed to the present residence of the family on Richards Street. Young 
Rowell, during his boyhood attended the academy in Joliet and subsequently was 
a student in the University of Minnesota one year. Later he was in Chicago 
University four years, from which he was graduated with high honors in 1878. 
Returning now to Joliet, Mr. Rowell became interested in newspaper work, and 
for one year was city editor of the Republic and Sun. Upon severing his 
connection with this paper he repaired to Washington, D. C, to assume the 
duties of a government office. He resigned this in 1885, and returning again 
to Joliet, became interested in real estate and insurance to which he confined 
his attention until 1889. That year he extended his business as already 
stated. The parents of our subject were Hopkins and Mary E. (Blood) Rowell, 
likewise natives of Monroe County, N. Y. and the father born in Clarkson in 
1809. There was born to them a family of five children, all of whom are 
living; the father is now deceased and the mother still living in Joliet.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890

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