Will County IL Archives Biographies.....ROWLEY, PHINEAS 
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Author: GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD

PHINEAS K. ROWLEY was born in New York state and came to Will County when 

eighteen years of age.  Here he continued to make his home until his death, 

which occurred, at seventy-two years of age, February 22, 1889.  He was 

married, November 1, 1843, to Miss Jane A. Sanford, who was born in 

Massachusetts in 1824.  After his marriage he settled on section 19, Homer 

Township, and there the remainder of his life was busily passed in farm 

pursuits.  He owned one hundred and eighty acres comprising a valuable farm.  

With his wife, he held membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He had a 

family of seven children.  The eldest, Adelbert C, married Sarah B. Phillips, 

and settled in Kane County; Mary E. married John Mitchell; George died

when fourteen months old; Fred E. settled in Livingston County; Alice S. 

married Jerome Paddock, of Homer Township; Jane S. died at nineteen years of 

age; and Frank A. married Helen E. Savage and settled on a farm in Homer 

Township.

Additional comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900


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