Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Bowen, Catharine Jane 1826 - 1914
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

CATHARINE JANE BOWEN.

   Catharine J. Bowen was born in Calcutta, India, December 23, 1826. Her father
and mother, the Rev. Samuel Trawin and wife, were missionaries, sent to India by
the London Missionary Society in 1818. Mr. Trawin died in India. Mrs. Bowen,
with her mother and family, came to the state of Virginia and in 1844 she came
to Delphi. At the age of twenty-three she was married to Abner H. Bowen. She was
the mother of nine children. She was a member of the Presbyterian church nearly
all her life. She conveyed to her church the lot upon which the church building
now stands and was a large supporter to its finances. She was a highly esteemed
and most exemplary mother. Her husband died on February 10, 1890. Mrs. Bowen
died on August 15, 1914. She was survived by three sons and one daughter.


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HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana

CHAPTER IX.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF DECEASED PIONEERS OF CARROLL COUNTY.


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