Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Bowen, Abner H. 1814 - 1890
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

ABNER H. BOWEN.

   Abner H. Bowen was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, October 9, 1814, and came
to Delphi, in the year 1837, where he engaged in the general merchandise and
produce business, with his brother, Nathaniel Bowen. The first few years they
shipped produce to New Orleans on flatboats, down the Wabash river, and later by
the canal to Toledo. In 1845 this firm built the block situated on the corner of
Main and Union streets, in Delphi, where the banking business has been conducted
ever since. Nathaniel Bowen died in 1848. In 1879 Mr. Bowen associated with him
his son, A. T. Bowen, in the bank, who, since the death of Mr. Bowen has
conducted the banking business under the name of A. T. Bowen & Company.

   Abner H. Bowen was married to Catharine Jane Trawin, May 10, 1849, who died
on August 15, 1914. The surviving members of the family are Abner T. Bowen, Mrs.
Mary E. Busey and E. W. Bowen. Abner H. Bowen died on February 10, 1890.


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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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