Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Rowins, James Francis 1850 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

JAMES FRANCIS ROWINS.

    James Francis Rowins, who is prominently identified with the printing
business in Chicago, is a well known former resident of Lake county, where he
has spent the greater part of the past thirty years.

    Mr. Rowins was born in Easton, Talbot county, Maryland, August 7, 1850,
being a son of John Rowins and Sarah Benson Rowins. His father was a
manufacturing jeweler in Easton and owner of milling interests in that city, and
also owned several large plantations in the neighboring counties. Mr. Rowins'
genealogical tree runs back for seven or eight generations to Irish ancestry on
the father's side and to English and Scotch stock on the mother's side. Near
relatives were engaged on both sides during the late rebellion, the family
interests being in close touch with both the north and the south.

    Mr. Rowins was educated almost entirely in private schools, graduating from
a Methodist classical institute near Annapolis, the capital of the state. In
early manhood he began reading medicine, but never completed his preparation,
for that profession since he became interested in the printing business, which
he has followed almost his entire life. Mr. Rowins first became identified with
Crown Point as a resident and business man in 1873, and for the greater part of
the subsequent period has called Lake county his home or been within close touch
with this part of the state. For several years he was connected with the
newspaper business in Crown Point, and is well remembered in that city and in
other communities of the county, although his business interests have for some
time been centered in the city of Chicago.

    In religious views Mr. Rowins is liberal and is identified actively with no
church. He is a worker in the Masonic vineyard, and has held the highest
official positions in his blue lodge, chapter, council and commandery. At the
present writing he is at the head of the oldest commandery of Knights Templar in
the west, a body well and favorably known around the world. He is also a
prominent officer in the largest Masonic body on the globe—the Oriental
Consistory of Chicago.

    May 7, 1873, Mr. Rowins was married at Crown Point to Miss Jennie 
S. Holton, a daughter of Janna S. Holton and a granddaughter of Solon 
Robinson, the pioneer of Crown Point and Lake county, whose prominence 
in early affairs has often been noted in other portions of this volume. 
The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Rowins: Howard Holton, 
born January 21, 1875; James Edward, born May 17, 1877, and died August 
17, 1898: Josephine Sarah, born January 10, 1880, and died March 18, 
1903; and Cora Belle, born June 10, 1883.

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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904

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