Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Bowman, Joseph 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Joseph Bowman, of Wichita, Kan., register of deeds of Sedgwick county, has
been described as "one of the most amiable fellows in Wichita." Mr. Bowman was
born in Lancaster, Pa., his parents being Joseph and Elizabeth (Parker) Bowman.
His early education was obtained at Lancaster and in Licking county, Ohio, and
his first occupation was at farming. He swept silently into Wichita in 1886 and
without unnecessary noise about it has managed to keep staying here ever since.
By profession he is an expert accountant, and his first activities in that line
in the city were at the Wichita National Bank before the boom. When the old Bank
of Wichita was nationalized and called the Fourth National Bank, Mr. Bowman went
over to it as head bookkeper and clearing house manager. With the reorganization
of the Fourth from top to bottom following the resignation of all the officers,
Mr. Bowman went out, too, and was at once called into the Citizens' Bank, now
the Kansas National Bank. A few months later he was asked to return to the
Wichita National, where he remained until it closed its doors. Then Mr. Bowman
went to the Wichita Wholesale Grocery Company, where he remained for fifteen
years, resigning after his election in November, 1908, to the office of register
of deeds. Mr. Bowman served all through the War of the Rebellion, having
enlisted in Company E. 184th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and taken part in the
campaigns of the close of the war. For many years he has been a member of
Garfield Post, No. 25. He is also a member of Betton Lodge, I. O. O. F.,
Republican in politics, a member of the Congregational Church, and a member of
the Chamber of Commerce. In 1886 he married Miss Jennie Lemmon. They have three
daughters—Ethlyn, Lillian, Marguerite.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from 

History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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