FRANCIS M. ROWE 
                          Jennings, LA


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Source: Southwest Louisiana Historical and Biographical by William Henry Perrin
published in 1891; page 186.
Typed by Margaret Rentrop Moore


FRANCIS M. ROWE, Jennings.-Francis M. Rowe is a native of Newton county,
Georgia,. born in 1825. His father, Mathew  Rowe, is a native of Georgia, of
Scotch descent. He was married twice, his first wife, Mary Gainer,
being the mother of our subject. His second wife was Mrs. Joiner, to whom was
born a son-Mathew. Mathew Rowe,Sr., died of yellow fever in Galveston, Texas,
1847.
Francis M. Rowe is the oldest of a family of three children born to Mathew Rowe
and Mary Gainer,. viz: Dr. Stephen, D., deceased; Sarah M., wife of Hugh Nunn,
who emigrated with his family in 1849 to California, where he died. Mrs. Nunn is
now living in Zacatecas, Mexico.  Francis M. Rowe received a good common school
education in Georgia and removed to Louisiana with his parents in 1838.
Beginning business life for himself, he was for a short while engaged in
farming, Subsequently he prepared himself for surveyor and civil engineer, and
was for a time engaged in Texas as a civil engineer. He afterward read law, but
did not become a practitioner.
Under President Buchanan he was a United States revenue officer, with his
headquarters in New Orleans. At the breaking out of the war he enlisted in the
State service as second lieutenant in Company 1, First Artillery. In 1862
he entered the regular service of the Confederate States army. He was for some
time in active service and at the close of the war was on detail duty in the
treasury agency at Marshall, Texas.  Mr. Rowe has resided in this place
since 1870. He is at present notary, attorney, surveyor and land agent. He has
always been active in local affairs and served for a number of years as justice
of the peace.
Mr. Rowe was married in 1850 to Miss Annie E. Joiner; they are the parents of
seven children, three sons and four daughters, viz: Edward F., deceased; Mary
E., wife of Z. Gallup, of Jennings, La.; Ida, wife of Robert B. Moos;
Jennings, Sarah, Adah and Samuel died in infancy. Mr. Rowe and wife are members
of the Baptist church.