Bio of Stowman, Augustus W. (b.1830) Wabasha Co., MN
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Stowman, Augustus W., farmer, Glasgow, is a native of New Jersey. Beaumont
Stowman and Anna Willett were born, reared and married in Philadelphia.
They settled on a farm in Harmony, Warren county, New Jersey, where this
subject was born to them in May, 1830. His education was supplied by the
rate-schools of that day and locality, and when eighteen years of age he
went to work in a flourmill. In 1855 he came to Minnesota and took up and
made improvements on the land he now occupies, and northeast quarter of
section 24. Leaving the land in care of relatives, he returned to Indiana,
where his home had been for some time. Here he took a life-partner, March
20, 1860, in the person of Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Squire and Susie
Morrison, all of Kentucky birth. In 1861 Mr. Stowman took up his permanent
residence here. For four years he was employed as a miller on West Indian
creek, in Highland township. He now has a finely-cultivated farm, on which
he has erected a comfortable brick dwelling, and is prepared to enjoy
life. In February, 1865, he entered the 1st Minn. Heavy Art. as a recruit,
and did garrison duty at Chattanooga, Tennessee. His religious faith is
represented by the Methodist church, and his political ideas by the
democracy. Four children have come to bless his home, and were christened
Dora Belle, May, Charles P. and Minnesota.