Bio of Levi R. BOWMAN (b.1841), Wright Co., MN

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This Bio is from the HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY, Volumes I and II,
Published in 1915 by Franklin Curtiss - Wedge.
Surname Index for The HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY can be found at:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/wright/wright.html
Under HISTORY.

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be some typos.

HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY

Levi R. Bowman, a well known resident of Middleville township, 
was born in Greenshorough, Indiana, March 7, 1841, son of William 
W. and Elvira (Hunt) Bowman. William W. Bowman was of Scotch-Irish 
ancestry, and was of the Quaker faith, he was One of a family of 
six boys and two girls. About 1800 lie moved from North Carolina 
to Indiana, and there spent the remainder of his life. He was a 
Whig, an Abolitionist and a Republican, and was a prominent man 
in his township.  He died in 1868. By his first wife he had three 
children. Milton, Edmund and Martha. By his second marriage he had 
eight children, Calvin W., William, Jabez H. (a veteran of Company 
D, 36th Indiana Infantry) Levi R., Thomas E., Sarah, Emeline, and 
Beulah. Levi R. Bowman was born in Indiana as noted, was reared 
on the home farm, and attended the district schools. In 1861 he 
enlisted in Company F, 10th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was 
assigned to the Fourteenth Army Corps. He served in all three years, 
and was in many important skirmishes, battles, engagements, 
campaigns, marches and sieges. Among the battles may be mentioned 
those of Mills Spring,  Corinth, Perrysville, Tellahoma, 
Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta, Racaca, Big Shanty, 
Kennesaw and Peach Tree Creek. He received his honorable discharge 
at Indianapolis, September 19, 1864. Then he took up carpenter work, 
an occupation in which he engaged until 1870, when ill health caused 
him to seek a home in another climate. In 1871 he located in 
Middleville, Wright county, and purchased Fred Peasley's homestead 
right to eighty acres in section 4. An unfinished log house stood 
on the place and into this house he moved with his wife and son, 
Elmer C. One acre of the tract had been cleared. He cleared up the 
eighty acres and bought forty acres on the east line of the farm 
which he also cleared. He has replaced the log structure with a 
substantial home, good barns has been erected, everything about 
the place bespeaks thrift and prosperity. Mr. Bowman carries on 
general fanning and aside from this follows his trade as a builder, 
operating throughout the Northwest. He was married in Indiana to 
Clementine Nugent, born in that state in February, l851, a daughter 
of Levi Nugent, a hotel man of Hamilton county, Indiana. She died 
in 1874, leaving him four children; Elmer C, William, Bert and Alvira. 
Elmer C. is assistant state wheat weigher, with headquarters Minneapolis. 
Bert operates the home place. William and Alvira died in infancy. For 
his second wife. Mr. Bowman married Kate Plomteaux, a native of Blue 
Earth county, this state. She died at the age of fifty.  Her two 
children, Elizabeth and Mary died in infancy.