Biographical Sketch of Milton Bowerman, Springfield, Greene County, MO


>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Milton Bowerman is a son of Stephen and Phoebe (Garrett) Bowerman, and
was born April 14th, 1837, in Sombra, Canada.  He was educated at Det-
roit, Michigan, and there learned the carriage and sign painting trade.
At the age of twenty-one he went to Janesville, Wisconsin and in Sept-
ember, 1861, enlisted in Company A, 13th Wisconsin infantry as private,
but was afterward promoted to the first lieutenancy.  He served upon 
the staff of Gen. Rosseau in the topographical department for eleven
months, with headquarters at Nashville, Tennessee.  At the close of the
war he was mustered out there, and went back to Wisconsin.  He came to
Springfield in February, 1868, and followed his trade until 1878, when
he sold out, and in partnership with his father-in-law, Asa Root, open-
ed a grocery store at 712 Boonville Street.  He married Miss Sarah E.
Root, of Janesville, Wisconsin.  He and his wife are members of the
Baptist church, of which he is clerk, deacon, and superintendent of the
Sunday school.  Mr. Bowerman has been secretary of the public school
board for seven years.  His father died in 1864, at Battle Creek, Mich-
igan, and his mother is still living at that place.  They had a family
of eight children, two girls and six boys, and our subject Milton, one
of the six boys, is one of Greene's best citizens.

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