BOWMAN BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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BOWMAN, A. P. - b: 1819 Columbiana Co, OH
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 731
residence: Davis

Dr. A. P. Bowman was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, on the 23d of May, 1819. 
His parents were of New Jersey birth, and were named Nathaniel and Ann (Buffin) 
Bowman. They reared a family of six children, of whom A. P. is the fourth, and he 
has been a resident of this state since the age of twenty years. He began to 
practice medicine when about twenty-seven years old, and followed the 
profession for ten years in Clay County, having spent one year in California. He 
came to Henry County in 1861, from Bates County, where he lived for four years 
just previous, and continued the practice here under serious difficulties during 
the war, and since then until within the past three years, when he concluded to 
hand the practice to younger men. He has since devoted himself to the labors of 
the farm. Dr. Bowman was married October 28, 1846, to Miss Mariah M. Riley, 
daughter of Major A. M. Riley, of Clay County. They have five children: Lucy Ann, 
(wife of John Henkle) Carrie A., (wife of J. T. Parks, in Franklin County), Alla L., 
in school at Kansas City, and two boys, T. C. and A. R. T. C. Bowman was born June 
2, 1855, in Platte County, Missouri. A. R., born in Bates County, May 8, 1851. They 
have received fair educational advantages, A. R. attending the Clinton public 
schools, and T. C. having spent one year at Warrensburg Normal School. The 
youngest was married October 14, 1880, to Miss Ella Adair, daughter of William 
Adair. She died September 16, 1881, having one child, Locke. The brothers are 
farming quite extensively, having over 400 acres of good land. They feed about 
fifty head of cattle and 100 hogs. The family are all identified with the Christian 
Church.

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