Biographical Sketch of John Bowman, Johnson County, Missouri
Simpson Township
>From "The History of Johnson County, Missouri," 
Kansas City Historical Co. 1881

JOHN BOWMAN,

P.O. Aullville, is a farmer, and lives on section 29, range 25, and was
born in Brooks county, Virginia, January 3, 1812.  When he was about
fourteen years of age, he moved with his parents to Ohio and settled in
Tuscarawus county, Ohio.  Henry Bowman, his father, was a native of
Virginia, and was a farmer.  His grandfather settled in Virginia in an
early day, and bought his first farm of the King of England, in whose
domain he was born and raised.  Henry Bowman, the father of John, turned
attention to milling for a few years, before he left Virginia; after
coming to Ohio, he followed farming for a livelihood.  Again he moved to
New Cumberland, in same county, where he remained until his death.
John's mother was a native of Virginia, whose name was Phebe Weeks, and
who died soon after in the same county, on March 3, 1842.  John Bowman
remained on the farm until he was twenty-one years of age, then he
returned to Virginia, where he was married to Miss Mariam Brown,
daughter of Andrew Brown, a native of Pennsylvania, and a prominent
farmer.   Mr. Bowman then moved to Missouri in 1844, and stopped a short
time in Lafayette county.  He then built his cabin and moved on to his
present farm in Johnson county, which contains 159 acres, which is
well improved with good substantial buildings.  Raising wheat and other
grain has been his main object.  During the late war he suffered
largely.  One season soon after he had stacked a fine crop of wheat,
several men came and threshed it out and hauled it away.  While they
were threshing it, he was compelled to feed them, which he says was the
worst of all.  His crop of wheat was 800 bushels, which was all taken.
They have raised five daughters, all living and named as follows:
Margarette J., Phebe M., Alwilda V., Elnora S. and Bertha P.; another
died at the age of five years.  His education was obtained only at the
district schools.  Mr.  and Mrs. Bowman and family are all members of
the Cumberland Presbyterian church.

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