Jefferson C. Rowe Biography from History of Rockingham County, NH
From: Bill Prokasy - wprokasy@arches.uga.edu

Surname: ROWE
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

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     JEFFERSON C. ROWE, captain of the Navy Yard police force, at
Portsmouth, N. H., was born in this city, November 21, 1842, a son of
Charles H. and Harriett (Stockell) Rowe. His parents, both natives of
Portsmouth, are now deceased. They were members of the Universalist
church. Their children were Charles H., Albert, and Jefferson C.
   Jefferson C. Rowe, after acquiring his education in the common schools,
found employment with a butcher at $1.50 a week and remained thus occu-
pied for nine years, receiving an advance in salary from time to time. He
was then employed in a livery stable until seventeen years of age, after which
he went to work for what is now the Boston & Maine Railroad Company,
and was with that road until 1871. On August 26, 1871, Mr. Rowe lost his

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arm in a very bad accident on the old Eastern Railroad (now the Boston &
Maine) at Revere, Mass. After his recovery he resumed railroad work, be-
ing employed for a time in a different capacity-that of messenger-and
then engaged in the hacking business, in which he was interested for ten
years. From 1887 to 1895 he was city marshal of Portsmouth, and at the
end of that time he was appointed to his present position, in which he is
serving efficiently. A democrat in politics, he has been more or less active
in public affairs.
   Mr. Rowe was married November 9, 1863, to Miss Sarah Clementine
Lovering, who was born in Freedom, N. H., a daughter of John T. and
Esther (Gray) Lovering, the father being a prosperous farmer. The chil-
dren of the Lovering family were John, Edgar, Thomas, Jane, Charles, Julia
and Sarah. Mr. and Mrs. Rowe are the parents of two children; Albert J.,
manager of Hotel Bellevue, Boston, who married Alice Grant of Portsmouth;
and Horace L., a musician of Portsmouth, who married Pearl Berry. Mr.
Rowe and family attend the Baptist church. His fraternal affiliations are
with the Odd Fellows.

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