Steward Everett Rowe Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by MLM, Volunteer 0000130. For the current email address, please go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00001.html#0000130 Copyright. All rights reserved. ************************************************************************ Full copyright notice - http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm USGenWeb Archives - http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ Surname: ROWE Source: History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915 Page 753 STEWART EVERETT ROWE, lawyer, of Exeter, N. H.. is a man who, although young, has taken a large and useful part in public affairs. He was born in Kensington, N. H., January 22, 1881, a son of Benjamin Page 754 F. and Hattie A. (Trewett) Rowe. The father, born in Kensington, N. H., October 22, 1845, died June 12, 1910. He was a farmer by oc- cupation, and a veteran of the Civil war, being a member of Moses N . Collins Post, G. A. R., at Exeter, of which he was also senior vice commander. His wife, born in Franklin, Vt., November 10, 1855, died December 31, 1912. They were the parents of two sons: Stewart E., subject of this sketch, and Gilman S., born March 22, 1895, who grad- uated from Exeter high school in class of 1914, being class orator. Stewart Everett Rowe began his education in the district schools of Kensington, N. H. He graduated from Exeter High School as class orator in 1899, and from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1904 as class poet. Beginning the study of law under Gen. E G. Eastman, under whom he continued to study for three years, he subsequently attended for two years the Boston University Law School, and was admitted to the bar July 1, 1911, after which he opened his present office in Exeter. Although his career as a lawyer has been comparatively short, he has already shown marked ability and his future success seems assured. A member of the Republican party Mr. Rowe has taken a very active part in public life. He has served in various local offices, such as modera- tor, town clerk, member of the school board for the district of Ken- sington, as library trustee, tax collector, justice of the peace and notary public, and was also for seven years sealer of weights and measures for Rockingham County. He has been a delegate to several Republican conventions, and was secretary to the last Republican State Conven- tion. He was also among the active and younger members of the Constitutional Convention of New Hampshire in 1912, being a delegate from Kensington, N. H., and served as a member of the Committee on Future Mode of Amending the constitution. In the campaign of 1912 Mr. Rowe spent two weeks on the stump, covering the lower part of New Hampshire in the interests of the Republican party. He was most of the time in company with Ex-governor Quimby and Ex-con- gressman Sulloway. A man of marked literary ability, he has been a frequent contribu- tor in verse and prose to various publications and has received personal letters of thanks from Ex-president William H. Taft and Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt for campaign poems written in their behalf. Many of his literary productions have appeared in the Granite Monthly. Mr. Rowe's society affiliations include membership in the Sons of Veterans, in which he is a past officer; the Junior Order of American Mechanics; Patrons of Husbandry; the Gamma Eta Gamma Fraternity, the G. L. Soule Society, the Rockingham County Republican Club, and the Swam- scott Club of Exeter. Mr. Rowe was married March 26, 1913, to Miss Lillian A. Whitman, who was born May 23, 1876, at West Barnstable, on Cape Cod, Mass., where their wedding was celebrated. Mrs. Rowe's parents were Josiah B. and Lydia. A. (Whitman) Whitman, both natives of Massachasetts, the father being a music dealer at West Barnstable. In the Whitman family were but two children, a son who was drowned at the age of eight years, and Lillian, who is now Mrs. Rowe. Mrs. Rowe is a grad- uate of Dean Academy, Franklin, Mass., in both the English and musi- cal courses and was for three years a student at the New England Con- servatory of Music, Boston, Mass., where she pursued her elocutionary Page 755 studies under the late Prof. S. R. Kelley. She has also had the advantage of two years' travel in Europe and South America, and during a year spent in Brazil she was admitted to membership and received a diploma from the Centro Musical de Rio de Janeiro. She has taught music to some extent and as an elocutionist has appeared in public in many parts of the United States, going out on tours. Her work in this line has been very favorably received everywhere.