BIOGRAPHY: Rev. Alfred Lewis ROWE, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 68-9
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REV. ALFRED LEWIS ROWE, the scholarly, eloquent and popular pastor of North and 
South Welsh Congregational churches of Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, is a son of 
Thomas and Margaret (Lewis) Rowe, and was born in the parish of Margam, 
Glenmorganshire, South Wales, June 28, 1859.
     His father was a contractor in the coal mines of South Wales, but died when 
our subject was in childhood. Young Rowe was employed in the mines until he was 
sixteen years of age. Quitting the mines in 1875, he entered the Cardiff Grammar 
school under the supervision of the Welsh Congregational church (Ebenezer-Jon-y-
pandy, South Wales), from which he was graduated in 1880. He had been preaching 
for three years prior to his entrance to Cardiff in 1875. Immediately after his 
graduation he received a unanimous call to the Welsh Congregational church at 
Fleurdelis, Monmouthshire, South Wales. He filled that pastorate for a period of 
two years, when he received a call from the Welsh Congregational church, of 
Sherman, Ohio. Leaving his kindred and native land, he arrived in the United 
States May 13, 1882, and immediately proceeded to his new charge, where he 
labored earnestly and faithfully for two years and seven months. In January, 
1885, he was called to Siloam, Gallia county, Ohio, where he preached one year, 
when he was then called to Ixonia, Wisconsin, December 1885, where he remained 
on year. In February, 1887, he went to Cambria, same state, where he remained 
until July, 1890, when he went to Barneveld, Wisconsin, and remained there for 
three years, until October, 1894. In that year he was called to the North and 
South Congregational churches of Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, where he has since 
labored effectively in the "vineyard of the divine Master."
     Rev. Rowe has been very successful in the ministry, and during his 
comparative brief ministerial labors has had more than five hundred accessions 
to his church. He is an active temperance worker, and in 1892 was elected 
district lecturer of the Sons of Temperance for Iowa county, Wisconsin, and 
filled that office with ability and satisfaction to all concerned. In 1891 he 
was made a life member of the New York Bible society, and also a member of the 
American Political and Social Science society.
     On December 18, 1884, Rev. Rowe and Miss Jane Davis, a daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. John P. Davis, of Sherman, Ohio, were united in the holy bonds of 
matrimony, and to their union have been born five children: Jenkin L., Milton 
S., Charlotte B., Talmage B. and Margaret R.
     A true Christian and an eloquent pulpit orator, Rev. Rowe has done much for 
the advancement and up-building of the church of God.