BIO: H. L. BOWMAN, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 423 & 424.
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  H. L. BOWMAN, justice of the peace, is one of the prominent men of Pike 
township, Clearfield county, Pa., and resides on his well improved farm of 
seventy acres situated two miles south of Curwensville.  He was born in 
Lawrence township, Clearfield county, May 31, 1878, and is a son of Jonathan 
and a grandson of Daniel Bowman, the latter of whom was one of the pioneers of 
Knox township, Clearfield county.
  Jonathan Bowman was born in Union county, Pa., September 14, 1836, and 
accompanied his father to Clearfield county, when the latter settled in Knox 
township.  After he married he continued to operate his father's farm near the 
Turkey Hill schoolhouse, which he had helped to clear, and also engaged in 
lumbering.  Later he purchased what was known as the Powell farm, in Lawrence 
township, and moved from there into Pike township, buying the A. A. Long farm, 
on which he continued to reside until his death, October 13, 1898, when he was 
aged sixty-three years.  He was a member and liberal supporter of the Methodist 
Episcopal church at Mt. Zion.  In politics he was a Democrat but never desired 
public office, serving however as overseer of the poor when his fellow citizens 
elected him.  He married Eliza Rowles, who still survives, and lives on the old 
homestead.  She is a daughter of Tidus H. Rowles and a member of a large and 
substantial family of this section.  To Jonathan and Eliza Bowman fifteen 
children were born, as follows:  Harry, who is a member of the police force at 
Altoona, married Emma Thompson, of Lawrence township; Elam, who lives in 
Lawrence township, married Ollie Peoples; Stacy, who resides in Pike township, 
married Maude Wise; C. P., who makes his home in Oregon; Rosa, who is deceased, 
was the wife of John M. Peoples; Julia, who is the wife of A. B. Owens, of Pike 
township; John, who lives in Pike township, married Almeda Bloom; Daniel, who 
lives at Echo, Ore., married Hannah Barnett; Anna, who died at the age of 
twelve years; Sarah, who is the wife of F. T. Kyler, of Philipsburg, Pa.; H. 
L.; Jonathan, who is deceased, married Edna, daughter of Allen Bloom; Lucy, who 
is the wife of Clarence Withrow, of Pike township; Samuel, who lives in Pike 
township, married Edna Henderson; and Paul, who lives in Pike township, married 
Edith Maerfield.
  H. L. Bowman attended school in Pike township and later was a student in the 
Kerrmoor Normal School.  After marriage he settled at Olanta and subsequently 
bought his present farm from William Bloom, making a number of improvements and 
remodeling the buildings.  He is a prominent Democrat politician in this 
section and is State fire warden for this district.  He has been a justice of 
the peace for ten years and has also been tax collector for the same length of 
time.  And is at the present a candidate for county commissioner on the 
Democratic ticket.
  On July 23, 1897, Mr. Bowman was married to Miss Jessie Ardary, a daughter of 
James and Martha (Price) Ardary, and they have had two sons:  one who died in 
infancy, and Cyrus F., an intelligent and promising youth now attending school.  
Mr. Bowman is a member of a number of fraternal organizations, belonging to the 
Elks, the Eagles, the Moose and the Red Men, and is also identified with the 
local Grange.