BIO: Stacy 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 899 & 900.
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  STACY BOWMAN,* farmer and coal operator and president of the Bloomington Rural 
Telephone Company, is one of Pike Township's prominent and substantial citizens 
and resides on his farm of ninety-seven acres, which is situated two and three 
quarter miles south of Curwensville, Pa.  Mr. Bowman was born April 3, 1865, in 
Knox Township, Clearfield County, Pa., and is a son of Jonathan and Eliza 
Bowman.
  Stacy Bowman attended the McCalm school in Lawrence Township when he was a boy 
and then accompanied his parents to Pike Township, his father purchasing the A. 
A. Long farm, which is now owned by Samuel and Paul Bowman.  Stacy Bowman 
remained on the home farm until his marriage, when he moved to O'Shanter, where 
he lived for one year, going then to Olanta for a few months, after which he 
came to the farm he now owns.  This place remained under his management for 
three years, when he moved on the George Bowman farm in Knox Township, one year 
later returning to O'Shanter, where he operated a meat market for one year.  In 
1900, he moved back to this farm, which he purchased.  Mr. Bowman operates a 
coal bank, having a daily output of from seventy-five to 100 bushels.  Mr. 
Bowman and family have a very comfortable residence, although it is one of the 
oldest in the township, having been built in 1822.  On June 17, 1903, Mr. Bowman 
was made postmaster of Bloomington and conducted the office in this residence 
until the introduction of rural mail delivery, in 1907.
  On April 10, 1890, Mr. Bowman was married to Miss Maud E. Wise, a daughter of 
Moses and Elmira J. Wise.  Moses Wise was born in Center County, Pa., October 
17, 1817, a son of Conrad and Margaret (Rote) Wise.  Moses Wise was a boy when 
he came to Clearfield County, where he spent the remainder of his life.  He 
cleared a farm of almost 100 acres and died there.  On June 22, 1847, he married 
Elmira Bloom, a daughter of Abraham Bloom.  Her death occurred in 1870.  To this 
marriage nine children were born, six sons and three daughters, the survivors 
being:  John L., Amos Albert, Oliver B., Mrs. Thomas Lord and Mrs. Stacy Bowman.  
The Wise family has been one of considerable prominence in this section for 
years.  The grandfather of Mrs. Bowman was born in Germany in 1780.  When he 
moved from Center to Clearfield County, he purchased land that was later locally 
known as the Lorenzo Price farm.  Moses Wise, father of Mrs. Bowman, on leaving 
home, purchased the farm formerly owned by Samuel Thomas, who built the old log 
house still standing, in 1855.  Later he sold to David Arnold, from whom Moses 
Wise bought.  The latter was a well known lumberman.  He moved to Altoona some 
years before his death, which occurred at the home of our subject August 17, 
1910, and his burial was in the Bloomington Cemetery.  He was a member of the 
Lutheran church and was an example of Christian manhood.
  To Mr. and Mrs. Bowman, eleven children have been born, as follows:  Verna, 
who is the wife of Frank Soulsby; Clyde, who died September 17, 1893; and Pearl, 
Lloyd, Goldie, Hazel, Moses Harold, Erla, Lynn, Levada and Stacy Albert.  Mr. 
Bowman and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.  In his 
political attitude he is an independent Democrat, and has served four years as a 
school director in Pike Township.  He belongs to no fraternal organization 
except the local Grange.  Mr. Bowman is known as an upright, honorable man in 
every relation of life and is a worthy representative of Pike Township's best 
citizenship.