BIO: Henry N. Bowman, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                              CHAPTER XLV.

        EAST PENNSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF CAMP HILL.

466  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  H. N. BOWMAN, justice of the peace, camp Hill, is a native of Camp 
Hill, born in 1840.  His father, John Bowman, now eighty-one years old, 
lives with him in the house in which he was himself born in 1805 - 
probably the only person of his age in the county living in the house 
in which he first saw the light.  He is in perfect possession of all 
his faculties, and can narrate many interesting reminiscences of the 
place, in which he has lived all his life.  H. N. Bowman lived at home 
until his marriage, in 1866, with Miss Jennie M. Kline, of Lower Allen 
Township, this county.  A year after that, in company with Peter 
Nicholas, he built and stocked a general store at Camp Hill, which he 
subsequently owned and conducted alone for two years, when he sold it 
to Sadler & Bowman.  Our subject is a Democrat, the town being strongly 
Republican, but in 1880 he was elected justice of the peace by a 
majority of twenty-eight, and re-elected in 1885 by seventy-one, 
showing the estimation in which he is held by his neighbors.  In 1882 
he was a candidate for nomination to the Legislature, receiving 1,630 
votes to 1,800 for G. M. D. Echels, the successful man in the race (in 
which were seven candidates, Mr. Bowman being second).  In 1862 he 
enlisted in the First City Troop of Harrisburg, taking part in the 
battle of Antietam and minor engagements.  He is a member of Post No. 
58, G. A. R.  In 1878 he became connected, as one of the proprietors, 
with the White Hall Soldiers' Orphans School, acknowledged the best of 
the many admirable schools sustained by the State for the education and 
care of the orphans of her soldiers.  Mr. and Mrs. Bowman have buried 
two daughters, and have three sons and one daughter living:  Harry, 
Allie, Jessie and Addison M.  He and his wife are members of the Church 
of God, at Camp Hill.  He is also prominent in the Masonic fraternity, 
being connected with Eureka Lodge, No. 302, and Samuel C. Perkins 
Chapter, No. 209, of Mechanicsburg, and Pilgrim Commandery, No. 11, of 
Harrisburg.  He takes a leading part in all enterprises tending to the 
advancement of his native place, where he bears, deservedly, a very 
high character as an honorable man and good citizen, in the first rank 
among the best men in the community in which he lives. 

1880 East Pennsboro, Cumberland County census -
Harry M. Bowman, 39 
Jennie M. Bowman, 34 
Harry J. Bowman, 10 
Allie Bowman, 5 
Jesse Lee Bowman, 3 
Addison Bowman, 3/12