Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: Jonathan BOWMAN

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From the Adams County Press, Saturday July 20, 1895, Page 5

Jonathan BOWMAN, one of the earliest as well as the most prominent citizens
of Kilbourn, died at his home in that place last Tuesday afternoon, of
inflammation of the bowels.

Mr. BOWMAN was born in Charleston, Montgomery Co., New York, May 16, 1828.
He received an academic education and attended the law school of Ballston
Spa. He came to Wisconsin in 1851, settling at Delton, Sauk county. Later
the building of what is now the La Crosse division of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad led to the founding of Kilbourn City, and
Mr. BOWMAN settled in that place. He has been a member of the Assembly and
a State Senator. He was a delegate to the convention that first nominated
Lincoln for the Presidency; was a director of the C. M. & St. Paul railroad
company from 1875 to 1879, and in 1881 came very near being elected to the
U. S. Senate. He was a deleagte at large to the Republican National
convention of 1884.

Mr. BOWMAN's private life was of exemplarary character. He possessed an
unbending will and resolute purpose, and those were his strongest
characteristics. So he was a warm true friend, and "a good hater." But
withal he had a heart to feel, and the world will never know the half of
the kindly acts and charitable deeds of Jonathan BOWMAN.