Lincoln County, West Virginia The Biography of Winfield Scott BOWLES, M. D. The Biography of Winfield Scott BOWLES, M. D. was submitted by Pat R. Adkins, E-mail address: This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardestry's Historical and Geographical encyclopedia, New York: H. H. Hardesty and Company, 1884. Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia. Ed. Jim Comstock. Richwood: Comstock. 1974. WINFIELD SCOTT BOWLES, M D was born in Nelson County, Virginia, October 26, 1851, and his parents are Nathaniel Parrish and Martha Miller (Gay) Bowles. His father died March 22, 1881, and his mother died December 29, 1863. In Brownstown, West Virginia December 28, 1876, Winfield S. Bowles and Roxie Lena Woods were joined in wedlock and their home has been brightened by two children; Guy Augustus, born November 4, 1877; Eva Gay, November 25, 1879, Mrs. Bowles was born in Cabell county, West Virginia November 23, 1853 and she is a daughter of Lewis G. and Lizzie Prince (Claughton) Woods; the former died in 1863 and the later is still living in Missouri. Six brothers of W. S. Bowles, Charles, Samuel, William, Oscar, Walter, and Augustus, were in the late war. They were all on the Confederate side: William in Pickett's division and the others in J. N. Lambkin's Company. Haskell's Battalion. Oscar, Walter. and William were wounded. Winfield S. Bowles was constable in Nelson county, Virginia, and Kanawha county, West Virginia, and is at present a member of the board of health in Lincoln county, Dr. Bowles attended medical lectures at St Louis, Missouri, in 1879 and at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1881. He is a physician and surgeon, attending promptly all calls day or night. Address, Hamlin, Lincoln county, West Virginia.