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Lieut George Bowen

Birth	:	8 Jun 1789 Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
Death	:	6 Jan 1846 Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
Burial	:	Highland Cemetery, Gladwin, Gladwin County, USA
Coordinate	:	43.9749985, -84.4978027
Description	:	George was a store and tavern keeper, postmaster, dealer in drugs and medicine, surveyor, selectman, school committeeman, clerk of the probate court, and an officer in the militia in the War of 1812. He succeeded his father as store and tavern keeper. He was appointed Postmaster March 1, 1820, by R. J. Meigs, Postmaster-General. In 1829 he built the "new brick store," as the old one was not large enough to enable him to carry on his increasing business. (The old store is now standing, west of the Swedish Church parsonage, and is used as a dwelling.) George Bowen's stock of goods... Read More	George was a store and tavern keeper, postmaster, dealer in drugs and medicine, surveyor, selectman, school committeeman, clerk of the probate court, and an officer in the militia in the War of 1812. He succeeded his father as store and tavern keeper. He was appointed Postmaster March 1, 1820, by R. J. Meigs, Postmaster-General. In 1829 he built the "new brick store," as the old one was not large enough to enable him to carry on his increasing business. (The old store is now standing, west of the Swedish Church parsonage, and is used as a dwelling.) George Bowen's stock of goods was famous for its variety. Two of his townsmen had a dispute concerning the completeness of his stock. One of them wagered that Mr. Bowen had whatever the other might ask for. The doubting man called for a goose-yoke, and he got one; Mr. Bowen carried a line of goose-yokes. He held but few town offices; his business required his exclusive attention; still he was at one time and another elected Hayward, Sealer of Weights and Measures, Surveyor, Selectman, and Justice of the Peace. He was a School Committee-man, Clerk and Treasurer of the School Society, and Clerk and Treasurer of the Proprietors of Woodstock Academy, from March, 1814, to 1816. He was an officer of the first Agricultural Society formed in Windham County, and at one time he was chorister of the church choir. In 1831, when Woodstock was made a Probate District, he was chosen Clerk of the Court. He was a Lieutenant in the militia. During the War of 1812 there was a threatened attack upon New London, and a call was made upon the men of Woodstock belonging to the militia to go in all haste to New London. They did so; George Bowen was one of those who went, but his name does not appear in the lists of Connecticut men who took part in the War of 1812. The Church Society voted, September 26, 1820, that John McClellan, George Bowen, and Jedediah Kimball be a committed to superintend the building of a new meeting-house, "of the size & form of the one lately built in Killingly." On May 26, 1821, it was voted that George Bowen be one of a committee to sell the "Timber Boards & other Materials of the Old Meeting House that cannot be profitable used in a new one." It was voted August 13, 1821, that George Bowen "should furnish 20 lbs of Loaf Sugar @ 18c a lb & Wm K Green the spirit at 89c a Gallon for the raising - they being the lowest bidders." With the help of the sugar and the spirit, the meeting-house was successfully raised. It now stands in a prohibition community. At a town meeting held January 6, 1840, George Bowen asked for permission "to sell wines and spirituous liquors for medicinal purposes and know other," as the town clerk wrote in the minutes for that meeting. The moderator decided that the vote was against granting the application. Evidently at that time the men of Woodstock did not want the bother of securing a physician's prescription before getting their jugs filled, as they have to do now in no-license years in an adjoining town. An important branch of George Bowen's business was selling drugs and medicines. He was the first merchant in Windham County, it is said, to sell them; also the first to sell carpenters' and moulding tools. George Bowen was about five feet ten inches in height, of slight build and of delicate constitution. By reason of ill health, and later by paralysis, the result of being thrown from his chaise while driving down the hill south of the Haskell Tavern in Pomfret, he gave up his business to his son Edward. Mr. Bowen was held in high esteem by his neighbors and all those who knew him. Much of the above text taken from "Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut" by Edward Augustus Bowen, pp 151. He married Lydia Wolcott Eaton 13 Oct 1812 at Dudley, Worcester, Massachusetts. Children of George and Lydia are: Henry Chandler (1813-1896) Edward Eaton (1815-1887) Maria (1817-1850) Amelia Allen (1822-1881)

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Lieut George Bowen's memorial is located at: Highland Cemetery, Gladwin, Gladwin County, USA.
When did Lieut George Bowen death?
Lieut George Bowen death on 6 Jan 1846 in Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
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Latitude: 43.9749985
Longitude: -84.4978027

Family Members:

Parent

William Bowen

(1763 - 1837)

Mary Chandler Bowen

(1760 - 1831)

Spouse

Lydia Wolcott Eaton Bowen

(1793 - 1864)

Siblings

Col Matthew Bowen

(1794 - 1868)

William Bowen Jr.

(1800 - 1849)

Children

Henry Chandler Bowen

(1813 - 1896)

Edward Eaton Bowen

(1815 - 1887)

Maria Bowen Dickinson

(1817 - 1850)

Amelia Allen Bowen Fisk

(1822 - 1881)

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