Abraham M. Bowen Biography

	This biography appears on page 461-462 in "History of Minnehaha 
	County, South Dakota" by Dana R. Bailey and was scanned, OCRed 
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BOWEN, ABRAHAM M., was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, March 19, 
1828; was reared on a farm, and educated in the public schools in Ohio, 
where his parents moved when he was very young.  When twenty-one years 
old he took charge of the home farm, his father dying at that time.  
During the civil war he was employed three years in the United States 
service, apart of the time as revenue assessor.  In 1882 came to this 
county and bought a farm in Wayne Township, and lived there several 
years, but sold it and moved into the city of Sioux Falls, where he now 
resides.  He has been upon the school boards in the various places 
where he has resided nearly forty years, has held township offices, and 
was one of the board of appraisers of damages for right of way in this 
county for the Illinois Central and the Willmar & Sioux Falls 
railroads.  Mr. Bowen has always been an active man, a thoroughly good 
citizen, and is highly esteemed.