1880 History of Polk County
Biographies - Des Moines
J. Bowman
BOWMAN, J. - Physician and surgeon. Is a native of Maine, and was born April 10, 1849. When two years of age his parents moved to Virginia, and he was there raised and educated in the private schools, which he afterward supplemented by a classical course under Dr. Warren, in the Warren Academy, for one year. Then began the study of medicine in Illinois with his father, who went to that State in 1866. He also attended lectures at the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating from that institution in 1872. He then engaged in his profession in Illinois until 1875, when he came to this city. His marriage was in Clay county, Ills., May 23, 1875, to Miss Annie C. Ketchum, of that State. They have two sons: Jasper J., and Clendaur J.
Source: "The History of Polk County, Iowa" published by the Union Historical Company, Birdsall, Williams & Co. 1880, pg. 774.
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