Notes for Alonzo Potter Bowie

Notes for Alonzo Potter Bowie

!US Census 1910 (19 April) Pennsylvania, Fayette Co., 3rd Ward Uniontown Boro, Series T624_1346 Part 2, SD 22 ED 91, Sheet 9A, Page 177A, House No. 107 Morgantown St., Lines 10-15: Alonzo P. Bowie (b. 1847 - 63 - in PA - Occ: Physician Gen. Practice - Fa: MD and Mo: PA) married 22 years to Mary R. (b. 1854 - 56 - in PA - Fa: VT and Mo: PA) having 2 children born and 2 still living. Children listed (born in PA) are: Eleazar P. (son b. 1889 - 21); and Elizabeth W. (dau b. 1892 - 18). ALSO LISTED are: Alicia Harper (b. 1888 - 22 - in NC - Occ: Servant - Fa: NC and Mo: NC) married 1 year to William Harper (b. 1888 - 22 - in VA - Occ: Waiter Hotel - Fa: VA and Mo: VA)

!Nelson's History of Fayette County Pennsylvania, 1920, Vol 3, pg. 561-562: Dr. Alonzo Potter Bowie was born in Uniontown, March 31, 1847. He is a son of Lucien B. and the late Margaret (Graham ) Bowie, the former a native of Montgomery County, Maryland, and the latter of Fayette County, Pa. The Bowies are of S cotch descent, the American family of that name having as founders two brothers who settled in Maryland in 1627. Dr . Bowie's paternal grandmother was Ann Calvert, of Bladensburg, Maryland, of historic Calvert family of that State. Hugh Graham, Dr. Bowie's maternal grandfather, came to the United States from the North of Ireland about 1800, locating in Western Pennsylvania. John Bowie, the paternal grandfather, died in Maryland. His widow came with her children to Pennsylvania, locating at Chambersburg, where the children were reared. About 1835 she brought her family to Uniontown, where she died in 1856. Her son Lucien was for more than fifty years a pharmacist in Uniontown, retiring from business in 1892, since which time he has resided in Menallen township. Alonzo P. Bowie completed his general education at Madison Institute, Uniontown, following which he clerked in his father's store until 1865. The next year he was engaged in the same business in Pittsburg, then taking up the study of medicine, with a decided leaning towards the new (Homeopathic) school. Investigation and study strengthened his belief in this direction. He entered Philadelphia University and was graduated therefrom, and has since taken special courses in practical medicine. He entered upon the practice of his profession at Uniontown, where he has ever since been located. Dr. Bowie may be appropriately designated the pioneer practitioner of his school in Faye tte county, having persisted under decidely adverse initia l experiences and gaining for Homeopathy a most substantial recognition. He is a senior member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, one of the incorporators and now first vice-president of the Pennsylvania Homeopathic Medical society, and has been since its foundation a contributor to the medical literature of that society. He was a member for several years of Uniontown council, and during that period was, in conjunction with the late William McCormick, a most zealous advocate for the establishment of a water works for the supply of Uniontown. He has assisted in every enterprise looking towards the locating of manufacturing plants in Uniontown, and is one of the owners of the glass works. He was married January 17, 1887, to Mary, daughter of the late Eleazer Robinson. Dr. and Mrs. Bowie have two children--Eleazer R. and Elizabeth Wilson Bowie, and are members of St. Peter's Episcopal church, of which Dr. Bowie has been a vestryman since 1868, and from which he has been delegate a number of times to the diocesan convention. He is now sectreatry of the vestry. The family reside at 107 Morgantown street and have their summer home in their cottage on Pine Knob. Dr. Bowie is a charter member of the Uniontown Council of the Royal Arcanum. He is a member and takes a prominent part in the duties of Tonnaleuka Lodge, No. 365, I.O.O.F., from which he has been sent three times as a representative to the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.