U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Bowman, Leonard Clark (1845-1923) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Hu Maxwell The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899 Pages 339-340 Leonard Clark Bowman, born in Tucker County 1845, son of Henry Van Meter and Margaret (Wilmoth) Bowman, was married near Corrick's Ford, Tucker County, April 28, 1874, to Margaret Catherine, daughter of Jacob and Sarah Ryan (Long) Kalor. Mr. Bowman is a Democrat and a farmer, residing on Glady Creek, where he owns 200 acres of land, principally cleared, and underlaid with coal. He cleared nearly 100 acres of the farm himself after his return, about 1881, from Kansas, where he had resided five years and pre- empted 160 acres of land, which he sold. His farm is in good condition, with good residence and other buildings, and will graze twenty head of cattle, fifty sheep, besides stock to run the farm, and meadow to cut twenty-five or thirty haystacks yearly. He was educated in the public schools, and held the office of Justice of the Peace. He is a leader in educational matters, and while in Kansas was a school officer and assisted in organizing a free school system in his part of the country. Mrs. Bowman was living at the mouth of Pheasant Run, in Tucker County, in 1861, and the skirmish at Kalor's Ford, two hours before the battle at Corrick's Ford, was fought round the house where she lived, and many bullets struck the house. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATH-CERTIFICATE, Barbour County WV, #13015 Full-name: Leonard C. Bowman Birth: July 8, 1845 in W.Va. Death: Oct 17, 1923 in Belington, Barbour County, WV Marital-status: married Occupation: Farmer Father: Henry V. Bowman, born in W.Va. Mother: Margrett Wilmoth, born in W.Va. Informant: Mrs. Sopha Headrick of Elkins, WVa Cause-of-death: Broncho Pneumonia Burial: Fraternity Cemetery ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------