Bowen, Asa B
physician, surgeon, was born April 12, 1842, in Eastford, Conn. After a preparatory course in the Mexico academy, New York, he taught several terms in the district schools of that town. In 1864-65 he served one year the American man-of-war Neptune, in the medical department, nearly all the time cruising about the West Indies. In 1868 he on graduated from the Albany Medical college, then devoted some time to clinical study in New York city; and since 1869 has practiced his profession in Maquoketa, Iowa. He is a member of the Iowa State.
Medical society; of the American Medical association; of the National Association of Railway Surgeons; and of the Masonic fraternity, lodge, chapter and commandery. During 1878-92 he was as United States pension examining surgeon; in 1872-85 commissioner of insanity for Jackson county; for three years a member of the school board; and local surgeon for the Chicago and Northwestern railroad.
He is the author of Typhoid Fever and Its Treatment; Management of Compound Fractures; Scarlatina; and other valuable medical papers.
BOWEN, CHRISTOPHER COLUM- BUS, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 3, 1832, in Rhode Island. He settled in Charleston, S. C., in 1862; was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1867; and was elected a representative from South Carolina to the forueth and forty-first congresses.