Rowe, Henry Clark
was born April 23, 1851, in New Haven, Conn. He is the pioneer in deep water oyster culture in Long Island sound, and he received the first grant of oyster ground outside of the harbors in 1874. From 1875 until thê present time he has secured such legislation from year to year as the growth of the business required. During 1897 he planted nearly three million bushels of shells and other material on his grounds, which comprise nearly ten thousand acres.
He is regarded as an authority on the propagation and culture of oysters; and is the author of The Oyster Industry; and various papers read before the International Fisheries congress at Chicago in 1893, and before other societies.