A volume of memoirs and genealogy of representative citizens of the city of Seattle and county of King, Washington, including biographies of many of those who have passed away . His father, James Har-.•e) Bowman, was born in the state of Pennsylvania and now resides in Seat-tle in the seventy-sixth year of his age. He married Miss Amanda Fuller,a lady of French lineage, although the family has been represented in Amer-ica through manv generations. The father of our subject served his country. U;J^v/Q-t>-Ur^>^»^-^3^i^ SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY. 121 valiantly in the Civil war as a defender o
A volume of memoirs and genealogy of representative citizens of the city of Seattle and county of King, Washington, including biographies of many of those who have passed away . His father, James Har-.•e) Bowman, was born in the state of Pennsylvania and now resides in Seat-tle in the seventy-sixth year of his age. He married Miss Amanda Fuller,a lady of French lineage, although the family has been represented in Amer-ica through manv generations. The father of our subject served his country. U;J^v/Q-t>-Ur^>^»^-^3^i^ SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY. 121 valiantly in the Civil war as a defender of the Union, for three and ahalf years, becoming a member of the Eleventh Kansas Cavalry, butnotwithstanding the fact that he was in many battles and often in the thickestof the fight he escaped wounds and capture and at the cessation of hostilitiesreceived an honorable discharge. In the family were three children: C. E-Bowman, a prominent member of the Seattle bar; Laura, the wife of , also of this city, and Alonzo C. During his early boyhood our subject was taken by his parents to Kan-sas and in the public schools of that state pursued his education and enteredupon his business career in the newspaper field, in Burton. He also becamethe official stenographer for that district, filling the position for three anda half years, during which time he took up the study of law, using his leisurehours for the mastery of the principles of jurisprudence. He was there ad-mitted to the b
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