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W. F. Rowell

Republican

Date Party Office Votes Result
11-06-1894 Republican AD-63 0 Win
Website: www.findagrave.com/memorial/41503023/william-franklin-rowell
 

Candidate Biography:

William Franklin Rowell
Born: September 15, 1838 in Woodsville, New Hampshire
Married: Mary Isabelle Dickinson
Children: Gertrude F. and Jonathan
Family: Brother of Chester Rowell
Military Service: ARMY (Civil War)
Died: May 13, 1912 in San Jose, CA

  • During the 1895 Session, Rowell (of AD-63) and Nathan LaFayette Bachman (of AD-62) discovered that they had fought opposite each other in a number of battles (Rowell for the Union, Bachman for the Confederacy) and became intimate friends, and so remained, for years helpful in their fraternal exchanges. [Source: FindAGrave]