San Diego County Biographies
 
GEORGE W. BOWLER

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Among the members of the San Diego Pioneers' Association we find the name of 
George W. Bowler, who at the early age of four years began his pioneer course. 
In leaving Kansas City, Missouri, the home of his nativity, being with his parents, 
he traveled by wagon to the less civilized country of Montana, and at the
age of eight years they again started on their pioneer course by wagon for San 
Diego, California, which at that time, January, 1868, was a wild, unsettled 
country. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, August 24, 1860. His father 
was then in the employment of the Government as engineer of the roads across 
Kansas, New Mexico and that vicinity. The subject of this sketch was third in a 
family of six children, only four of whom survive; he received only a 
common-school education and then learned the trade of printing, and, feeling 
that the "pen was mightier than the sword,"�though having received but a common 
school education himself,�he would aid in enlightening others through the medium 
of the press; and as compositor he was connected with the San Diego News from 
1875 until 1880. He then went to Colorado, and for eighteen months was secretary 
of the Lady Franklin Mining Company at Silver Cliff. He was then employed by the 
Colorado Coal and Iron Company as agent and weigh-master for five years, 
traveling through the State. Returning to San Diego in 1887, he entered into the 
real-estate business, in which he is still employed. His father died in 1871, 
but his mother is still living, and is a member of his family.
        Mr. Bowler was married at Williamsburg, Fremont County, Colorado, August 
24, 1882, to Miss Mary Woodside, a native of Alton, Illinois. They have two 
children, both of whom are still living: Gertrude and William.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  150