Central California Biographies

A memorial and biographical history of the coast counties of Central California : illustrated : containing 
a history of this important section of the Pacific coast from the earliest period of its discovery to the 
present time, together with glimpses of its auspicious future, illustrations and full-page portraits of 
some of its eminent men, and biographical mention of many of its pioneers, and prominent citizens of 
to-day (1893)

Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Publishing Company
Author: Barrows, Henry D; Ingersoll, Luther A

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

 


JAMES S. ROWE, a California pioneer of 1854, now residing near San Juan, in San Benito 
county, was born in Dorchester, Grafton county, New Hampshire, April 27, 1833. In 1854 
he left home for California, going via the Isthmus of Panama, arriving in due time in San 
Francisco. He was engaged for the first five years in mining in Placer, Tuolumne and other 
counties, but finally entered the wood business, which he followed in San Joaquin county 
and San Juan, near which latter place he now farms eighty-five acres. He has prospered 
and now has a competence for himself and family. 

He was married in December, 1873, to Miss Sarah Twitchell, an intelligent lady, and 
daughter of a widely known resident of this State. There are nine children: Jasper 
Twitchell; Harrison H.; Sarah E. Roe; Nancy J., now Mrs. Norman Berry, Jasper Abra- 
ham; Clarinda, now Mrs. A. Rotha; Elijah, Lettie and Amanda.