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| William Granville Bowman (1876) |
Gallatin County ILGenWeb
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HON. WILLIAM GRANVILLE BOWMAN, lawyer, Shawneetown, was born in Pulaski County, Kentucky, January 7, 1829. His parents were J. Winston and Mary Bowman. At the age of fourteen he left home, and having learned the printer's trade at Independence, Missouri, became editor of the Western Expositor of that city in 1848 & 1849. He then taught school in Kentucky, Tennessee and Illinois. He studied nad was admitted to the bar at Shawneetown in 1856; was Judge of Gallatin County Court two terms; elected member of the Constitutional Conventoin in 1869, and elected to the State Legislature in 1871. Mr. Bowman has always been a Democrat, and has been influential in securing the local lines of railway centering at Shawneetown, and developing the coal, iron and salt mines in that region.
[1876. The Atlas of Illinois.]
Submitted by Jon Musgrave
©2000 Jon Musgrave
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