Moses Rowell, Sr., was the son of Christopher Rowell of Amesbury, Massachusetts, and was born June 111764. He married Alice Currier, of Amesbury, and moved to Loudon in 1791, and located upon Bear Hill (so called), where he died Nov. 4, 1846. He married, the second time, Nancy Levitt, of Chichester, New Hampshire, and had a family of 10 children, named Captain John, Moses, Jr., Nancy, Micajah, Ruth, Asa C., Harris, Cyrus, Rufus and Sally L. Mr. Rowell was engaged for some length of time in teaming from Newburyport, Massachusetts, to Salisbury, New Hampshire.
Moses Rowell, Jr., was born March 21, 1793, and married Sophia French, daughter of John Levitt French, of Loudon, and had three children, named Perley W., John F. and Sarah Ann.
Perley W. Rowell was born December 22, 1823, and married Caroline Clark, of Pittsfield, New Hampshire, March 28, 1869, and had a family of two children, named Sarah W. and George W. Mr. Rowell lives upon the homestead of his father, and is a useful and highly respected citizen of his native town.
John F. Rowell was born Jan. 6, 1826, and is unmarried. He commenced his education at the common school in Loudon, and afterwards attended at Weare, Lee and Pembroke, New Hampshire, and graduated at Haverford College, Pennsylvania. He was eminently fitted for a teacher, which avocation he successfully followed for many years in his immediate locality. After which he was called to the Friends' School in Providence, Rhode Island and remained for 20 years. In 1875 he retired from this school, and, wearied with the duties have a teacher's life, went to California, and is extensively engaged in agriculture, together with the manufacture and sale of lumber, of which he has purchased a large and valuable tract. He is an enterprising and deserving man, and has, by his own efforts largely, acquired the position which he has so ably filled. The Rowell family are noted for intellect, ability and great firmness of principal, and are citizens who are interested and active in everything that advances and elevates the human race.

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