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Thomas Bowman (Methodist Episcopal bishop)

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During his time at DePauw, Bowman presided over such significant events as the first admissions of women students and of the initial planning (and laying of the cornerstone) of East College. He also served on the university's board of trustees from 1887 to 1895, including a term as president of the
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as he saw Booth "prowling about the Capitol buildings and White House, and became convinced that his presence there boded ill for Mr. Lincoln". According to Bowman, Lincoln "laughingly made light of the warning."
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On July 13, 1841, Bowman was married to Matilda Hartman (1821-1879), a daughter of Johannes Hartman and Mary Magdalene (née Crouse) Hartman. Together, they were the parents of eleven children, including:
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Charles Gideon Bowman (1848–1924), who served as treasurer and manager of the Bowman Stamping Company; he married Florence H. Warren, after her death, he married Mattie Belle Overton.
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Brittain) Bowman (1786–1852) and John Bowman (1786-1843) and spent his boyhood days on a farm in eastern Pennsylvania. His maternal grandfather, Samuel Brittain, fought in the
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Upon his election to the episcopacy, Bowman resigned the Asbury presidency. As a bishop he officially visited all
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but he decided to leave the law and become a minister. Two years later he entered the traveling ministry of the
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This article is about a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. For the Evangelical Association bishop, see
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Bowman taught in the grammar school of Dickinson College from 1840 to 1843, and five years later founded
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in 1837 as the head of his class, chosen as valedictorian, and began the study of law at
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The "Patriarch of the Methodist Church" died at the age of 96 at his daughter's home in
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Clarence Mitchell Bowman (1858–1891), who married Elizabeth Amanda Binyon.
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Theodore Granville Bowman (1845–1923), who married Virginia Florence Lee.
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from May 1864 until March 1865 during the administration of his friend,
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While he was president of Indiana Asbury College, he also served as the
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Samuel Brittain Bowman (1856–1939), who married Mary Walden in 1884.
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conferences in the U.S., Europe, India, China, Japan and Mexico.
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Mary Crouse Bowman (1853–1937), who married George P. Smith of
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American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (1817–1914)
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Society, Sons of the American Revolution Colorado (1912).
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Burials at Forest Hill Cemetery (Greencastle, Indiana)
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Times, Special to The New York (November 23, 1903).
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Thomas Bowman (Evangelical Association bishop)

Indiana Asbury College
United States Senate Chaplain
Byron Sunderland
Edgar Harkness Gray
Dickinson Seminary
Berwick, Pennsylvania
East Orange, New Jersey
Forest Hill Cemetery
Greencastle, Indiana
Wilbraham Academy
Cazenovia Seminary
Alma mater
Dickinson College
Methodist Episcopal Church
bishop
Methodist Episcopal Church
Berwick, Pennsylvania
née
American Revolutionary War
Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Wilbraham Academy
Massachusetts
Cazenovia Seminary
B.A.
Dickinson College
Dickinson Law School
Baltimore
Annual Conference

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