Person:Ambrose Nowlin (1)

AMBROSE E. NOWLIN^S1, collector of internal revenue for the Sixth district of Indiana, with offices at Lawrenceburg, was born in Dearborn county, Ind., in the year 1843, and has been a resident of the county all his life. His father, Jerry Nowlin, was born in Kentucky in 1806, but came with his father to Indiana while still in his boyhood. He passed his life as a farmer in Dearborn county and died there in 1873. Ambrose received his early education in the common schools, afterward graduating in the scientific course from Miami university, at Oxford, Ohio. From college he returned home and took up farming as an occupation, which he has followed ever since. In 1890 he was one of the five supervisors of the census in Indiana, and in 1894 was elected auditor of the county. Notwithstanding Dearborn county is generally Democratic by a majority of seven or eight hundred he was elected by a plurality of three hundred. After serving two years as auditor he resigned to accept his present position, having received the appointment from President McKinley in 1897. Mr. Nowlin is a director in the People's bank, which he helped to organize twenty-two years ago. He is a Knight of Pythias and a member of Lawrenceburg Lodge, No. 4, Free and Accepted Masons. In 1870 he was married to Flora B., daughter of W. H. Baker, of Dearborn county. They have one daughter, Margaret, now the wife of M. W. Fisk. Their son, Oakey, after completing his education and becoming established in business with bright prospects for a successful career, was stricken with typhoid fever and died just as he was entering the twenty-second year of his life.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Ambrose E Nowlin , in Memoirs of the lower Ohio Valley : personal and genealogical with portraits. (Madison, Wisconsin: Federal Publishing Company, 1905)
   Page 84, 1905.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Greendale Cemetery, Greendale, in Find A Grave.

   Ambrose E Nowlin
   Grave marker reads:
   Ambrose E Nowlin
   Aug 6, 1843
   Oct 13, 1931
   
   Flora E Baker
   Wife of A E Nowlin
   Dec 29, 1840
   Sept 5, 1923
   
   Margaret P
   Only Daughter of
   A E & F B Nowlin
   Mar 19, 1876
   Feb 14, 1972
   
   Oakey E
   Only Son of
   A E & F B Nowlin
   June 3, 1872
   June 26, 1894

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Fagundes , Shirley. Lee Family Tree re: Nowlin
   Imported:04 May 2002.
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Edmund West (compiler). Family Data Collection - Births (not a reliable source). (Ancestry.com Operations Inc).

   Nowlin, Ambrose E; Father: Nowlin, Jeremiah H; Mother: Blasdel, Pamelia; Birth Date: 6 August 1843 City: Dearborn; County: State

5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 Nowlin, Ambrose E; Father: Nowlin, Jeremiah H; Mother: Blasdel, Pamelia; Birth Date: 6 August 1843 City: Dearborn; County: State, in History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana: from their earliest settlement : containing a history of the counties, their cities, townships, towns, villages, schools, and churches, reminiscences, extracts, etc., local statistics, portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, preliminary chapters on the history of the North-west Territory, the state of Indiana, and the Indians. (Chicago: F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885).