Family:Hiram Bowen and Louisa Cox (1)

1850 Census: Home in 1850(City,County,State): Kalamo, Eaton, Michigan
Household Members:
Edward E Bowen 2
Harriett Bowen 17
Hiram Bowen 49
Hiram Bowen 11
Jane Bowen 18
Louisa (Cox) Bowen 39
Louisa A Bowen 14
Wm L M Bowen 15

Daniel and Hiram Bowen, nephews of George W. Bowen, were the first two white settlers with their wives, to brave the wilderness in Kalamo.

In September 1836, Daniel B. Bowen was married at Shelby, New York, to Miss Beulah D. Cox, and in less than three weeks the newlyweds started for Michigan. They arrived in November and settled in the southwest part of the township, in the Evans district. Daniel's brother, Hiram, came at the same time with his wife [Louisa Cox, sister of Beulah] and four children. The Bowens had previously been here and had purchased land. It took them about a week to build shanties on their property. The day after their arrival, Daniel planted apple seeds in a sap trough, and from them he raised a fine orchard. The trees bore fruit six years later. In those days the Bowens furnished accommodations for numerous land hunters and for travelers en route to Vermontville. Harvey Wilson of Orleans County, New York, married a sister to Mrs. Daniel Bowen, and they moved to Kalamo in 1838. Wilson's brother, Peter, came later.
Sources: History of the Bowen-Green Families 1793 1928: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bowen/Bowens_Greens.html
Original source: A History of Kalamo Township: Kalamo Township Historical Society-1989, Page 3.