History of the Town of Mansfield - Chapter XXXVI (36)
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Moses Bowen, born in Massachusetts, March 12, 1752, served two years in the Revolutionary war, and removed to Otsego county, where he was a farmer and cooper, and where he died in June, 1830. His wife was Martha Bell, who died there in 1824. Their son, Moses Bowen, born in Massachusetts, Feb. 9, 1796, came to Mansfield in 1830 and died here in 1882. His wife was Betsey Hopkins, who was born May 21, 1797, died in 1862. Children: George W. G., born May 27, 1823; Emily M., born March 20, 1825; Sarah A., born May 20, 1827; Hopkins, born in Sept., 1829; Bird, born in 1832; Cyrus H., born in April, 1834; Frank M., born in 1842; and Moses, born in 1844. George W. G. married Lucinda Meacham, who died Dec. 8, 1863; children: George H., born Oct. 4, 1849; Sarah M., born Feb. 6, 1853; John M., born Oct. 25, 1858; and Betsey, born Oct. 3, 1862. He married, second, Mrs. Lydia L. Harvey, daughter of William H. and Sally Eddy; children: Fanny B., born Oct. 21, 1865; Emily A., born June 6, 1867; Hattie L., born July 2, 1869; Mabel G., born Aug 10, 1871; William H., born Aug. 25, 1873; Ida V., born March 16, 1876; Eddy L., born June 29, 1879; and Bessie L., born July 1, 1883. Mr. Bowen is a farmer and carpenter in Eddyville and has been justice of the peace thirty years, postmaster ten years, and a resident here sixty years.
