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Dayton Daily Journal, July 8, 1934, Our Forefathers Column by Lindsay Brien
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Queries: Steele-information desired of parentage of Mary Steele, wife of Captain William Lytle. Was her father Adam Steele, born in Ireland about 1715, whose daughter, Agnes Steele, born in Ireland 1743, and died in Erie county, Pennsylvania, 1813, married in 1765 to Charles Pollock? H. P. B., Washington D. C.......Answers: Steele-H. P. B. Mary Steele, wife of Captain William Lytle was the daughter of Richard and Rebecca (McKenzie) Steele, according to Lytle family records. "Richard Steele emigrated from Ireland and settled near the present site of Mercersburg, Pa. He married Rebecca McKenzie and they had eight children. After his death the widow with her son, Richard, and two daughters, Jane and Mary, moved to Kentucky in 1799 and settled first at the falls of the Ohio, later on farms near Lexington, Ky. Richard Steele, Jr. was an elder in the Pisgah Presbyterian church on the Lexington and Versailles roads. He married Martha McKenzie and had 11 children. Jane Steele, daughter of the immigrant, married John Hueston and had eight children. Mary Steele, born in Pennsylvania, August 15, 1736, married William Lytle October 27, 1761, and died 1809 at the home of her son-in-law, John Rowan, at Bardstown, Kentucky."
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Name: John Rowan
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1820
Event Place: Bloomfield, Nelson, Kentucky, United States
Page: 223
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M33
Affiliate Film Number: 19
GS Film Number: 0186179
Digital Folder Number: 005156974
Image Number: 00197
Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHLH-8PZ : accessed 18 September 2020), John Rowan, Bloomfield, Nelson, Kentucky, United States; citing p. 223, NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 19; FHL microfilm 186,179.
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Name: John Rowan
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1830
Event Place: Eastern District, Nelson, Kentucky, United States
Page: 129
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M19
Affiliate Film Number: 40
GS Film Number: 0007819
Digital Folder Number: 005155888
Image Number: 00257
Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHPG-43H : 24 August 2017), John Rowan, Eastern District, Nelson, Kentucky, United States; citing 129, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 40; FHL microfilm 7,819.
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Name: John Rowan
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1840
Event Place: Nelson, Kentucky, United States
Event Place (Original): West Division, Nelson, Kentucky, United States
Page: 4
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M704
Affiliate Film Number: 121
GS Film Number: 0007831
Digital Folder Number: 005154538
Image Number: 00015
Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHTG-PX7 : 19 May 2020), John Rowan, Nelson, Kentucky, United States; citing p. 4, NARA microfilm publication , (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll ; FHL microfilm .
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John Rowan
Birth: 12 Jul 1773 York, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: 13 Jul 1843 (aged 70) Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Burial: Rowan Family Cemetery, Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky, USA
Memorial #: 7909136
Bio: US Congressman, US Senator. Born near York, Pennsylvania, he moved with his family as a young boy to Kentucky, where he was educated in local schools. He studied law, and was admitted to the Kentucky Bar in 1795. In 1801 he was involved in a duel where he shot and killed another man, and was later acquitted due to insufficient evidence. He served as Kentucky's Secretary of State from 1804 to 1806, then was elected as a Republican to represent Kentucky's 3rd Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1807 to 1809. He then served as an Appeals Court Judge and in the Kentucky State Legislature before being elected as a Senator from Kentucky to the United States Senate in 1824. He served a single term from 1865 to 1831, and was defeated in his attempt to secure re-election by Henry Clay.
Family Members
Spouse
Agnes Ann Lytle Rowan 1774-1829
Children
Mary Jane Rowan Steele
Eliza Cooper Rowan Harney 1798-1815
William Lytle Rowan 1802-1833
Atkinson Hill Rowan 1803-1833
John Rowan 1807-1855
Anna Rowan Buchanan 1812-1876
Alice Douglas Rowan Wakefield 1813-1854
Maintained by: Find a Grave
Originally Created by: Tim Crutchfield (815)
Added: 26 Sep 2003
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7909136/_
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 18 September 2020), memorial page for John Rowan (12 Jul 1773–13 Jul 1843), Find a Grave Memorial no. 7909136, citing Rowan Family Cemetery, Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave .
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