Rowe, Wilhelmus
Birth
born in the town of Westerlo January 20, 1836, the son of Richard Rowe and Elizabeth Bogardus of Clarksville.[1]
Occupation
Wilhelmus was a contractor and builder and in 1856 went to Winona, in the then Territory of Minnesota, afterward to Memphis, Tenn. [1]
Military
He was in Tennessee at the outbreak of the Civil war and was conscripted in the rebel army, and after Beaureguard took command was detailed to guard prisoners from Corinth to Holly Springs, Miss.; was second lieutenant in a company of Home Guards. Immediately after the fall of Memphis he made his way north, and three months afterward was drafted in the Union army, but was exempted on the grounds of having been in the rebel army. [1]
Marriage & Children
In 1866 he married Elizabeth H. Bennett, daughter of Rushmore Bennett, of Clarksville, whose father, Daniel Bennett, was born at Stone near Berkley, Glostershire, England.[1]
They have three sons:
Additional Media
Rowe, Wilhelmus, was born in the town of Westerlo January 20, 1836.
Wilhelmus, his great-grandfather, came from Holland and grew to manhood in Dutchess county, N. Y. After he married he settled on a farm near O-nes-que-thaw, in the town of New Scotland, and died at eighty-eight; his wife died at ninety; he left two sons, Conrad and Frederick.
Conrad, the grandfather, was born in 1773 and died in 1848 on the farm where he was born; his wife was Sally Hoyt; they reared four sons, William, Richard, Henry and Samuel, and three daughters.
Richard, the father, was born in 1808 and died in 1891, was also a farmer; his wife was Elizabeth Bogardus, born in the town of Berne and was the daughter of John Bogardus; they reared three sons, Wilhelmus, John and Conrad, and three daughters. Mrs. Rowe died in 1876.
Wilhelmus was a contractor and builder and in 1856 went to Winona, in the then Territory of Minnesota, afterward to Memphis, Tenn. ; he was in Tennessee at the outbreak of the Civil war and was conscripted in the rebel army, and after Beaureguard took command was detailed to guard prisoners from Corinth to Holly Springs, Miss.; was second lieutenant in a company of Home Guards. Immediately after the fall of Memphis he made his way north, and three months afterward was drafted in the Union army, but was exempted on the grounds of having been in the rebel army. In 1866 he married Elizabeth H. Bennett, daughter of Rushmore Bennett, of Clarksville, whose father, Daniel Bennett, was born at Stone near Berkley, Glostershire, England, in 1777, and came to the United States in 1802; he married Abigail Rushmore of New Salem and settled on a farm near that village, where he died while still a young man, leaving three sons, William, Rushmore and Thomas, and one daughter.
Rushmore married Emily Whitcomb, who was a daughter of Roswell Whitcomb, a preacher in the Society of Friends; his father had come from Connecticut with pack and ax when Albany county was a comparative wilderness, to take up a farm under what was then considered the very ad- vantageous offer of the Albany patroon. Van Rensselaer; he settled in Berne. Mr. Bennett was a farmer and mill owner in Clarksville, and built the third house in that village ; he was a Republican in politics and his name appears on the first Republican county ticket, the ticket with white letters on a black ground, which gave to the Republican party the name of Black Republicans; he reared one son, Erasmus, and two daughters, and died in 1875; his wife in 1874.
Mr. and Mrs. Rowe still reside on the Bennett homestead, a farm of 200 acres, and have three sons, Erasmus B., born in 1866, R. Burton, born in 1872, and Anson H., born in 1882.
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