John M. Rowe was a native of Noble County, Ohio, where he was born on May 18, 1848. He settled in this township and commenced the duties of a teacher in 1871. He has been very successful as a teacher. He taught eight terms in Windsor township, and seven in Scott Town. He is also engaged in farming.
The father of Mr. Rowe, David, was born in February 1776, in Caroline County, Maryland. He emigrated to Ohio in 1815, settling at Barnesville, Belmont county. From there he was removed to Lexington, Noble county, in 1817, where he cleared one of the first farms in that part of the country. In 1856 he was removed to Lawrence county, Windsor township, where he spent the remainder of his days, dying on March 24, 1879.
His wife, Mary (Miller) Rowe, was born in October 1800 and is still living in this township. John Rowe was married in this township, on September 3, 1876, to Laura A., daughter of Harrison and Martha (Blackburn) McConnell. Her father was born in Pennsylvania, on October 9, 1826, and came to this county in 1840. He was a teacher, and superintendent of instruction for the latter part of his life. He died on May 6, 1871.
His wife was born in Greenup County, Kentucky, on September 9, 1835. Her father, Jerry Blackburn, was one of the early pioneers of Lawrence county. He was engaged in the furnaces when he became superintendent of Ohio and other furnaces. He died in Alabama in 1877.
John Rowe was in the war of 1861. He enlisted in Company D, 45th Kentucky Mounted Infantry, in August 1863; was discharged in 1864. He was in the battles of Mount Sterling, King’s Salt Works, and other engagements. Mr. Rowe was a clerk of Windsor township for one term, in 1874. They have one child, Maud H., born February 24, 1878.
While in the United States service Mr. Rowe was attacked with measles, which settled in his spine, causing curvature of the spine, and a separation of three of his ribs on each side of the spinal column. It sorely afflicts him at present. One of Mr. Rowe’s brothers, Leander C., was pressed into the Confederate service, where he remained for two years, then deserted.
He then entered the Federal army in the 2nd Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Company K. Was sergeant of his company. He died June 1864, in the Cavalry Hospital, at Washington, D. C. Address Mr. Rowe at Dobbston post office, Lawrence county, Ohio.
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