Biography of Cyrus Bowman, page 764.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Cyrus Bowman, Postmaster, Waterloo, farmer and stock-raiser, a son of John 
and Matilda Bowman, was born in Van Buren, Onondaga County, N.Y., Nov. 9, 
1818.  His father was a native of New Jersey, and his mother of Connecticut.  
Mr. Bowman lived with his parents till he was twenty-one years old, and 
worked on his father’s farm.  He then came to this county where he spent 
three years a single life, clearing land, splitting rails, by the job, etc., 
and in the meantime cleared twenty acres  of 160 given him by his father, 
entered in the fall of 1838.  He then returned to his home in New York, 
where, June 15, 1843, he married Miss Rachel Waterman, a native of Van 
Buren, N.Y.  In the fall of 1843 he and his wife moved to this county, 
built a cabin in the woods where they lived until her death, Oct. 17, 1855.  
To them were born two children---Harriet Matilda, who died Oct. 8, 1855, 
aged nearly eleven years, and Rosa G., born June 19, 1851, now the wife of 
Phineas D. Childs, of Fairfield Township.  Sept. 4, 1858, Mr. Bowman was 
married to Sarah Ann Smith, his present wife, a native of Stark County, 
Ohio, but an early settler in this county,  They have two children---
Archie S., born July 1, 1859, a farmer of Cass County, Mich., and Fred C., 
born Nov. 1, 1866.  Fred is still at home, and superintends the work of 
the farm.  Mr. and Mrs. Bowman are now on the shady side of life very 
pleasantly situated, both of them of strict integrity, and loved and 
respected by all their acquaintances.

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