Biography of Clarence A. Bowman, pages 911/912.  History of DeKalb County, 
Indiana; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1914.

Clarence A. Bowman

	One of the progressive and representative farmer of Smithfield 
township, DeKalb county, Indiana, is the gentleman whose name appears at 
the head of this review.  His has been an eminently active and useful life, 
but the limited space at the disposal of the biographer forbids more than a 
casual mention of the leading events in his career, which, in our opinion, 
will suffice to show what earnest and intelligent endeavor and honest of 
purpose rightly applied and persistently followed will lead to---unqualified 
success.
	Clarence A. Bowman was born in Cass county, Michigan, on October 28, 
1881, and is the son of Archie and Alice (Kelley) Bowman, who are specifically 
represented elsewhere in this work.  He grew up on his father’s farm, 
securing a good, practical education, which he afterwards supplemented by 
a two years’ course in an agricultural college in Lansing, Michigan, 
graduating with the class of 1901.  At the age of twenty-one years he began 
farming on his own account on a splendid tract of land in section 35, 
Smithfield township, DeKalb county, Indiana, which had been bought in 
early days by his paternal grandfather, Cyrus Bowman, and to the 
cultivation and improvement of this land he has continuously devoted his 
time and attention since.  Mr. Bowman is an enthusiastic, up-to-date 
farmer, taking a deep interest in whatever pertains to progress in his 
chosen calling, not hesitating to adopt new methods where he sees their 
advantage over old ones.  To this end he has taken short courses in 
scientific farming at Purdue an also at Auburn, and is now chairman of the 
Farmers’ Institute of Waterloo.  He gives careful and personal attention 
to every detail of his farm work and is eminently entitled to the success, 
which is his.
	On May 21, 1905, Mr. Bowman was united in marriage with Dora Lutz, 
daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Hamman) Lutz, who were native respectively of 
Ohio and Indiana, and are mentioned elsewhere in the pages of this work. 
To this union has been born one daughter, Thelma, who first saw the light 
of day on May 28, 1907.
	Fraternally, Mr. Bowman is an active member of the Independent Order 
of Odd Fellows and the Gleaners, in the workings of which orders he is 
deeply interested.  Mr. and Mrs. Bowman move in the best circles in their 
community, and none are more popular or held in higher esteem for their 
uprightness of character and genial attributes than they.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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