Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Bowman, Goodloe Harper April 20, 1803 - January 30, 1874
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 252
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    Goodloe Harper Bowman.  The late Goodloe Harper Bowman 
who died at Brownsville, January 30, 1874, was during his 
life pre-eminently one of the ablest and most highly 
respected business men of the county, and his life was 
without stain or blot.  His family is an old and very 
respectable one.  He was the third son of Jacob Bowman and 
Isabella Lowry Bowman, the former of English-German 
extraction, and the latter of Scotch-Irish descent.  
    Goodloe H Bowman was born in Brownsville, April 20, 
1803, and his educational advantages were none of the best.  
He attended the subscription schools of Brownsville only a 
few terms before entering the store of his father, who 
carried on a general mercantile business at that time at 
Brownsville.  Young Bowman soon developed an unusual talent 
for business, and formed a co-partnership with his brother, 
N B Bowman, on the retirement of their father, Jacob Bowman, 
from business.  They continued in the general mercantile 
business from 1832 to 1655.
    Goodloe Harper Bowman was elected cashier of the 
Monongahela Bank of Brownsville in September, 1830, and 
filled the position most acceptably for about twelve years 
when he resigned on account of the passage of an act by the 
legislature of Pennsylvania, which prohibited a cashier from 
engaging in any other business; and he was not disposed to 
relinquish his mercantile business for the cashiership.
    He became president of the Monongahela Bank of 
Brownsville in 1857, and the successor of his brother James 
L Bowman, who went in as president in 1843, as the successor 
of their father Jacob Bowman, the first president of the 
bank.  Under the administration of the Bowmans, the bank 
attained the fine reputation that it still possesses, as a 
reliable and prosperous institution.
    Mr Bowman on January 9, 1840, married Miss Jane Correy 
Smith of Reading, Berks county, Penna.  He left five 
children, namely: Isabella Lowry Bowman, now Mrs Loeser; 
James L Bowman; John Howard Bowman; Ann S Bowman; and 
William Robert Bowman.  Jane Corry Smith Bowman, who died 
August, 1877, was the daughter of John Smith of English 
descent, who married Elizabeth Bull, daughter of Colonel 
Bull, a native of Berks county, Penna.  He was a highly 
respected and very prominent man in eastern Pennsylvania.
    Mr Bowman was for many years senior warden at Christ 
Protestant Episcopal church of Brownsville.  He was a 
consistent church member, an able and honest businessman, a 
kind husband, an affectionate father-a model man.  

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