Biography of Robert and Styles Rowe, Sebastian Co, AR ********************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org ********************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- page 1362 Robert A. and Styles T. Rowe, attorneys at law, real estate agents and abstractors of titles, are natives of Crawford County, Ga., and Pike County, Ala., born March 5, 1857, and May 28, 1861, respectively. They are sons of Daniel and Margaret A. (Taylor) Rowe, and grandsons of Joshua and Elizabeth (Rigby) Rowe, who were natives of South Carolina, born in 1780, both of whom died on the same day in Crawford County, Ga., in 1840. Joshua Rowe was a Missionary Baptist preacher. Daniel Rowe was born in Georgia in 1822, and was of English descent. He was a farmer, and also a minister in the Missionary Baptist Church. He was married three times, his first wife being Miss Caroline Dearn, his second Miss Sarah Horn, and his third Miss Margaret A. Taylor, who was born in Crawford County, Ga., in 1832, and a descendant of Gen. Zachary Taylor. She was married to Mr. Rowe in 1856. Daniel Rowe resided in Georgia until 1857, when he moved to Pike County, Ala., and in the first of 1872 became a citizen of Sebastian County, Ark., settling one and a half miles east of the county seat. He died November 19, 1876. He was engaged in his ministerial duties the greater part of his life, and had charge of four churches in Alabama, and two in Sebastian County. His wife is yet living, and is the mother of four children: Robert A.; Daniel, who is residing on the old home place; Mary F., wife of John Carter, and Styles T. Robert A. was educated in the common-schools and in the State University of Arkansas, at Fayetteville, where he attended two years. At the age of twenty years he commenced teaching school, and followed this occupation nine terms in all in Sebastian County, meeting with good success. In 1877, or during his teaching, he began the study of law, his preceptor being Hon. C. B. Neal, and was admitted to the bar November 28, 1882, in Greenwood, Ark. He was married to Miss Jennie E. Jarrell, who [p.1362] was born in Rutherford County, Tenn., September 23, 1864, and who bore him one child, Mamie A. Styles T. was educated in the home schools, and at the family fireside, and at the age of nineteen he entered the teacher's profession, which he followed for three terms in In 1878 he began the study of law under Hon. C. B. Neal, and was admitted to the bar the same year as his brother, Robert A. Immediately after being admitted they opened a law office, with the firm of Rowe & Rowe, and have since been actively engaged in the practice of law. They have met with excellent success, and in connection with their legal pursuits are also handling real estate. They are temperate, and are men much esteemed by all who know them. Styles T. was married May 23, 1884, to Miss Emma C. Patton, who was born in Sebastian County, Ark., August 20, 1859, and who became the mother of three children by her marriage: Prentiss E., Cherub (deceased) and Emma. For the past six years Robert A. Rowe has held the office of deputy circuit clerk for Sebastian County, and is a member of the city council of Greenwood. In 1884 he was a candidate for clerk before primary, and was defeated by nine votes. Styles T. Rowe has also held a commission as deputy court clerk for five years. Both brothers are Democrats in politics, and both are members of the K. of H. Styles T. Rowe and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and Mrs. Robert A. Rowe is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. The brothers both clerked in the store of Thomas McCord, Robert A. for a year, and Styles T. for two years.