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Wyandot Co.,OH History 1884
Crawford Twp.
JAMES BOWLBY was born in Stark County, Ohio. December 8, 1831. His parents, James and Sarah (Gross) Bowlby, were natives of New Jersey and Pennsylvania respectively. They came to Ohio in 1831, located in Stark County, and reared to maturity a family of thirteen children, namely, Joseph, Rachel, Emanuel, John, Jacob, Hannah, Maria, James, Mary, Samuel, Elizabeth, Catharine and Sarah; the deceased are Rachel, John, Mary and Samuel. The family moved to Crawford County, near Galion, where the father died in 1870, in his seventy-fourth year, his wife having preceded him in 1859, closing her life in her fifty-seventh year. James Bowlby, who is the subject of this sketch, was introduced to this county in 1852. He married Amanda Grindle, January 1, 1858, and purchased a saw mill west of Carey, operating the same eight years, when it was destroyed by fire. He rebuilt the mill, and just eight years afterward it was again destroyed by fire. He rebuilt a third, and in January, 1883, he sold out and removed to Carey, entering the employ of Watson & Co., as foreman of the saw mill department of their saw mill and planing mill. Mr. and Mrs. Bowlby are parents of nine children-Ellen, Emma L., Alice A., Hattie, Rolland D., Orville C., Noland H., Alfred B. and Joseph W. Mr. Bowlby is a charter member of the Knights of Labor, and a citizen of industrious habits and good character.