| Centennial History of Susquehanna County,
Pennsylvania by: Rhamanthius M. Stocker reprinted by: Regional Publishing Company, Baltimore 1974 |
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| (No Spencer # assigned) | Alexander W. Rowley was born in 1818 in Greene County, NY, and died at Susquehanna in 1878. He came to Susquehanna in 1851, and the next year erected the store now occupied by Morris Prendergast and Thomas Reilly, where for a number of years he conducted a tin-shop and kept in stock stoves, tin and copper-ware and a general line of hardware. In 1854 he was appointed postmaster, and the post office was kept in his store. Subsequently he sold his store and goods, and engaged in lumbering, furnishing lumber, cross ties and fencing material for the railroad company in large quantities. He was Justice of the Peace in Greene County, NY, before coming here. He left behind him a most enviable name and reputation, and was a man held in high esteem by the people. |
| (No Spencer # assigned) | Augustus Perry Rowley, M.D., son of Alexander William and Ann Caroline (Priest) Rowley, was born at Susquehanna, PA, 1859. He was educated at Newton Collegiate Institute, Sussex Co., NJ; commenced reading medicine with Dr. E. N. Smith, of Susquehanna, in the fall of 1878; attending lectures at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, where he graduated in the spring of 1882. In the summer of the same year he commenced practice at Norfolk, VA, but returned north, and in the spring of 1883 attended the post-graduate course at the University of Pennsylvania; began practice at Susquehanna in the fall of 1883, and in the spring of 1884 entered into partnership with Dr. E. N. Smith, remaining with him until the spring of 1886, when he removed to Creston, Ogle County, IL, and thence at the end of three months to Chicago, his present residence. He joined the Susquehanna Medical Society in 1885. |
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