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Young (JESSE BOWMAN an American)

JESSE BOWMAN, an American clergyman, author, and editor; born in Berwick, Pa., July 5, 1844; waf graduated at Dickinson College in 1868; served three years in the Union army in the Civil War, ending as captain in the 84th Pennsylvania Volunteers; entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1868, and was pastor in Pennsylvania and Kansas City, Mo.; editor of the "Central Christian Advocate" (1892-1900); etc. He wrote: "What a Boy Saw in the Army"; "Days and Nights on the Sea"; "Helps for the Quiet Hour" (1900). He died in 1914.