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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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532 AISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Board of School Trustees of Lagoon District.
He is a man highly respected, of excellent business yualifications, and a citizen of whose adoption this country may well be proud.
ret ode tbe Spe see —
was born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, November 10, 1844, his parents being
James, Sr., and Margaret (Allison) Bowie.
Our subject, who lost his father by death
when a mere child, was reared at his native
place to the age of seventeen years. Then, in
1861, in response to the call for patriots to rise
in defense of their country’s flag, he enlisted at
Pittsburg in the Union cause, and was assigned to
Company K, Sixty-eecond Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and he cerved with his command
until the following spring in the vicinity of the
ational capital. He then went with the forces
of McClellan on the siege of Yorktown. After
the taking of that stronghold, he was next engaged at Hanover Court-house, and next followed in rapid succession the seven-days’ battles,
in which he was engaged in the following: Mechanicsville, Gaines’ Mill, White Oak Swamp,
and Malvern Hill.
After this he joined Pope, and with him was
engaged at the second battle of Bull Run, at
South Mountain, Antietam and Fredericksburg.
Under Ivoker, his next general commander, he
was in the thickest of the severe battle of Chancellorsville. Under Meade, who was his old
corps commander, he fought in the decisive battle of Gettysburg, and 80 fiercely was his command engaged that only seven remained of his
immediate company after the battle. Next
they marched to Mine Run, where they took
some part, though not participating in the
charge. After this they went into winter quarters, and during the cold season performed
guard duty along the line of the railroad trom
Rappahannock Station to Bristow.
When spring opened he again commenced
active campaign work with his command, and
Joon BOWIE, Sheriff of Trinity County,
in the battles of the Wilderness over half his
regiment lost their lives. After the continuous hard fighting there, he accompanied his
command to the vicinity of Petersburg, about
which place they served until midnight of July
3, 1864, when their term of enlistment having
expired, they went to Washington City, and
thence tu Pittsburg, where they were mustered
out. Mr. Bowie, who had participated personally in the greater portion of the heaviest
battles of the war, remained in Pittsburg until the last of October, when he started for Cal.
ifornia. Going to New York, he took the
steamer North Star for Aspinwall, thence croseed
the isthinue to Panama, and from there cuntinued his journey on the eteamer Sacramento
to San Francisco, where he landed abont the let
of December, 1864. After a few days he proceeded to Trinity County, and arrived at Weaverville on the 5th of December. He went to
mining on Indian Creek, and was so engaged
there and at Douglas until 1884, when he was
elected Sheriff of Trinity County. He has
held the office since, by virtue of three successive re-elections, and hence it goes without saying that he has given general eatisfaction in the
performance of the duties of his office of Sheriff
and Tax Collector, which latter he holds ezofficio.
Mr. Bowie is a member of Trinity. Lodge,
F. & A. M.; of Trinity Chapter, R. A. M.; of
North Star Lodge, No. 6, I. O. O. F.: of Stella
Encampment, and of C. F. Winslow Post, G.
A. R., of Redding.
He is avery popular man, enjoying the respect and esteem of all who know him.
ness inen of Marysville, are the sons of
Antone Christian,a nativeof France. Their
father was one of the first settlers of Marysville, coming in 1849, and was several times
driven out of his dwelling-place, which is where
Yuba City now stands. He surveyed the plat
Hrs anp AUGUST CHRISTIAN, busi-