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Josiah Lemuel Rowe, the third child of Squire W. and Dolly (Castle) Rowe, served in the 2nd Michigan Infantry during the Civil War and participated in many of its engagements. He was taken prisoner at Knoxville, Tennessee, and held captive for fourteen months before escaping from a railroad car in which he was being transported. He remained at large for four weeks before being recaptured and sent to Columbia, South Carolina. Later transferred to Florence, Alabama, he escaped a second time, wandering five weeks in Confederate territory before reaching the Union line in Tennessee. His health broken by his ordeal, he removed to San Diego, California, where died on July 19, 1880.
Benjamin Nelson Rowe, the fourth child, is said by one source to have been crippled from birth and required a cane to walk. Immediately after the Civil War he worked as a clerk in three Washington, D.C. hospitals. He too moved west for his health, initially settling in Colorado where he married and started a family. He eventually removed to California where he died on February 14, 1926.
Squire Lowell Rowe, the fifth child, was also crippled from birth, although not as severely as his brother Benjamin. He opened a jewelry store in Milford, Michigan, in 1871, but after his marriage to Amelia Horton Jackson in 1875 he headed west to join his brother Benjamin in California. After a few years, however, he returned to Milford and reopened his store, which he operated until his death on September 4, 1921.
Marion C. Rowe, the sixth child, married Henry V. Holmes and removed to Duluth, Minnesota. Her sister and seventh child, Theodosia M. Rowe, married Alexander D. Hagadorn, and settled in Lansing, Michigan.
Judson L. Rowe, the eighth and last child, was also called Lucius Judson Rowe. He married first, September 24, 1873, Addie Crosby, who died in 1875 giving birth to son George Dorr Rowe. Judson L. Rowe thereafter removed to Erie, Pennsylvania, where he married second, October 17, 1833, Elizabeth Dunning, by whom he had a daughter, Adda Reno Rowe. He is seen here with his second wife in this enlargement of a previous photo. Judson died at Erie on March 19, 1938.
