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Author: GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD

FRANCIS F. STOWE, a merchant at Lockport, was born in Jamestown, N. Y., July 

11, 1834, a son of Nathaniel H. and Elizabeth (Partridge) Stowe, and a 

descendant of John Stowe, who emigrated from England in 1634 and settled in 

Middlesex County, Mass.  He was one of eight children, seven of whom are 

living.  One of these, Mrs. Eliza S. Twitchell, of Boston, Mass., is an author 

of some note and was selected to speak concerning single tax at a congress held 

in connection with the World's Fair.  Francis F.  Stowe remained on the home 

farm until twenty-one years of age, although for some three years before he had 

been teaching school.  On leaving home he went to Clayton County, Iowa, where 

he taught school and engaged in farming.  Two years later he went to Erie 

County, Pa., where for ten years he was engaged in the lumber business, 

meantime also taught several terms of school.  In April, 1869, he came to 

Lockport and opened a grocery, since which time he has continuously engaged in 

business here.  For a time he was president of the Lockport State Bank, now the 

Exchange Bank. He is a stockholder in the American Press Association.



Mr. Stowe married Miss Sophia F. Barnard, of Ellington, N. Y.  They have three 

children: Frederick W., a partner with his father in the grocery business; 

Grace E., who married George F. Seeley, of New York City; and Wayne B., who is 

one of the managers and directors of the American Press Association, of New 

York City.  Politically Mr. Stowe is a Republican.  For twenty-four years he 

served as justice of the peace.  While in Erie County, Pa., he was for three 

years a member of the county board of auditors.  Fraternally he is connected 

with Lockport Lodge No. 538, A. F. & A. M., and the Independent Order of Mutual 

Aid.

Additional comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900


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