Bowen, George Dixon, Md

Bowen, George Dixon, M.D., a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Indiana 1823, converted at fourteen, entered the itinerant ministry in the Philadelphia Conference 1844, and emigrated to Davenport, Iowa, 1857, at which appointment he died in May, 1858. 'i He was an able minister of the New Testament, and a skilful defender of the doctrines of the Church." His labors were a "succession of triumphs." -Minutes of Conferences for 1858, p. 235.