Husband Hon. Edwin H. Stowe 1 2 3
Born: 2 Jan 1826 - Beaver, Beaver Co, PA 2 3
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Father: Hiram Stowe ( -1877) 1 2
Mother: Martha A. Darragh (Abt 1805-Aft 1888) 3 4
Marriage: 1864 5
• Biographical Sketch: from Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Biography of Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 (New York: Atlantic Publishing & Engraving Co., 1889), Pg 119.
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Wife Emma Vick 5
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Father: Charles Vick, Esq. ( - ) 5
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1 M Charles H. Stowe 5
Born: Abt 1866
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Died: 1881 5
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Spouse: Did Not Marry
2 M Edwin Walford Stowe 5
Born: 1870 5
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3 M Percy Van Deusen Stowe 5
Born: 1874 5
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General Notes: Husband - Hon. Edwin H. Stowe
Pittsburgh, PA
He was carefully nurtured, and enjoyed every advantage of education at command. For a time he was a pupil of the academy at Beaver, but becoming dissatisfied, withdrew from it and recited to Samuel B. Coulter, a graduate of Jefferson College, and an accomplished scholar. In 1843 he entered Washington College, from which he was graduated in 1845. Removing to Pittsburgh in the fall of 1846 he entered the office of the late Judge Hampton, then a member of Congress from Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, as a student of law. He was admitted to the bar in 1849, and soon after opened an office as an attorney at law. Of a retiring dis-position he formed few acquaintances outside the profession, but upon the students and members of the bar he made a favorable impression. His progress was at first slow and discouraging; indeed, so much so, that, at times, he bitterly regretted his choice of a profession. But there was no retreat without disgrace, and he resolved by patience and assiduous study to prepare for better days. In 1855 he entered into partnership with John H. Hampton, Esq., a former schoolmate and the son of his preceptor. Soon business came with unstinted measure to the new firm, and the success of Stowe & Hampton was assured. In 1859 Judge Stowe's name was first mentioned for a judicial position among the members of the bar, and in 1862 he was nominated by the Republican party and elected judge of the Common Pleas Court of Allegheny County. It required but a brief time to gain the confidence of the public as a judge both "competent and honest." [HBC 1888, 724]