History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., 
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p. 
608.

JAMES D. BOWLDS, two miles southeast of Knottsville, farmer and 
stock-raiser, owning 150 acres of valuable land, was born in Knottsville 
Precinct, March 27, 1842, and is a son of Thomas Bowlds (deceased), also 
a native of this precinct.  Mr. Bowlds' grandfather, James Bowlds, was 
an early settler of Daviess County.  Our subject has always been on a 
farm, and received his education in the common schools.  He married Miss 
Sarah Hagan in 1861, the daughter of Benjamin J. Hagan, of this 
precinct.  They have had ten children, seven of whom are 
living--Benjamin, Ida, Edward, Jessie, Guy, Lorena and Minnie.  Mr. 
Bowlds is a member of the Catholic Total Abstinence Society, and at one 
time was banner carrier in that society.  He has held the offices of 
School Trustee and Road Overseer.

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