Elijah Bowen Jr.
Elijah Bowen Jr.



(Page 556) Elijah Bowen Jr., son of the above named Elijah Bowen and Deborah Swinney, was born June 21, 1743. He settled as a physician near Roadstown, where it is said he had an extensive practice. His medicines were principally, if not wholly, derived from the vegetable kingdom. Upon visiting a patient, it is recorded that he would sometimes go into the fields, woods, or swamps and search for such remedies, in the form of leaves, seeds, roots, or bark of herbs or trees, as he supposed were calculated to meet the requirements of the case. He resided in the brick house in Stow Creek Township lately owned by Edgar Sheppard, where he died in September 1783.

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