Norwood Bowne
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Norwood Bowne was an American newspaper editor and politician from New York
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's trade. In 1830, he removed to Delhi, NY, to study law with Charles Hathaway, who had married Bowne's sister Maria Augusta in 1828, but worked for the Delaware Republican instead. This paper was not successful, and Bowne returned to New York City where he published the Protestant Vindicator. In 1834, the printing and publishing house was destroyed by fire. In 1839, he returned to Delhi, NY, and from January 1839 until his death, he published the Delaware Express.
He was Postmaster of Delhi, NY, from 1849 to 1852.
In 1854, he was elected an Inspector of State Prisons
, being in office from 1855 to 1857.
In 1876, he ran for presidential elector on the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes
ticket, but New York was won by Samuel J. Tilden
.
New York
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Life
In early youth he learned the printerPrinter (publisher)
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's trade. In 1830, he removed to Delhi, NY, to study law with Charles Hathaway, who had married Bowne's sister Maria Augusta in 1828, but worked for the Delaware Republican instead. This paper was not successful, and Bowne returned to New York City where he published the Protestant Vindicator. In 1834, the printing and publishing house was destroyed by fire. In 1839, he returned to Delhi, NY, and from January 1839 until his death, he published the Delaware Express.
He was Postmaster of Delhi, NY, from 1849 to 1852.
In 1854, he was elected an Inspector of State Prisons
New York State Prison Inspector
The Inspector of State Prisons was a statewide elective office created by the New York State Constitution of 1846. At the New York state election, 1847, three Inspectors were elected and then, upon taking office, so classified that henceforth every year one Inspector would be elected to a...
, being in office from 1855 to 1857.
In 1876, he ran for presidential elector on the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th President of the United States . As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction and the United States' entry into the Second Industrial Revolution...
ticket, but New York was won by Samuel J. Tilden
Samuel J. Tilden
Samuel Jones Tilden was the Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency in the disputed election of 1876, one of the most controversial American elections of the 19th century. He was the 25th Governor of New York...
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Sources
- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 45 and 370; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; pages 411 and 507)
- THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS in NYT on November 4, 1876
- http://www.dcnyhistory.org/books/murraysectionXV.html History of Delaware County