A conspicuous figure in the Twenty-sixth General Assembly was the member from Allamakee county, Dr. D. H. Bowen, of Waukon. Dr. Bowen was born in Green county, Wis., in 1850. He was reared on a farm, attended the public schools, and afterwards took an academic course, after which he taught school for some time. He began the study of medicine at Brodhead, Wis., when he was 22 years old, and finished at the Rush Medical college, Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1876. Soon after graduation he removed to Rossville, Iowa, where he resided till 1880, when he begun practicing in Waukon, which town has been his home since. In his seventeen years' practice in Allamakee county, Dr. Bowen has been most successful, and not only professionally, but politically and socially. Soon after his graduation he was married to Miss Hettie E. Burns. They have two children, a son, 18, and a daughter, 12. Dr. Bowen's political life has been lived in the republican party, serving as chairman of the county central committee for several years. He has also held the offices of pension examiner, coroner, president of school board and mayor. He was elected as representative in 1895, and in the regular and extra sessions of the Twenty-sixth General Assembly he did efficient service. He was chairman of the committee on public health, and served on the agriculture, claims, county and township organizations, hospitals for the insane, compensation of public officers, and pharmacy committees. Dr. Bowen was especially proud of the part he took in getting through several important new medical laws in the revision of the code. His return this year is an evidence of the esteem in which his friends and constituents hold him.

A conspicuous figure in the Twenty-sixth General Assembly was the member from Allamakee county, Dr. D. H. Bowen, of Waukon. Dr. Bowen was born in Green county, Wis., in 1850. He was reared on a farm, attended the public schools, and afterwards took an academic course, after which he taught school for some time. He began the study of medicine at Brodhead, Wis., when he was 22 years old, and finished at the Rush Medical college, Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1876. Soon after graduation he removed to Rossville, Iowa, where he resided till 1880, when he begun practicing in Waukon, which town has been his home since. In his seventeen years' practice in Allamakee county, Dr. Bowen has been most successful, and not only professionally, but politically and socially. Soon after his graduation he was married to Miss Hettie E. Burns. They have two children, a son, 18, and a daughter, 12. Dr. Bowen's political life has been lived in the republican party, serving as chairman of the county central committee for several years. He has also held the offices of pension examiner, coroner, president of school board and mayor. He was elected as representative in 1895, and in the regular and extra sessions of the Twenty-sixth General Assembly he did efficient service. He was chairman of the committee on public health, and served on the agriculture, claims, county and township organizations, hospitals for the insane, compensation of public officers, and pharmacy committees. Dr. Bowen was especially proud of the part he took in getting through several important new medical laws in the revision of the code. His return this year is an evidence of the esteem in which his friends and constituents hold him.

Born in Decatur, Wisconsin, September 6, 1850. He was reared on a farm and received a liberal education, teaching school for several years. At twenty-two years of age he began the study of medicine in Broadhead, Wisconsin, and soon after entered Rush Medical College from which he graduated in the class of 1876. He removed to Iowa, locating at Waukon in Allamakee County, where he has practiced medicine for more than twenty-five years. He was an active Republican and in 1895 was elected Representative in the House of the Twenty-sixth General Assembly, and has been twice reelected, serving in the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth General Assemblies. He was chosen speaker of the House of the latter session, having been selected by the supporters of Senator John H. Gear. For seven years Dr. Bowen was a surgeon of the Fourth Regiment of the Iowa National Guard and has held many official positions in his home city and county.