JESSE BOWEN
Jesse Bowen was born in Virginia, six miles from Harper's Ferry, December 18, 1805. When eight years old, he came with his father, Jonathan Bowen, to Ross County, Ohio. They had scarcely arrived when his father's team was impressed by the military to haul corn to Franklinton, Franklin County. About, 1822, they came to Union County and settled on Mill Creek about three miles below Marysville. Jesse there married Susanna Spurgeon and in April 1835, he removed to a farm of 150 acres, one and a half miles northeast of Essex, which he had purchased at Chillicothe from Allen G. Latham. At this time the eastern portion of Jackson Township was devoid of any settlements. Mr. Bowen is still a resident of the locality he first occupied forty-seven years ago.