BOWEN, GEORGE W. – Biographies – History of Homeopathy

OWEN, GEORGE W., M. D., of Fort Wayne, Ind., was born in Delaware county, N. Y., September 11th, 1830. His parents were
of the best type of our American rural population -sturdy, independent, and hard working people, but possessed of little capital further than robust
health and a character for staunch honesty and integrity. The subject of this sketch, though deprived by circumstances of many early advantages and
opportunities for acquiring an education, possessed what has stood many of our greatest men in good stead in their earlier years, the determination to
overcome these obstacles, and he therefore, by industriously studying between times, chiefly at night, succeeded in obtaining sufficient knowledge to
fit him ultimately for entering upon his professional studies.

     In 1849, when nineteen years of age, he placed himself under the tuition of Dr. D. S. Smith, of
Chicago, and after attending a course of lectures at the Cleveland Medical College, in the season of 1851-’52, removing to Fort Wayne, Ind., in 1852, he
commenced the practice of his profession, and by constant attention to his duties and successful treatment of disease, he built up an extensive practice
and honorable reputation. In 1859, the degree of M. D. was conferred upon him by the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago. Dr. Bowen’s aim has been that
which should animate every physician who feels a proper pride in his profession, namely, to advance the usefulness and dignity of his calling, rather
than to regard it as a mere trade, to be driven with an eye exclusively to its pecuniary gains. He has practiced according to the pure homœopathic
system, and while being rewarded for his efforts by a most gratifying success, he has had the satisfaction of seeing the standing of homœopathy in his
section measurably advanced as the result of his labors.

     Dr. Bowen was married in 1860, and enjoys, in the intervals of professional labor, the pleasures of
domestic life and the gratification of a cultured literary taste. He has a decided poetical sense, and possesses no small talent in that direction, as
numerous contributions to the literature of the day will testify. He has written several poems of merit for the journals of his city, one of
which-“Woman’s Mission,” published in the

Fort Wayne Republican -has been much admired. Dr. Bowen has held aloof from active participation in political strife, as becomes a
man engaged in his peaceful profession, but is a firm adherent to the principles of the Republican party.

Source : Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons By
Egbert Cleave

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BOWEN, GEORGE W.

, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, born Meredith, Delaware county, N.
Y., September 11, 1826 ; medical student in Cleveland, 1851-1852 ; graduated M. D. from Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, 1863 ;
practiced in Ft. Wayne since May 3, 1852 ; author of “Insanity and Malaria ;” senior of the American Institute of Homœopathy ;
ex-president of the Indiana State Homœopathic Medical Society, and ex-president of the county medical society.

Source : History of Homœopathy by William Harvey King