BOWEN, GEORGE W. – Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons By E. Cleave

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