Alexander Hamilton Bowman

Alexander Hamilton Bowman (May 15, 1803 – November 11, 1865) was an engineer, military educator, and career officer in the United States Army. Bowman supervised the erection of Charleston Harbor defenses, including Fort Sumter, and served as Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, during the American Civil War. One of seven brothers who participated in the American Revolutionary War as soldiers in the Continental Army, the elder Bowman and a brother fought at Lexington as two of the village's 48 minutemen and as ensign of the 3rd Massachusetts Regiment of the Continental Line guarded the spy Major John André awaiting his execution in 1780, walking him to the gallows. One of his brothers was killed at Monmouth, but after 1786 Captain Samuel and several of his siblings moved to the Wyoming Valley of northeast Pennsylvania. daughter of Antoine Collins and Mary Pyburn in Pensacola, Florida, on February 19, 1835.

The couple had the following children: Charles Stuart Bowman, born about 1837 and died in 1868. Mary Ellen Bowman, born 1843. Walter Bowman, born 1845 and died 1860–1865. Eulalie Bowman, born 1846. She married James Hickman Rollins, a captain of the U.S. Army who died February 5, 1897, in St. Louis Missouri. Louisa Bowman, born 1847 and died 1934 in Santa Barbara, California. She married Elwell Stephen Otis, who was the second American Military Governor of the Philippines. Eliza Chase Bowman, born Sept 9, 1851. She married Henry Corbit Odgen, a prominent Quaker who contributed his father's correspondence to the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Alexander H. Bowman Jr., born 1852 died 1870–1880 in Pennsylvania.

Charles Stuart Bowman was himself a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy in 1860. The younger Bowman mustered Kansas volunteer and Native American companies for the Union Army, commanded Fort Leavenworth for a time, and developed a reputation as an efficient cavalry officer, eventually becoming an inspector of cavalry for the War Department. Brevetted major for his actions commanding an independent detachment of the 4th United States Cavalry at the Battle of Okolona during the Meridian expedition, Charles S. Bowman died on January 13, 1868, while in Texas commanding the cavalry detachment at Camp Verde, Texas.

Bowman's brother, Samuel Bowman, was a bishop in the Episcopal Church.