Joseph Bowron

Joseph Bowron (August 1, 1809 – April 10, 1868) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly representing St. Croix and La Pointe counties during the first two sessions of the Wisconsin Legislature.

Biography Bowron was born in 1809 in Essex County, New York. His parents were English American immigrants, having previously resided at Newcastle upon Tyne. When he was five years old, his mother died and he was sent to live with his aunt. She raised him until age 19, when he went to work in Lower Canada.

He moved to Hudson, Wisconsin, in 1848, and married in 1849. His first wife was Celia Partridge, of Columbia County, Wisconsin, but she died just three years later. He then married Rosanna Partridge in 1854, she died in 1863.

Bowron died in 1868, leaving two children, who subsequently moved to Kansas.