Justin De Witt Bowersock

Justin De Witt Bowersock (September 19, 1842 – October 27, 1922) was a U.S. representative from Kansas.

Early life Justin De Witt Bowersick was born on September 19, 1842, near Columbiana, Ohio, Bowersock moved to Iowa City, Iowa, in 1860 and engaged in mercantile pursuits and grain shipping. He moved to Lawrence, Kansas, where he engaged in business as a grain merchant. In 1877, he moved to Lawrence, Kansas, where he saw water power possibilities. He built a dam across the Kansas River and established several manufacturing plants with the power thus developed. He was later made president of the Kansas Water Power Company, organized the Douglas County Bank (later the Lawrence National) in 1878, and was elected president in 1888. He was also president of the Bowersock Mills & Power Company, the Kansas Water Power Company, the Griffin Ice Company, the Lawrence Iron Works, the Lawrence Paper Manufacturing Company, and the Kansas & Colorado Railroad Company.

Government Bowersock was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1907). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1906. He was interested in banking and manufactures in Lawrence, Kansas, until his death there on October 27, 1922. He was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence.