Alonzo A. Rowley Dies
After Short Illness
Member of Department of Potomac, G.A.R., and Connected With
Census Office for Years.
Alonzo A. Rowley, prominent in the work of the
Department of the Potomac, G.A.R., and connected with the census office
for some years, died yesterday morning at 9:30 o'clock at his residence,
1344 Kenyon street northwest, after a short illness. He was
sixty-eight years old. As a special agent of the census office he
did much work in large manufacturing districts of the country.
Funeral services will be held at the family residence
tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Commander H. B. Snyder of
Burnside Post, No. 8, G.A.R., of which the deceased was a member will be
in charge. Interment will be in Arlington cemetery.
Mr. Rowley was born in Chicago January 17, 1848.
He attended public schools in that city until his father moved to a farm
near Chicago. When the civil war broke out he endeavored to
enlist, but his application was rejected on the ground that he was too
young. He afterward succeeded in enlisting, December 22, 1863,
at Nunda, Ill., as a private in Company G, 17th Illinois Cavalry; served
during the remainder of the war and was not discharged until January 25,
1866, at Springfield, Ill. On returning home after his discharge,
he entered the Illinois Soldiers College, at Fulton, Ill., where he
graduated in 1871, and immediately entered Ann Arbor (Mich.) University,
where he graduated in law in 1873.
Began Practice of Law
After leaving college he entered the law firm of
Lawrence, Campbell & Lawrence, at Chicago, and practiced law for
eight years.
In 1881 he was appointed attorney for the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad and represented the railroad interests
in that state. In 1886 he removed to Beloit, Kan., and practiced
law in that city for three years. In 1889, he removed to Topeka,
Kan., where he accepted an editorial position with the Topeka State
Capital. Shortly afterward he left that newspaper to accept
the position of city editor on the Mail and Breeze, published by Arthur
Capper, now Governor of Kansas. In 1900 he came to Washington, to
accept an appointment in the census office, where he remained until the
time of his death.
Member of Singing Club
While at Topeka, he was a member of the Modoc Singing
Club, an organization which achieved distinction at both state and
national Grand Army of the Republic encampments, in the participation of
their musical programs.
His wife, Mrs. Alice M. Rowley, and two children, Mrs.
Bertha M. Morgan and Clifford A. Rowley, who reside in this city are
living. He also has three brothers living-- Millard M. Rowley of
Seattle, Wash., Milton M. Rowley of Kansas City, Mo., and George W.
Rowley of Iowa. |