Background
Bowen was born in New York in 1790.
Bowen was born in New York in 1790.
In 1814 Abel married Eliza Healey of Hudson, New New York Their children included Abel Bowen (d1818). With West.S. Pendleton he formed the firm of Pendleton & Bowen, which ended in He joined the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association in 1828.
In the 1830s Bowen and others formed the Boston Bewick Company, which published the American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge.
He lived and worked in Congress Square, ca.1823-1826. In 1832 he kept his shop on Water Street, and lived on Union Street.
In 1849 he worked on School Street, and lived in Chelsea. Bowen taught Joseph Andrews, Hammatt Billings, George Loring Brown, B.F. Childs, William Croome, Nathaniel Dearborn, G. Thomas Devereaux, Alonzo Hartwell, Samuel Smith Kilburn, and Richard P. Mallory.
Contemporaries included William Hoogland.