Background
Bowen, Reuben Dean was born on December 18, 1859 in Montgomery Company, Texas, United States. Son of William Abraham and Clementine Dalmatia (Richards) Bowen.
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Reuben Dean Bowen
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Educated Saint Mary's College, Galveston, Texas. Agricultural and Mechanics College of Texas, 1877-1878.
Career
Captain Sam J. Wright, of Paris, Texas, May 15, 1890. Bookkeeper, Galveston and New Orleans. Traveling salesman for G. R. Finlay, wholesale druggist, New Orleans, 1879-1884.
Became connected with East. J. Hart & Company, New Orleans, 1884, advancing to partnership and general manager, closed out wholesale business, returned to Texas, 1895.
Active in promoting investments in Southwest and owner and manager of large farming interests in Texas. President Kiomatia Planters’ Company, Red River Company, Texas Originator of movement to popularize use of cotton in the United States and for many manufacturing purposes.
Chairman of committee of Farmers’ Union on Greater Consumption of Cotton. Largely instrumental in securing competition from other states in bidding for cotton-seed in Texas.
Also in application of business methods to the farm.
Engaged largely in stock raising. Appointed by governor of Texas as Chairman of Commission to receive delegation from Chicago on its visit to Texas, 1902, out of which originated Mississippi Valley Association, of which he was an organizer, and elected as director representing agriculture. Delegate from Texas in organization American Farm Bureau Federation in Chicago, 1919.
One of organizers Farmers-Manufacturers Association Movement launched 1924.
Member permanent Executive Committee National Flood Control of Mississippi River, member Farmers Union, Texas Farm Bureau, Texas History Society, Southern Sociological Association, Improved Order of Red Men. Home: Paris, Texas.
Achievements
Membership
Member permanent Executive Committee National Flood Control of Mississippi River.
Connections
Married Bonnybel, daughter
