Abel Bowen (1790-1850) was anengraver, publisher, and author in early 19th-centuryBoston,Massachusetts.
Bowen was born in New York in 1790.[1] Arriving in Boston in 1812, he worked as a printer for theColumbian Museum, at the time under the proprietorship of his uncle, Daniel Bowen.[2] In 1814 Abel married Eliza Healey of Hudson, New York.[3] Their children included Abel Bowen (d.1818).[4]
WithW.S. Pendleton he formed the firm of Pendleton & Bowen, which ended in 1826.[5] He joined theMassachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association in 1828.[6] In the 1830s Bowen and others formed the Boston Bewick Company, which published theAmerican Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge. He lived and worked in Congress Square, ca.1823-1826;[7] in 1832 he kept his shop on Water Street, and lived on Union Street;[8] in 1849 he worked on School Street, and lived in Chelsea.[9]
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.[10][11] Contemporaries includedWilliam Hoogland.[12] His siblings included publisher Henry Bowen.
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