Norwood Bowne

Norwood Bowne (May 2, 1813 New York City - January 7, 1890 Delhi, Delaware County, New York) was an American newspaper editor and politician from New York.

Life

In early youth he learned the printer's trade. In 1830, he removed to Delhi, NY, to study law with Charles Hathaway, who had married Bowne's sister Maria Augusta in 1828, but worked for the Delaware Republican instead. This paper was not successful, and Bowne returned to New York City where he published the Protestant Vindicator. In 1834, the printing and publishing house was destroyed by fire. In 1839, he returned to Delhi, NY, and from January 1839 until his death, he published the Delaware Express.

He was Postmaster of Delhi, NY, from 1849 to 1852.

In 1854, he was elected an Inspector of State Prisons, being in office from 1855 to 1857.

In 1876, he ran for presidential elector on the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes ticket, but New York was won by Samuel J. Tilden.

Sources

• The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 45 and 370; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
• The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; pages 411 and 507)
• THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS in NYT on November 4, 1876
• [1] History of Delaware County