De Witt Clinton Rowland

Birth Date

1829-07-13

Death Date

1894-07-21

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, railroad superintendent. Hartford, Connecticut, native. Married to Eliza Page Rowland. Father of Cliff W. Rowland and John B. A. Rowland. Worked as conductor and master of transportation on the Mobile & Ohio Railroad and the Tennessee & Alabama Railroad. Appointed assistant superintendent of Military Railroads, Department of the Cumberland. Served as general superintendent of the army freight line in Louisville and assistant superintendent of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferswon County, Louisville, 8th Ward, p. 50.
“D. W. C. Rowland Dead,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), July 22, 1894, p. 8.
E. H. Talbott and H. R. Hobart, eds., The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America (Chicago and New York: The Railway Age Publishing Company, 1885), 210-211.

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