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De Witt Clinton Rowland (Railroad Superintendent, Louisville)

b. 1829-07-13 d. 1894-07-21

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.

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Race
White

Bibliography

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.

Citation

Rowland, De Witt Clinton. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205607 (November 12, 2026).

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