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Abel Bowen
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Abel Bowen (1790-1850) was an engraver, publisher, and author in early 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts.
Biography
Bowen was born in New York in 1790.[1] Arriving in Boston in 1812, he worked as a printer for the Columbian 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]
With W.S. Pendleton he formed the firm of Pendleton & Bowen, which ended in 1826.[5] He joined the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association in 1828.[6] In the 1830s Bowen and others formed the Boston Bewick Company, which published the American 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 included William Hoogland.[12] His siblings included publisher Henry Bowen.
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Works by Bowen
- Bowen, Abel (1816). The Naval Monument.
- Rufus Porter (c. 1822). Revolving Almanack. Billerica, Mass. Engraved by Abel Bowen.
- Bowen's Boston News-letter, and City Record. 1826.
- Early Impressions A novella published 1827, Bowles and Dearborn: Boston, and reprinted by Allen and Ticknor, Boston, 1833.
- Bowen's Picture of Boston, Boston: Abel Bowen, 1829, OCLC 76917747, OL 7113723M
- Young Ladies' Book. 1830.
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Images
Office at Congress-Square; advertisement in Boston Directory, 1823
Engraving by Bowen of the Exchange Coffee House from Snow's History of Boston, 1828
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