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ver have been ministers of the Methodist church and for many years Rev. Thomas Bowman, A. M., D. D., LL. D., was senior bishop of that church. It is an interesting fact that from the original stock there have sprung three bishops in the church in three different Christian denominations and all holding their high position about the same time. Rev. Bishop Samuel Bowman, of the Protestant Episcopal church ; Rev. Bishop Thomas Bowman, of the Evangelical church, and Rev. Bishop Thomas Bowman, of the Methodist Episcopal church.

The Bowman's coat-of-arms, as taken from an ancient seal in England are : Arms. "Or a tree eradicated." Crest: ""Issuant from a wreath of his colors, a knight in armor proper habited per pale purpure and azure, bearing in his hand over the dexter shoulder a tree as in the arms." The shield is surmounted by the helmet of the degree of nobility and the lambrequin or mantle or and vert.

Dr. Jacob Carroll Bowman, of East Rad- ford. Virginia, is a son of Rev. John Wes- ley Bowman, a clergyman of the Alethodist Episcopal Church (South), born in North Carolina in 1839, died in 1905. He was a member of the Houston conference, an elo- quent preacher, a man of learning and deep piety. He married Sarah Prather, of Taze- well court house, the capital of Tazewell, a southwestern county of \'irginia.

Dr. Jacob Carroll Bowman was born in Jonesville, the capital of Lee county, a county forming the southwestern extremity of \'irginia and Tennessee. His father's sacred profession necessitated frequent change of residence and the future doctor's earl}- education was obtained in grammar and high schools of several Virginia coun- ties. Although obtained under these vary- ing conditions his preparation was thorough and in 1899 gained him admission to Weaver College, an excellent institution of learning located at \\'eaversville, North Carolina, whence he was graduated Bachelor of Science, class of 1902. He decided on the profession of medicine as his life work and in 1905 entered North Carolina Medical Col- lege at Charlotte. With some interruption, made necessary by circumstances, he pur- sued the full medical course and was gradu- ated Doctor oi Medicine, class of 1910. He began practice in Berkeley, West Virginia, the same year, continuing there until 1912,

when he returned to Virginia, locating in East Radford, Montgomery county, a town on the Norfolk & Western railroad, near the independent city of Radford. Here he has established a satisfactory practice, which is constantly increasing. He is a member of the Montgomery County Medical Society, is a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in political faith is a Democrat. Dr. Bowman has given a great deal of time to the military service of his state and nation, serving during the Spanish-Amer- ican war as a private of the Third Regiment Infantry, United States army, and in state service as a member of Company M, Second Regiment \'irginia National Guards of Rad- ford, an organization of which he was com- missioned captain by Governor Stuart, Feb- ruary 21, 1914, after being duly elected to that office by his comrades.

Dr. Bowman married, September, 1912, Alma Yates, born in Raleigh, North Caro- lina, daughter of William and Anne (Hor- ton) Yates, of Briscoe, North Carolina.

Arthur C. Harman. The origin of the Augusta county, \'irginia, family of Har- mans has not been ascertained. In the lat- ter part of the seventeenth century Adam Harman left Wales and settled in Chester county, Pennsylvania, where he brought up a family of several children. . Descendants of Adam Haiman lived at Warm Springs, Bath county, and at Staunton, Augusta county, Virginia, which are adjoining coun- ties, and it is presumed that Lewis Har- man, the grandfather of Arthur C. Harman, was of that family. However, there was another family of Harmans whose ancestor settled in Anne Arundel county, Marj-land, in 1752, that may have been the progenitor of the Waynesboro, Virginia, family. The ancestor of the Anne Arundel county, Mary- land, family was Andrew Harman, who in 1752 came from Saxony, Germany; he mar- ried Eva Martin, of Yorkshire, England. They had a son, Andrew Harman, who mar- ried Elizabeth Fairbank ; and they had a son. Henry ]\Iartyn Harman. born March 22, 1822. and graduated in 1848 at Dickin- son College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, who was a famous educator, and taught in Balti- more, Maryland, schools for many years.

Lewis "Pat" Harman, of \\'aynesboro, Augusta county, Virginia, probably had sev- eral children, as William H. Harman, T. L.