Jonathan Harvey Rowell (February 10, 1833 – May 15, 1908) was a

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from

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Biography

Born in

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, Rowell attended Rock Creek School and later graduated from

Eureka College Eureka College is a private liberal arts college in Eureka, Illinois, that is related by covenant to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Enrollment in 2018 was approximately 567 students. Eureka College was the third college in the Unite ...

, Illinois. During the

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he served as a company officer in the Seventeenth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry. In 1867 his son

Chester Harvey Rowell Chester Harvey Rowell (November 1, 1867 - April 12, 1948) was an early leader of the Progressive Party (United States, 1912), progressive movement in California. Born in Bloomington, Illinois, he earned a degree from the University of Michigan in ...

was born. Chester would later become active in politics in California. He studied law. He was

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in 1866 and commenced practice in

Bloomington, Illinois Bloomington is a city and the county seat of McLean County, Illinois, United States. It is adjacent to the town of Normal, and is the more populous of the two principal municipalities of the Bloomington–Normal metropolitan area. Bloomington ...

. He was the state's attorney of the eighth judicial circuit of Illinois 1868-1872. Rowell was elected as a

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to the

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and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1891). He served as chairman of the Committee on Elections ( Fifty-first Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress after which he resumed the practice of law. He died in Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, May 16, 1908, and was interred in

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