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An eminent physician and surgeon now located at Cross River, Westchester county. New York, is Dr. Stowe, who was born in New Haven, Connecticut, August 10, 1842, a son of Henry and Sarah (Lees) Stowe, and was reared in his native place, preparing for college at General Russell's Collegiate and Commercial Institute. He laid aside his text-books, however, in September, 1861. and joined the boys in blue in the defense of his country during the civil war. He enlisted in Company G, Sixth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, but in 1863 resigned his commission as lieutenant and until the close of the war served in various departments, being in the pay department when the war closed in 1865. While with his regiment he served in the south, and was in various engagements along the southern coast.

After the war Dr. Stowe studied law for a time, and then engaged in teaching in General Russell's Military School at New Haven, where he remained from 1869 until 1888, conducting the school on his own account for the last three years. For ten years he was also a member of the state military board of Connecticut. While engaged in teaching he prepared to enter the medical profession, and in 1888 was granted the degree of M. D. by the medical department of Yale College. For two years he engaged in practice at New Haven, and spent three years in Pennsylvania, but in 1894 came to his present location at Cross River, New York, where he has succeeded in building up a large general practice. His thorough knowledge of medicine and his. skill in surgery have won for him the confidence of the people to such an extent that, though comparatively a new-comer, his success is already an assured fact. He holds membership in the American Medical Association, the State Medical Society of Connecticut, and the Westchester County Medical Society. He is also connected with the Grand Army of the Republic,, and is a worthy member of the Presbyterian church.

In 1869 Dr. Stowe wedded Miss Ellen F. Read, who died May 29, 1892, leaving four children, namely: Sarah R., now the wife of Frank E. Weaver, of Torrington, Connecticut, who is connected with the Eagle bicycle works at Torrington; Eric L., also with the bicycle company; and William D. and Dorothea O., at home.