Published by admin on Mon, 05/26/2025 - 10:18am
Before there was a Will County, there were pioneers here, purchasing land, dividing the land, selling the land, using the land as collateral for buying more land, and in general trying to get rich in the land speculation business. It is not clear that Albert Bowen started out as a speculator, but it is clear that he ended up as one.
Albert Bowen was born in 1803 in Massachusetts, but his family moved to Herkimer, N. Y. when he was very young. At the age of 24 he graduated from Western College of Physicians and Surgeons at Fairfield, N. Y.