Bowman, Shadrach Laycock

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Class of 1855; Faculty, 1865-1871
    Full name
    Shadrach Laycock Bowman
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Siblings
    10
    Family
    Jesse Bowman (father), Anna Brown Bowman (mother)
    Education
    Dickinson (Carlisle College)
    Other
    Other Education
    Rutgers College; DePauw University
    Occupation
    Clergy
    Educator
    Church or Religious Denomination
    Methodist

    Shadrach Laycock Bowman (Dickinson Chronicles)

    Scholarship
    Shadrach Bowman was born on May 2,1829 in Berwick, Pennsylvania.  He attended the Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport, Pennsylvania before entering Dickinson College in 1853.  He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Union Philosophical Society.  Bowman graduated with the class of 1855, and received his master’s degree from the College in 1864.

    From 1855 to1857 Bowman was a member of the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church; in 1857, he transferred to the Newark Conference.  He then served as pastor in several churches in Pennsylvania until he accepted a position at Dickinson College in 1866.  As professor of Biblical languages and literature, Bowman gave instruction in Greek and Hebrew.  He completed his doctorate in theology from Rutgers College and another in systematic theology from DePauw University in 1870. Bowman left Dickinson in 1871, having failed to institute a new program of Biblical studies at the college.

    Bowman returned to preaching, serving congregations in Lock Haven, Bedford, York, and Morristown, New Jersey.  From 1877 until 1882, he served on the Board of Trustees of Dickinson College. In 1882, Bowman accepted the position of dean and professor of systematic theology at DePauw University.  After seven years there, he served as pastor for three years at Katonah, New York.  He returned to teaching at Drew Theological Seminary in 1903.

    He married Mary Elizabeth Aber of Lynn, Massachusetts on November 25, 1856.  Shadrach Laycock Bowman died in 1906.
    John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “Shadrach Laycock Bowman,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/b/ed_bowmanSL.html.
    How to Cite This Page: "Bowman, Shadrach Laycock," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/5157.