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Bowen Collegiate Institute at Hopkinton Iowa Story
In 1855 local leaders including Carter Cunningham and Dr W L Roberts planned Bowen Collegiate Institute.fund raising by Chauncey Bowen led to the school being named for him and chartered in 1858 with 64 students. Dr Mary Edwards Walker studied there in 1860 61 before suspension over bloomers.
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Henry Carter
Iowa
Hopkinton
Delaware County
Carter
Massachusetts
Harvard University
Jennie
Monticello Seminary
Illinois
W.P. Cunningham
Leroy Jackson
W.L. Roberts
Chicago
Chauncey Bowen
James Kilpatrick
Bowen Collegiate Institute
Covenanter Church
Bowen
Jerome Allen
Mary Edwards Walker
Oswego
N.Y
Harvard Medical School
Walker