Settler of township lots: Lot 6, Conc. 1, Stanhope
Link to the Rowe family on the Settlers of Algonquin Highlands Family Tree website
Location: Map point is the approximate location within this 100 acre lot running east from Kushog Lake Road and Buckslide Road north of Hwy 118.
Land acquisition: 1867 Patent from The Crown. Ontario Land Parcel Register - Stanhope (Image 69).
Dates of residency:
Interesting facts:
1866 saw Stanhope established as a separate municipality with James Melville elected to the post of reeve and George J. Rowe as township clerk. Source: In Quest of Yesterday by Nila Reynolds. Published by The Provisional County of Haliburton, Minden, Ontario 1973 pg. 100 & 302.
1868 George Rowe moved to Chicago but rented the farm to Robert Stevens. Barnums were tenants until 1877 when Goodman bought the property.
J. George Rowe was married and had a son Ernest George in 1866, but his wife is unknown. He married for a second time in Chicago in 1874.
Preceding landowner: The Crown
Succeeding landowner: