Eugene Clark Rowell

  General Notes:

"As Bert once said, Gene had a tremendous capacity for learning, but his ability to learn was exercised only incidentally until he was well into adulthood. For several years he worked at many different trades and occupations, as opportunity offered: coal mining, ranching, gold mining, lumbering, as a stationary engineer, as a carpenter. Once when I was with him on the old narrow guage train going through the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, the news hawk tried to sell him a picture card of Curecanti Needle. Gene said he wasn't interested, he had seen it all day every day for too many days when he was helping to lay the track.
When he was 29 years of age, he decided that what he needed most was an education, so he entered the High School at Delta, Colorado, as a freshman. Six years later he was teaching Latin in college, and in between had completed a ministerial course and was qualified as a minister of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. His B. A. was from Union College, Lincoln, Nebraska, M. A. from the University of Nebraska. He was a professor of English.
When he retired, after 25 years, checking up his credits, he said he had 27 college years of English. The few years leave he took from teaching for ministerial work were spent in Bermuda. He brought to his work such dedication and competence his parishioners felt it should have been his life work.
He was a poet, with a philosopher's outlook, a sense of humor, and a feeling for tragedy. I have always thought of him as a big man, physically, mentally, spiritually, big of mind and of hearts." ----Albert Lee Rowell ¹

Eugene married Winifred M Peebles on 1 Jun 1908 in College View, NE.

Eugene next married Minnie Marie Olson, daughter of John Olson and Wilhelmina Anderson, on 9 Jun 1932 in Raton, NM. (Minnie Marie Olson was born on 16 Jul 1894 in Detroit Lakes, MN and died about 1980 in Worthington, OH.)