This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: STOWELL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yg.2ADE/687.688.1.1 Message Board Post: Carroll County, Ill. Other that dates, I have little on J.M. Stowell. He was in Buffalo, NY in early 1854, from whence he traveled to California, returning east in 1856.