NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11311 NELSON CO – WILLIAM H. ROWAN – Rowan, Carnes, Polk, Reid, Boone, Pennebaker, Logan, Muir, Hodgen, Grigsby, Cartnell, Hardin 11311 Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume v – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 4th ed., 1885. Nelson Co. WILLIAM H. ROWAN, county court clerk and son of John and Rebecca (Carnes) Rowan, was born in Nelson County September 17, 1837. His grandfather, Hon. John Rowan, was one of Kentucky’s most distinguished lawyers. Mr. Rowan’s maternal ancestors were among the early residents of Maryland, his grandfather, Peter Carnes, having been for a number of years a successful business man of Baltimore. He was also a major in the United States Army; served as Indian agent in an early day, and died in his native State about the year 1848 or 1849. John Rowan, Jr., subject’s father, was born in Nelson County, Ky., in 1807; was a lawyer by profession and a man of considerable prominence in the State. He was the United States minister to Naples during Polk’s administration and died in Nelson County in August, 1855. His wife, Rebecca (Carnes) Rowan, was born in St. Mary’s County, Md., and is still living near Bardstown. John and Rebecca Rowan reared a family of ten children, of whom the following are living: Mrs. Josephine Reid, William H., Rowan, Maud A., Julia and Madge Rowan. The deceased members of the family are John, Rebecca, Lytle, Henry and Mary. William H. Rowan as reared near Bardstown and passed his youth upon a farm, attending the schools of the town in the meantime. He was with his father during the latter’s residence in Italy, and while in Naples attended school in that city, where he made substantial progress in his various studies. He returned to Kentucky in 1850, and the year following attended the Mt. St. Mary’s College, Maryland, where he prosecuted his studies until about the year 1852. After his father’s death he began the study of law with Wm. P. Boone and Charles D. Pennebaker, of Louisville, with whom he remained for a period of eighteen months, and in 1859 was admitted to the bar, receiving his license from Judges Caleb Logan and Peter B. Muir. He did not engage in his practice, however, but instead secured the position of deputy circuit clerk of Jefferson County, in which capacity he continued until the breaking out of the civil war, when he entered the Confederate service, enlisting in Company D, First Kentucky Regiment, in which he held a lieutenant’s commission and served as lieutenant until the first battle of Manasses, when, for gallant conduct, he was promoted to the captaincy of his company, a position he held until after the battle of Williamsburg, when the first regiment was disbanded. He was made captain of the regulars in 1862, and held commission until some time the following year, when he was assigned to the command of the Third Kentucky Battalion, Hodgen’s brigade, in which capacity he continued until his capture at Farmington, Tenn., in October, 1863; was held a prisoner at the latter date until July, 1865, spending the interim at Johnson’s Island, Old Capitol prison at Washington and Ft. Delaware, from the last of which he was paroled at the time mentioned above. During his period of service as a soldier Maj. Rowan participated in a number of bloody engagements, among which were Manasses, Dranesville, seven days’ battles in front of Richmond, Chickamauga, and many others, through all of which he escaped unhurt. At the close of the war he returned to Bardstown and effected a coparternership in the law with William R. Grigsby, Esq., with whom he practiced his profession about one year. At the end of that time he disposed of his legal business and made an extensive tour of the Western States and Territories, remaining in the same for a period of ten years, following various vocations in the meantime. He returned to Bardstown in 1876, since which time he has been a resident of the city; was elected county court clerk in August, 1878; re-elected in 1882, and at the present time (1886) is candidate for re-election to the same office without opposition. Mr. Rowan is an active politician, and votes with the Democratic party, with which he has been identified since his twenty-first year. He married, September 20, 1877, in Nelson County, Miss Nannie T. Hardin, daughter of Rowan and Eliza (Cartnell) Hardin, of Fleming County, Ky. Two children have been born to this marriage, viz.: Ben Hardin Rowan and Rebecca B. Rowan (deceased). Mrs. Rowan is a member of the Bardstown Baptist Church. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx