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__NOTOC__ Abel Bowen (1790-1850) was an engraver, publisher, and author in early 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. ==Biography== Bowen was born in New York in 1790.〔Walter Hamilton. Dated book-plates (Ex libris) with a treatise on their origin and development. 1895.〕 Arriving in Boston in 1812, he worked as a printer for the Columbian Museum, at the time under the proprietorship of his uncle, Daniel Bowen. In 1814 Abel married Eliza Healey of Hudson, New York. Their children included Abel Bowen (d.1818). With W.S. Pendleton he formed the firm of Pendleton & Bowen, which ended in 1826. He joined the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association in 1828.〔Annals of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. 1853.〕 In the 1830s Bowen and others formed the Boston Bewick Company, which published the ''American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge''. He lived and worked in Congress Square, ca.1823-1826; in 1832 he kept his shop on Water Street, and lived on Union Street; in 1849 he worked on School Street, and lived in Chelsea. Bowen taught Joseph Andrews, Hammatt Billings, George Loring Brown, B.F. Childs, William Croome, Nathaniel Dearborn, G. Thomas Devereaux, Alonzo Hartwell, Samuel Smith Kilburn, and Richard P. Mallory. Contemporaries included William Hoogland. His siblings included publisher Henry Bowen. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abel Bowen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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