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Levi L. Rowland : ウィキペディア英語版 | Levi L. Rowland
Levi Lindsey Rowland (September 17, 1831 – January 19, 1908) was an American educator and physician in the state of Oregon. A native of Tennessee, he served as the Oregon Superintendent of Public Instruction, president of what became Western Oregon University, and as the Superintendent of Oregon’s insane asylum, now the Oregon State Hospital. The Republican was also a pastor and farmer. ==Early years== Levi Rowland was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on September 17, 1831, the son of Jeremiah and Lucy (''neé'' Butler) Rowland.〔Corning, Howard M. (1989) ''Dictionary of Oregon History''. Binfords & Mort Publishing. p. 212.〕 In 1844, he came over the Oregon Trail with his parents and settled in the Yamhill District in the Oregon Country. After farming for a few years he left what was then the Oregon Territory in 1849 and headed south to the gold mines of California during the California Gold Rush.〔 Rowland returned to Oregon in 1851 after accumulating some wealth, but then returned east to Virginia to attend college.〔 In 1856, he graduated from Bethany College in Virginia (now West Virginia) and was ordained as a minister of the Disciples of Christ.
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