Introduction

Biography

Rowley was the son of doc­tor John Row­ley and Ma­ry Jane Smith, and hus­band of Ida Ame­lia Bab­cock (marr­ied June 11, 1878, Ro­ches­ter, New York).

He at­tend­ed the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ro­ches­ter and Ro­ches­ter Theo­lo­gic­al Se­mi­na­ry (now the Col­gate Ro­ches­ter Cro­zer Di­vi­ni­ty School) in New York.

He was or­dained a Bap­tist min­is­ter in 1878, and pas­tored for ov­er 30 years in sev­er­al lo­ca­tions:

• Titusville, Penn­syl­van­ia
• North Ad­ams, Mas­sa­chu­setts
• Oak Park, Il­li­nois
• Fall Ri­ver, Mas­sa­chu­setts
• First Bap­tist Church, Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts

Around 1908, he be­came pre­si­dent of the Mas­sa­chu­setts So­ci­ety for Pre­ven­tion of Cru­el­ty to Ani­mals, where he served un­til re­tire­ment in 1945.

Oglethorpe Uni­ver­si­ty in At­lan­ta, Georg­ia, named the Row­ley School of Hu­ma­ni­ties af­ter him.