George Fox Bowles (1795-1874) was a Friend born in North Carolina, who lived in Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa. The collection consists of a genealogy of the Bowles family and of George F. Bowles's wife's family, the Baileys, and of a reminiscence of the Bowles family's settlement near Richmond, Ind. in 1807. This copy was made ca. 1913 by Luella White Rockwell. It also includes sketches of th Beard and Cox families, early Quaker settlers in Wayne County.