Rowe Family

The first Rowe to settle in Highland Township, Michigan, was Squire Washington Rowe. Rowe was born June 1, 1815 in Camillus, Onondaga County, New York, later moving with his family to Parma, Monroe County, New York. Rowe and Dolly Castle were married on March 26, 1835, and the young couple soon emigrated with other family members to Michigan, arriving in May, 1835, where they built up a large farm in Highland Township and raised their family.

In 1855 Squire Rowe built an imposing stone house known today as Stone-Rowe, registered in 1976 as a Michigan Historic Site. Rowe was a Republican and served 21 terms as supervisor of Highland Township. In the Civil War, he was a recruiting officer for the 10th Regiment, Company K, and he was appointed Captain of the 14th Infantry, with the duty to raise a regiment. However, he seems not to have succeeded in this since that group does not appear on regimental rosters. He also headed relief work in aid of soldiers' widows and orphans. In 1864 Rowe was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives, which office he still held at the time of his death on November 19, 1866. His widow, Dolly, died in 1909. Squire and Dolly Castle Rowe were the parents of eight children:

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