Biographical Sketch of B. F. Dow
B. F. Dow was born in Maine on January 13, 1845, and moved to Wisconsin in 1853. He enlisted in the Union army in 1864 and was discharged in 1866. Dow homesteaded in Jewell County, Kansas, in 1871 and began his merchandising career in Omio in 1879, constructing a stone store building in 1880. He married in Chilton, Wisconsin, on June 7, 1870.