Rowan, William W. (Roman)

Born: 1805-XX-XX Kentucky

Died: 1861-09-XX

Flourished: 1839 Saint Clair County, Illinois

Alternate name: Roman

Rowan was a physician who opened a practice in Belleville, Illinois. In 1838, St. Clair County voters elected him as a Democrat to the Illinois House of Representatives. He failed in his bid for re-election in 1840. In 1847, he represented St. Clair County as a Democrat at the Illinois Constitutional Convention. He was elected as county clerk in 1857, but passed away while serving out his four-year term.

U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), St. Clair County, IL, 389; History of St. Clair County, Illinois (Philadelphia: Brink, McDonough, 1881), 78; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Belleville, St. Clair County, IL, 425; John Clayton, comp., The Illinois Fact Book and Historical Almanac, 1673-1968 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1970), 208; Theodore C. Pease, ed., Illinois Election Returns, 1818-1848, vol. 18 of Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1923), 317, 340, 460.