Isaac Erb Bowman

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Isaac Erb Bowman (August 17, 1832 – September 3, 1897) was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Waterloo North in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal member from 1867 to 1878 and from 1887 to 1896.

He was born Isaac Erb Baumann in Woolwich Township in Upper Canada in 1832; his parents had come there from Pennsylvania in 1820. He attended school at the Rockwood Academy in Rockwood, Ontario. For a time, he taught school in the region. He served as clerk and treasurer for the township and was also postmaster for St. Jacobs. He served as president of the Ontario Mutual Life Insurance Company and the Mercantile Fire Insurance Company. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada in an 1864 by-election for the North riding of Waterloo and he was acclaimed in the same riding after Confederation.

His son Charles Martin later became a member of the Ontario provincial assembly.

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• Political Biography from the Library of Parliament
• The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1887, J Durie
• Little paradise : the saga of the German Canadians of Waterloo County, Ontario, 1800-1975,G Leibbrandt (1980)