Josiah S. Bowen

Josiah S. Bowen, is a native of Mt. Washington, born April 28, 1882, son of the late Dr. Josiah Slicer Bowen and Rebecca Norma Mears, his wife. The younger Dr. Bowen was a physician and surgeon in active practice at Mt. Washington, Baltimore county, Maryland, grand regent of Kappa Psi Medical and Pharmaceutical Fraternity, 1905-1906 and one of the most capable of the members of the medical profession in Baltimore county. 

Dr. Bowen, was educated in public schools in Baltimore city and county, Marston's University School in Baltimore (now the home of MedChi), and University of Maryland School of Medicine, matriculating there in October, 1899, and graduating with an M.D. in 1903. 

He also attended clinics at Liverpool University, Liverpool, England, and had previous practical experience while acting as assistant to the children's department of Northeast Dispensary, also as assistant aurist and ophthalmologist at that dispensary. 

He was a member of the American Medical Association; Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, where he served as President in 1926; Baltimore County Medical Association; member and warden of St. John's Church (P.E.) of Mt. Washington; member of the board of governors of Mt. Washington Athletic Club two years; and grand alpha (1904-05) of Kappa Psi Medical and Pharmaceutical Fraternity.

In 1940, Dr. Bowen retired as Commissioner of Health of Baltimore County because of serious illness after 26 years in charge of' the Department. He spent his retirement working on a history of Baltimore's Mount Washington neighborhood, where he had lived on South Road for his entire life. Dr. Bowen died in 1944 of a heart ailment.