John M. Stowell

Stowell was born in Alexander, New York in 1824.^[1] He attended Alexander Classical School and Marietta College before moving to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1856.

Stowell was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1862 before serving as Mayor of Milwaukee from 1882 to 1884. He was a Democrat.^[2]

He died in 1907 in Milwaukee#cite_note-2 and is interred in Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee.^[3]