Rowell, Chester Harvey (1867-1948)

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Amos Pinchot to Theodore Roosevelt, December 3, 1912

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, May 10, 1917

Committee on American and Japanese Relations Invitation List, April 8, 1921

General Committee on the Limitation of Armament Declaration and Membership, November 1921

Interview with Jane Addams, August 30, 1923 (excerpts)

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Interview with Jane Addams, August 30, 1923 (excerpt)

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Jane Addams to Frank F. Bunker, ca. August 30, 1923 (summary)

Jane Addams to Chester H. Rowell, June 5, 1914

Chester H. Rowell to Jane Addams, June 10, 1914

Address on the Non-Partisan League of Women Voters, September 7, 1923 (excerpt)

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Birth Date

1867-11-01

Death Date

1948-04-12

Birthplace

Bloomington, IL

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Chester Harvey Rowell graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He studied at various universities in Germany, France. and Italy. Rowell was a journalist and civic leader, working as editor and publisher of the Fresno Republican from 1898-1920. He co-founded the progressive-Republican activist group, the Lincoln-Roosevelt League. Rowell was also a political science professor at Stanford University from 1927 until 1934. He later worked as a syndicated columnist and then as editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. He was a delegate at several conventions and ran an unsuccessful California State Senate campaign. Rowell was also a member of both the Presidential Emergency Boards on Railroad Strikes and the California Railroad Commission.

Rowell married Myrtle Marie Lingle in 1897. The couple had five children together. Rowell died in 1948.