When Rodney Clyde Stowell was born on 29 November 1874, in Plainview, Wabasha, Minnesota, United States, his father, Delos Benjamin Stowell, was 30 and his mother, Lana Ann Finch, was 28. He married Angela May Purcell on 14 July 1908, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Eyota, Olmsted, Minnesota, United States in 1885 and La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States in 1900. He died on 15 February 1913, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Washington, United States.
English: habitational name from Stowell (Somerset), Stowell (Gloucestershire), East and West Stowell in Wilcot (Wiltshire), or Stawell (Somerset), all named with Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + wella ‘well, spring, stream’. The surname was taken to the Isle of Man by 1511, from whence it migrated to Lancashire and Yorkshire.
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