When Jesse Noah Thomas Rowley was born on 18 February 1874, in Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States, his father, John Rowley, was 32 and his mother, Mary Ann Gadd, was 25. He married Lucy Alvina Norton on 25 May 1896, in Colonia Díaz, Ascensión, Chihuahua, Mexico. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1940 and Supervisorial District 1, Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 27 October 1966, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.
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The first missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints entered Mexico in two groups. The first group went into Sonora and baptized the first 5 members in Latin America. The second group went down to Mexico City and handed out translated verses of the Book of Mormon. The missionaries worked throughout the nation until 1889 and baptized many. Because of the government’s views of polygamy, missionaries weren't allowed to teach and baptize while the mission was closed from 1889 to 1901. The church has since increased from the initial 5 to 1.5 Million members.
George W. Sirrine, Charles I. Robson, Charles Crismon, and Francis M. Pomeroy broke ahead of the Mesa Company to determine the permanent location for the new settlers. They arrived to Ft. Utah in Arizona on December 1877. The remainder of the nine families of the Mesa Company arrived on February 14, 1878. The company moved five miles upstream to utilize an ancient canal. The townsite was known as Mesa City.
A hydroelectric power plant was built on the Crosscut Canal which provided power for the first electric streetlights in Mesa. The power was then sold to bring electricity to businesses in the area.
English: habitational name from one or more of various places called Rowley or Rowly, such as Rowley Regis (Staffordshire), Rowley (Devon, Durham), Rowleygreen Farm (Hertfordshire), Rowly (Surrey), Rowley (East Yorkshire), Rowley, near Bardsey (Yorkshire), Rowley in Lepton (Yorkshire), and Rowley Hill (Essex). The placenames probably all derive from Old English rūh ‘rough’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, though the East Yorkshire place may have been named with hlāw ‘mound, hill’ as the second element.
Irish: from Ó Roghallaigh, a variant of Ó Raghailligh. See Riley and O'Reilly .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related Names[I have a hand written copy in Jesse’s writing of this story– written April 2, 1955, Mesa, Arizona – This is a little bit different format – no paragraphing. – This version has additions for Jan 195 …
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