Henry B. Bowerman (1835-1901) was born in Hallowell, Ontario, Canada, and died in Woodbine, Iowa. He immigrated to the United States in the 1850s and settled in Brooklyn, Wisconsin, where he married Lucretia S. Bowerman (b. Utley) in 1858. He was a farmer, carpenter, and patent agent. Bowerman served in the American Civil War as a corporal in Company B, 4th Wisconsin Infantry. By 1870 he was living in Ripon, Wisconsin, and by 1880 in Dunlap, Iowa. In 1881 he was appointed Postmaster of Kennard, Nebraska, and he also went to work for the Sioux City & Pacific Railroad Company as an agent and brakeman. In the early 1890s he was living in Fremont, Nebraska, but returned to Iowa by 1900 and settled in Woodbine. Bowerman became interested in Christian Science in the mid-1880s, subscribing to The Christian Science Journal and reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. He wrote a letter to Mary Baker Eddy in 1887 seeking advice on learning more about Christian Science healing for the benefit of his mother, Sarah B. Bowerman (b. Brewer).

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