Brother Stowers came to the Conference by transfer in 1867, and first served as Professor in the Lawrence University.  In 1869, having been elected President of the Upper Iowa University, he was transferred to the Upper Iowa Conference.  He returned, however, to the Wisconsin Conference the following year, and was stationed at Janesville.  His next charge was Whitewater, where, during his three years’ Pastorate, he achieved great success in the erection of a fine brick Church, and in securing large accessions to the membership.

Brother Stowers is a man of great energy and decided talent.  He has an excellent voice, a ready utterance, and abundant illustrations, which render his pulpit labors attractive.  He is an able and successful Minister.

At the adjournment of the Conference, the Preachers hastened to their new fields of labor, perhaps hardly thinking, in their eagerness to be at their work, of the tearful eyes that were looking after them, and the aching hearts of those brethren who, no longer able to go out with them to the battle, were compelled to languish in hospitals, or linger by the wayside.

As for myself, I returned to Milwaukee, and retired to the quiet home a few personal friends in the city and elsewhere had assisted me to build, and where I now write this, the last line of

Thirty years in the itinerancy.