Daniel Dow was born in 1771 in
Connecticut and died in 1860 in Page
County, Iowa. His grave is
about 10 miles southwest of Clarinda
in Grove Cemetery, about ¾ of a mile
west of College Springs. Grove
Cemetery was established on unplowed
prairie and is now mowed. It
is burned occasionally to renew the
grass and wild flowers. All the
graves are on the east side of a
steep hill drive. The DAR marker is
on Daniel Dow’s tall, narrow
monument about three quarters of the
way up the hill.
After the death of his wife in 1857
in New York state, Dow moved with
two grandsons to College Springs
where two of his sons had settled
earlier. Mary Eliza Dow, a
granddaughter, came the next year
from New York to live in the College
Springs area near her grandfather.
His service included 1st Militia
Company, 5th Regiment, while a
resident of Coventry, Connecticut.
He may have served as messenger in
the “company of alarm.”
Daniel
Dow