Childhood
He was born in 1826 at Fairview Plantation in Collington, Prince George's County, Maryland, the oldest son of Colonel William Duckett Bowie and Eliza Mary Oden.
He spent the bulk of his childhood at Fairview where he was educated by a private tutor until his mother died when he was nine years old. After his mother's death, he was sent to the preparatory department of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland where studied for three years. At age twelve, he enrolled in St. Mary's Seminary and University and graduated in July 1845 as valedictorian of his class.
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