Dennis Bowen, a prominent Buffalo attorney, in addition to being one of Buffalo's original Park Commissioners, was an original member of the Board of Commissioners of The City and County Hall while continuing his Buffalo Parks Commission duties. Among other civic organizations, he was a trustee of the Buffalo Female Academy. With D. P. Rumsey, he was a founding member of the tony Falconwood Club, which had its clubhouse on Grand Island. He was also a Trustee of the Buffalo Horticultural Society.
It is of interest that Grover Cleveland, future Mayor of Buffalo and President of the United States, studied law in Bowen's firm (Rogers, Bowen and Rogers, later Bowen, Rogers and Locke), for four years and remained with the firm for another four years after he was admitted to the bar in 1859.
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