Oden Bowie, a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 34th governor of the State of Maryland in the United States from 1869 to 1872.
Oden Bowie
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad
The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad (B&P) operated from Baltimore, Maryland, southwest to Washington, D.C., from 1872 to 1902. Owned and operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad, it was the second railroad company to connect the nation's capital to the Northeastern U.S., and competed with the older Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad in an 1875 advertisement in Boyd's Directory
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Passenger Terminal, on the future National Mall in Washington, D.C. U.S. President James A. Garfield was assassinated in 1881 in this since demolished station.