Born: 3 March 1863, United States
Died: 7 July 1904
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Ariel Serena Hedges
The following is excerpted from “400 Outstanding Women of the World and the Costumology of Their Time” by Minna Moscherosch Schmidt, published in 1933.
Mrs. Ariel Serena Hedges Bowen, wife of Dr. J. W. E. Bowen of Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Georgia, was born in Newark, N. J. Her father was a Presbyterian clergyman in that city.
She had graduated from Lincoln University, Pennsylvania and had organized churches in New York.
She attended the Avery Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She went to high school in Springfield, Massachusetts, she took the teacher’s course and examination and passed it creditably, and was favorably considered as teacher for one of the schools of that city. She was then called to teach history and English in the Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama under Professor Booker T. Washington. She moved to Atlanta with her husband in 1893. She became Professor of Music in Clark University in 1895. She was the State President of the Georgia W. C. T. U. No. 2. She has written volumes, among which may be mentioned, Music in the I and the Ethics of Reform. She was an accomplished pianist and a pipe organist. She is regarded as one of most outstanding and cultured women of her race.