Collected Biographies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798892113359)

Collected Biographies provides descendant reports for the Barns, Gates, Montgomery, Nye, Pierce, Rose, and Rowland families, the earliest of which date back to the seventeenth century.

About the Author

John H. Rowland is a retired professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Wyoming, where he taught for thirty-five years. He also taught at the University of Washington in Seattle and the University of Nevada in Reno as well as visiting positions held at Brown University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Systems Development Cooperation in Santa Monica, California.

He grew up in State College, Pennsylvania where his father was a professor of accounting at Penn State. Through activities in the Boy Scouts, he became interested in back-packing, cannoning, and downhill skiing. In Laramie he became fascinated with tennis and competed in many tournaments in Wyoming and Colorado.