Rowland was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1831 and lived
there until his family migrated to Oregon in 1844. Rowland pursued his
education in Virginia at Bethany College. He graduated in 1856 and returned
to Oregon in 1859. He created the first State Teachers Institute in 1862. In 1865, he was named president of Christian
College in Monmouth, where he served until 1869. He left the college to
pursue medicine and studied for several years at Willamette University
in Salem. In 1874 he became State Superintendent of Public Instruction
until 1891, when he was appointed superintendent of Oregon State Insane
Asylum. President Rowland was known as a kind and educated man; he died
in January 19, 1908.
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