A doc­tor’s son, Row­ley at­tend­ed the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Ro­ches­ter and Ro­ches­ter The­o­lo­gic­al Sem­in­a­ry in New York. He was or­dained a Bap­tist min­is­ter in 1878, and pas­tored for over 30 years in sev­er­al lo­ca­tions: Ti­tus­ville, Penn­syl­van­ia; North Adams, Mass­achusetts; Oak Park, Ill­i­nois; Fall Ri­ver, Mass­a­chus­etts; and at the First Bap­tist Church in Bos­ton, Mass­a­chus­etts. Around 1908, he be­came pres­i­dent of the Mass­a­chus­etts So­ci­ety for Pre­ven­tion of Cru­el­ty to An­im­als, where he served un­til re­tire­ment in 1945. Ogle­thorpe Un­i­ver­si­ty in At­lan­ta, Georg­ia, named the Row­ley School of Hu­man­i­ties af­ter him.

• Choir Her­ald, Ap­ril 1947, p. 174
• Hustad, p. 311
• Taylor, p. 404

1. I Will Sing the Won­drous Sto­ry