JOHN N. BOWLDS, farmer, P.O. Fairfield, is one of the most quiet, industrious and honest of the many worthy citizens of Jasper Township.  He is the son of John and Jane (Fulkerson) Bowlds, and was born July 8, 1821, in Nelson County, Ky., where he remained till he was eighteen years of age, and then removed with his parents to Daviess County in the same state, where he resided until 1861, when he came to Wayne County, Ill., and settled on the southwest of northeast quarter of SEction 14, in Jasper Township, his present home.  John, son of James Bowlds, was born in St.Mary's County, Md., about 1785, and died in Nelson County, Ky in 1813, and wasa buried at Bardstown.  James was born in Maryland, and died near Fairfield, Ky., at the advanced age of onehundred and one years.  The Fulkersons were an old New Jersey family, and settled at a very early day seven miles northeast of Bardstown.  With them Gen. Washington often stopped while in New Jersey during the Revolutionary war.  Subject was married January 8, 1856, to Miss Winifred A. Bolds, in Daviess County, Ky., and to them were born eleven children, seven of whom are living, viz., James J., born November 23, 1856; Bertha A., June 26, 1859; John M., March 16, 1862; William F.,  May 10, 1867; Theresa S., October 28, 1870; Charles R., October 29, 1875, and Joseph P., April 10, 1881.  Subject obtained a common school education in Kentucky during his boyhood, and has been a reading man ever since he reached his majority.  He is, by occupation, a successful farmer, having 155 acres of very fertile land, about 100 of which are highly cultivated; producint in abundance, by careful tillage, all the crops raised in this portion of Illinois.  He also, in its season, successfully runs a factory for the manufacture of sorghum molasses.  Mr. Bowlds was reared in the faith of the Catholic Church, of which he has ever remained an intelligent and consistent member.  He was formerly an Old-Line Whig, but is now identified with the Democratic party.