 She moved to Atlanta with her husband in 1893, where the couple raised a family of four children (one son and three daughters).Bowen became Professor of Music in Clark University in 1895, writing broadly on music ("Music in the Home"), as well as being an accomplished vocalist and musician with the piano and pipe organ.Bowen also was a notable figure in the Southern Women's Christian Temperance Union, writing "The Ethics of Reform" and serving as state president of the Georgia W. C. T. U., No.