 Possibly Gowrie Junction's best known resident remains Frank Riethmuller, born in 1884 in Glenvale outside Toowoomba, who taught at Gowrie Junction's primary school from 1899 to 1905.He probably stayed with his newly married sister, Sophia, whose husband August Bischof had a farm at Gowrie Junction.Riethmuller went on to become Australia's second-best-known rose breeder.