[3] Rowland wrote a weekly column, "Mabelle's Letter on Fashion and Frivolity" for The Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper as a young woman.

[6] In 1916 Rowland organized a wartime fundraiser, a cookbook, with recipes contributed by over 200 actors and actresses.

[3][4][11] Rowland was a benefactor of the Bide-a-Wee Home for Friendless Animals, and received a medal for her support of the organization.

Her first husband was John B. Rowland, head of an advertising agency; they married in 1900, and he died from typhoid fever in 1908.

[13][14] Her second husband was Robert Emmet Mason Goolrick, a lieutenant in the United States Army; they married in 1911, and later divorced.