Brief Life History of Alfred
When Alfred Bowes was born in September 1870, in Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, George Christian Bowes, was 37 and his mother, Ellen G Turner, was 37. He married Bessie Anderson on 26 August 1896, in Brockton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1910 and Lansing, New Hope, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920.
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- Alfred Bowes in household of George Bowes, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Legacy NFS Source: Alfred Bowes - Government record: birth-name: Alfred Bowes
- Alfred W Bowes, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
Name Meaning
English (northern): habitational name from Bowes (formerly in North Yorkshire, now in County Durham), or from some other place so called, the placename being derived from the plural of Old English boga ‘bow’, here referring to bends in a river. Alternatively, a topographic name for someone who lived ‘(at the) arches or bridge’. See Bow 1.
English: variant of Bow , with excrescent -s.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadhaigh (see Bogue ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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