When Elwood Macy Bowerman was born on 3 June 1861, in Ontario, Canada, his father, Judah Henry Bowerman, was 31 and his mother, Abigail Ellsworth, was 30. He had at least 2 sons with Elizabeth Catheryn Siler. He immigrated to Eastport, Kootenai, Idaho, United States in 1920 and lived in Fresno, California, United States in 1935 and Judicial Township 11, Fresno, California, United States in 1940. He died on 5 December 1940, in Reedley, Fresno, California, United States, at the age of 79.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
English: occupational name from Middle English bureman, meaing either ‘chamberer, personal servant’ or ‘cottager’. See Bower 1.
Americanized form of German Bauermann, a variant of Bauer .
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