Louis Howard Stowe

Male4 April 1925–11 March 2000

Brief Life History of Louis Howard

When Louis Howard Stowe was born on 4 April 1925, in Elgin, Union, Oregon, United States, his father, John Henry Stowe, was 35 and his mother, Mary Zazel Carpenter, was 25. He married Patricia Juanita Backus on 7 August 1944, in Clark, Washington, United States. He lived in La Grande, Union, Oregon, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. He died on 11 March 2000, in Pendleton, Umatilla, Oregon, United States, at the age of 74.

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Louis Howard Stowe
1925–2000
Patricia Juanita Backus
1928–2001
Marriage: 7 August 1944

Sources (15)

  • Louis H Stowe, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Louis Stowe - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Louis Stowe
  • Louis H Stowe, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"

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  • Marriage
    7 August 1944Clark, Washington, United States

    • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (5)

    World Events (8)

    1927

    Age 2

    Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

    1940

    Age 15

    Galloping Gertie is the reference used to describe the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It opened on July 1, 1940 four months later it no longer existed. On November 7, 1940 the wind gusts came up to 40 miles an hour causing the bridge to twist and vibrate violently before it collapsed into Puget Sound. The only victim of the bridge collapsing was a three-legged paralyzed dog named Tubby whose owner tried to rescue him from the car but he wouldn’t go with him.

    1945 · Peace in a Post War World

    Age 20

    The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.

    Name Meaning

    English: habitational name from any of various places called Stow or Stowe, all named with Old English stow ‘place, holy place, assembly place’ (a word akin to stoc; see Stoke ). In a few cases the surname appears to be topographic, denoting someone who lived by a church or monastery, from Middle English stow(e) ‘holy place, church, monastery’. Places in Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, and Staffordshire having this origin use the spelling Stowe, but the spelling difference cannot be relied on as an indication of locality of origin. The final -e in part represents a trace of the Old English dative inflection.

    Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.

    Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 司徒, see Situ .

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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