Brief Life History of Clifford Wilson
When Clifford Wilson Bower was born on 9 September 1903, in Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia, United States, his father, William Henry Bower, was 33 and his mother, Mary Estella Martin, was 30. He married Virginia Roberta Ball on 12 November 1939. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940 and Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1940. He died on 23 July 1959, in Winnemucca, Humboldt, Nevada, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Fort Douglas Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Clifford W Bowers, "United States 1950 Census"
- Clifford Wilson Bowers, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Clifford W Bowers, "Utah, World War II Index to Army Veterans of Utah, 1939-1945"
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1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1908 · The Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot
Being listed on the National Register of Historic Places, The Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot dates to the more prosperous era in the history of American railroad travel. Originally called the Union Station, it was jointly constructed by the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroads and the Oregon Short Line. The platforms behind the station ran north-to-south, parallel to the first main line built in the Salt Lake Valley. When Amtrak was formed in 1971, it took over the passenger services at the station, but all trains were moved to the Rio Grande station after it joined Amtrak. In January 2006, The Depot was opened as a shopping center that housed shops, restaurants and music venues.
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English bour, bor(e), bur(e) (Old English būr) ‘cottage, chamber, bower’, denoting either a ‘cottager’ or ‘chamber-servant’, or a topographic name for someone who lived in a small cottage, or a habitational name from any of various minor places called from this word in Somerset, Sussex, Essex, and Peeblesshire. Compare Bowerman and Bowring .
English: variant of Bowyer , for a maker or seller of bows or an archer, from Middle English bowyere, an agent derivative of Old English boga ‘bow’.
Americanized form of German Bauer ‘peasant’ or ‘neighbor, fellow citizen’, or of its Dutch cognate Bouwer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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