When Joseph Dows Jr was born on 22 October 1813, in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Joseph Dows, was 53 and his mother, Mary Sprake, was 24. He married Maria Ann Hutchins on 15 March 1841. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 23 August 1863, in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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German:
habitational name from Dosse in Altmark.
variant of Dose 1.
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