When Edward Parsons Dow was born in 1896, in Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Charles Dow, was 25 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 22. He married Rozella Theresa Crosgrove on 15 October 1935, in Grand Forks, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States. He lived in Washington, District of Columbia, United States in 1935 and Judicial Township 4, Shasta, California, United States in 1940. He died on 28 January 1973, in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Scottish: nickname from Gaelic dubh ‘black’ (see Duff ).
English: from the Middle English personal name Dow, a rhyming pet form of Row(e), representing a common pronunciation of Rolf, a side form of Ralph. See Rolfe and compare Daw , Dawson , and Dowson . Alternatively, in East Anglia the name may be a variant of Dove .
Americanized form of Dutch Douw: from the personal name Douwe, from Frisian dou ‘pigeon’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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