When Doy Bowman was born in 1872, in Washington, Tennessee, United States, his father, James Polk Bowman, was 27 and his mother, Martha Ann Cox, was 27. He died in 1876, in his hometown, at the age of 4, and was buried in Fairview United Methodist Church Cemetery, Jonesborough, Washington, Tennessee, United States.
English and Scottish: occupational name for an archer, hunter or soldier armed with a bow, from Middle English bow(e)man, bouman (from Old English boga ‘bow’ + mann ‘man’). This word was distinguished from Bowyer , which denoted a maker or seller of bows.
Americanized form of German Baumann or the Dutch cognate Bouwman .
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