When Myrtle I. Bowman was born in 1917, her father, Jesse E Bowman, was 30 and her mother, Catherine Isabelle Gray, was 24. She died on 4 July 1921, in Greenfield, Saratoga, New York, United States, at the age of 4, and was buried in Greenfield Center, Saratoga, New York, United States.
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U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Voters in New York approve a bill giving women the right to vote. This is passed three years prior to the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution which allowed women to vote nationwide.
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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