When James Westley Bowden was born on 12 December 1897, in Oregon, United States, his father, James Heron Bowden, was 27 and his mother, Minnie Esther Smart, was 15. He married Fern Mavis Chandler on 7 November 1926, in Baker, Oregon, United States. He lived in Jordan Valley, Malheur, Oregon, United States in 1900 and Baker Election Precinct 2, Baker, Oregon, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 26 September 1954, in Oregon, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of several places called Bowden or Bowdon. Bowden in Devon and Derbyshire and Bowdon in Cheshire are named with Old English boga ‘bow’ + dūn ‘hill’, i.e. ‘hill shaped like a bow’; one in Leicestershire (Bugedone in Domesday Book) comes, according to Ekwall, from the Old English personal name Būga (masculine) or Bucge (feminine) + dūn. There are also Scottish places of this name, but there are comparatively few bearers of the surname Bowden north of the border. In England, the surname is found most frequently in Lancashire and in the West Country. In Devon and Cornwall there has been some confusion with the Norman personal name Baldwin .
English: topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill, from Middle English buve dun ‘above the hill’ (Old English būfan dūne, as in the placename Bowden, Wiltshire).
Scottish: habitational name from Bowden in Roxburghshire, named from Old English bōthl ‘dwelling-house’ + Old English denu ‘valley’.
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