Dorothy Bowman

Brief Life History of Dorothy

When Dorothy Bowman was born on 24 August 1917, in El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States, her father, Claudious Bowman, was 26 and her mother, Jennie Stark Robinson, was 27. She married Hugh Day McClellan on 3 May 1944, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Rancho Dublan, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico in 1930. She died on 1 January 2005, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Hugh Day McClellan
1917–2006
Dorothy Bowman
1917–2005
Marriage: 3 May 1944
Karen McClellan
1946–1998

Sources (43)

  • Dorothy Bowman in household of Claudious Bowman, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Dorothy Bowman, "Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1935"
  • DOROTHY B. McCLELLAN, "BillionGraves Index"

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World Events (8)

1918 · Attempting to Stop the War

To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.

1929 · The Great Depression Arrives

Like most of the country, the economy of Texas suffered greatly after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Thousands of city workers were suddenly unemployed and relied on a variety of government relief programs; unemployed Mexican citizens were required to take one-way bus tickets to Mexico.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

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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