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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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.
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.
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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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