When Carl Woodrow Bowen was born on 18 July 1919, in Flora, Clay, Illinois, United States, his father, Robert Lee Bowen, was 39 and his mother, Mabel Passmore, was 41. He married Rosalyn York on 8 March 1940, in Henderson, Henderson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Harter Township, Clay, Illinois, United States in 1920. He died on 21 December 2002, in Cisne, Wayne, Illinois, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Flora, Clay, Illinois, United States.
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The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
The first Woman's World's Fair was held in Chicago in 1925. The idea of the completely women-run fair was to display the progress of ideas, work, and products of twentieth-century women
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Owain ‘son of Owain’ (see Owen ), with fused patronymic marker (a)p, which is normally voiced before a vowel.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadhacháin ‘descendant of Buadhachán’, a diminutive of Buadhach ‘victorious’ (see Bohan ).
Irish: used to ‘translate’ Ó Cnáimhín ‘descendant of Cnáimhín’, a personal name meaning ‘little bone’ or ‘little body’, see Nevin 1.
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