Eva Gow

Brief Life History of Eva

When Eva Gow was born in 1903, in Bellevue, Sarpy, Nebraska, United States, her father, James Henry Gow Sr., was 47 and her mother, Emma Hike, was 39. She died in 1903, in her hometown, at the age of 0.

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Family Time Line

James Henry Gow Sr.
1856–1939
Emma Hike
1864–1923
Lucy Elizabeth Gow
1881–1947
Lucretia Mae Gow
1883–1971
James Henry Gow Jr.
1885–1965
Frankie Gow
1887–1887
Cora Edna Gow
1889–1976
Mattie Minerva Gow
1891–1986
Mary Ellen Gow
1894–1929
Elsie Viola Gow
1896–1963
Joseph Samuel Gow
1897–1966
William David Gow
1901–1963
Eva Gow
1903–1903
Esther Buelah Gow
1908–1985

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  • Legacy NFS Source: Eva Gow - Memory of Someone: Memory of a sibling: birth-name: Eva Gow

World Events (1)

1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor

A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.

Name Meaning

Scottish: occupational name from Gaelic gobha ‘smith’, or a shortened form of McGow from Mac Gobhann and Mac a' Ghobhainn, ‘son of the smith’.

Irish: from Mac an Ghobha, a variant of Mac an Ghabhann ‘son of the smith’, see Gowan and McGowan . Smith is used as a synonym for Gow in counties Cavan and Meath.

Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 伍 (see Wu 2) and 高 (see Gao 1).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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