 | |
m. 20 Apr 1931 |
Home
Search
Print
Login
Add Bookmark
-
| Born |
4 May 1935 |
St. Louis, Missouri  |
| Died |
28 May 2005 |
Washington, DC |
| Buried |
|
Mt. Kisco, New York |
| Spouse |
Living | F21 |
| Married |
|
|
-
| Photos |
 | Carranor Hunt and Polo Club, Perrysburg, Ohio - Some Will Recognize and Get Nostalgic! (Bowes-Bigelow)
|
 | Urban E. Bowes (1892-1969) and Margery Bigelow Bowes (1896-1987) on the Beach, 1934
Taken by a hotel photographer at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago
Status: Located |
 | Urban E. Bowes (1892-1969) and Margery Bigelow Bowes (1896-1987) with Friends
Taken 1939 with friends Doris and Jack Thomas. Jack became president of Owens Corning Fiberglas.
Status: Located |
|
| Urban E. Bowes (1892-1969) and Margery Bigelow Bowes (1896-1987)
Taken about 1948 at Bent Creek Ranch, North Carolina
Status: Located |
 | Urban E. Bowes (1892-1969) and Margery Bigelow Bowes (1896-1987) at Son's Wedding, 1956
Status: Located |
 | 315 E. Front St., Perrysburg, Ohio - Home of Urban E. Bowes (1892-1969) and Margery Bigelow Bowes (1896-1987)
The Hall House
It's many people's favorite Victorian home in Perrysburg, has looked out from 315 East Front Street for over 150 years now, and it was built by James M. Hall.
Local records don't reveal a great deal about early pioneer James Manning Hall -- such as where he came from or where he died -- but he lived here as early as 1836 and bought the property on which he was to build this house in 1843. It is believed that the house was erected around 1850, one of four he is said to have built here.
This is a showcase example of Italianate architecture in Northwest Ohio, and like so many of our old homes, it has been excellently preserved. One notable feature is the wide friezeboard with the three windows covered by ornamental metal fretwork, and the paired brackets met by connecting bed molding. There is a truncated hip roof with iron cresting and tall, shuttered windows, speaking of which, some original windows on the west have been bricked in. A main chimney near the southwest corner of the house has extensive brick corbelling and a cut-out center with twin vents. The semi-circular portico overhang, added in the 1930s, has full Ionic entablature with fluted Doric columns. Two-story bays on the east and west sides (also additions) have carved stone lintels. An ocular window above an added multi-paned picture window on the west side is original. Sidelights flank a single entrance door with an etched glass transom.
James Hall operated a dry goods and grocery store and at one time also sold fire insurance. He was Perrysburg's postmaster in 1842, a village councilman in 1857 and secretary of the Hydraulic Canal Company that powered local manufacturing firms of the era.
He was a Presbyterian, charter member of Phoenix Lodge, F. & A. M. and one of the contributors toward a $15,000 bond providing for the construction of a county courthouse (later the now razed Township Hall) in hopes that the county seat would be returned here from Bowling Green.
Status: Located |
 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
|
 | Margery Bowes (1935-2005) and Parents Urban E. Bowes (1892-1968) and Margery Bigelow Bowes (1896-1987)
|
 | David B. Bowes (1933-) and Margery Bigelow Bowes (1935-2005) Standing before Statue in Hometown of Perrysburg, Ohio
|
-
| Notes |
- NOTES FROM DAVID B. BOWES ABOUT URBAN AND MARGERY:
"Banyas [Urban, so called by his grandchildren, children of David and Judy Bowes] was raised a Catholic but, as I've decided, he was bound to be a research chemist and thus have a problem with transubstantiation (Catholic belief that communion--Eucharist--wine actually turns into Christ's blood.) Sure he had at least a question about ph! Gramma Marge [Urban's wife] was sent around the world aboard the Penrith Castle by Nana in hopes she would forget 'that Catholic.' [She danced with General McAruthur in the Phillipines during this trip while visiting her childhood friend Mrs. Dean (Tub) Hudnut, whose hubby was a career army officer.] Didn't work and Banyas became a genuine favorite of his mother-in-law. He always thought children should take their mother's religion and their father's politics. So he drove Margie and me to Sunday school and church but never came in--except maybe for a quick peek on Christmas Eve. The only reason the monsignor at St. Rose Catholic Church down the street even knew Dad was nominally Catholic--they saw each other regularly at village school board meetings--was because Cousin Vince wrote him that fact. When the reporter gathering info for the obituary asked me if St. Rose where the funeral was to be held was 'his parish,' I replied that the deceased 'was a Catholic by heritage though not by current practice, if that's not a distinction without a difference.' So it ran as it ran. When at the funeral we saw Vince sitting up there in his monk's hood, mother whispered, 'Oh no! If that's Vincent it means [the Bowes's] have come to get Urb.' But he was buried in Ft. Meigs (protestant) Cemetery and at the reception afterwards at 550 E. Front St., Vince and the Episcopal parson from Toledo and I hoisted a few Canadian Mists on the rocks. Love, Dad"
- MARGERY AND URBAN BOWES MEMORIAL GARTH, COLLEGE OF PREACHERS, WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL
Following are notes to a service dedicating the Garth in Margery and Urban's name, to be maintained in perpetuity by a trust set up by David B. Bowes and R. J. Tofalo for that purpose:
A Service of Remembrance
In Memory of Margery B. Bowes and Urban E. Bowes
Friday, November 29, 2002 at 4:00 p.m.
College of Preachers Garth
Welcome
[As we begin our service, we are thinking of Virginia and Martha and Bill and Suzanne and Max and Torrie who were unable to be with us here today.]
Introductory Sentences of Scripture
None of us has life in himself,
And none becomes his own master when he dies.
For if we have life, we are alive in the Lord,
And if we die, we die in the Lord.
So then, whether we live or die,
We are the Lord?s possession.
Collect
God of grace and glory, we remember before you today Margery B. Bowes and Urban E. Bowes. We thank you for giving them to us as parents, grandparents, and friends to know and to love as companions on our earthly pilgrimage. In this beautiful quiet garden that has been dedicated to you in their memory, give us faith to see in death the gate of eternal life, so that in quiet confidence we may continue our course on earth, until by your call we are reunited with those who have gone before us; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
A Prayer for the College of Preachers
O Lord Jesus Christ, who through your Apostle Saint Paul has taught us that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God: grant to your servants in the College of Preachers so truly and effectually to preach the gospel of your grace, that many may be brought to the knowledge of your truth, and built up in the communion of your holy church, and so your name be glorified and your kingdom enlarged; who lives and reigns with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, world with end.
Amen.
Readings
Sirach 44:1-15 Let us now praise famous men
Black Elk Everything the power of the world does is done in a circle
Everything the Power of the World does
is done in a circle. The sky is round,
and I have heard that the earth is round
like a ball, and so are all the stars.
The wind, in its greatest power, whirls.
Birds make their nests in circles,
for theirs is the same religion as ours.
The sun comes forth and goes down again
in a circle. The moon does the same,
and both are round. Even the seasons
form a great circle in their changing,
and always come back again to where they were.
The life of man is a circle from childhood to childhood,
and so it is in everything where power moves.
Black Elk (1863-1950)
Remembrances
Benediction
|
-
|
Find
Surnames
Bookmarks
Places
Dates
Cemeteries
Search People
Search Families
Photos
Documents
Histories
Recordings
Videos
Albums
All Media
What's New
Most Wanted
Reports
Statistics
Notes
Sources
Repositories
Contact Us
Home
Search
Print
Login
Add Bookmark
Family
Suggest
