Called Jack, he was the son of Michael & Alice (née Britt) McGowan of Ringsend, Co., Dublin, Ireland. He was their 2nd son to be named John, the 1st John, the family's eldest child, died at age 5 in 1885.
Jack emigrated to America at 16 with his brother Tom to join their father who had left a few months before them.. He enlisted in the United States Navy in 1917 and served until the end of World War I.
During the summer of 1920, Jack and his sister Nance were back in Ireland visiting their sister Elizabeth Mansfield. It was during this stay that Jack & Nance became Godparents to Elizabeth's son Morgan O.P. Mansfield.
In September 1920 he married Bess McGinty in New York. The McGowans had 6 children, all born and raised in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Jack spent the next 40 years on the waters around New York & Long Island as a Captain for the Standard Oil subsidy Socony Vacuum Co. He was a life long member of the Park Slope Civic League and Chairman of it's membership committee.
✞ Captain John Joseph 'Jack' McGowan is buried at Third Calvary with his wife Bess, father Capt. Michael, Michael's 2nd wife Agnes and his nephew Tom Mansfield, the brother of his Godson Morgan O.P. Mansfield. The tombstone lists only Jack's name.
Called Jack, he was the son of Michael & Alice (née Britt) McGowan of Ringsend, Co., Dublin, Ireland. He was their 2nd son to be named John, the 1st John, the family's eldest child, died at age 5 in 1885.
Jack emigrated to America at 16 with his brother Tom to join their father who had left a few months before them.. He enlisted in the United States Navy in 1917 and served until the end of World War I.
During the summer of 1920, Jack and his sister Nance were back in Ireland visiting their sister Elizabeth Mansfield. It was during this stay that Jack & Nance became Godparents to Elizabeth's son Morgan O.P. Mansfield.
In September 1920 he married Bess McGinty in New York. The McGowans had 6 children, all born and raised in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Jack spent the next 40 years on the waters around New York & Long Island as a Captain for the Standard Oil subsidy Socony Vacuum Co. He was a life long member of the Park Slope Civic League and Chairman of it's membership committee.
✞ Captain John Joseph 'Jack' McGowan is buried at Third Calvary with his wife Bess, father Capt. Michael, Michael's 2nd wife Agnes and his nephew Tom Mansfield, the brother of his Godson Morgan O.P. Mansfield. The tombstone lists only Jack's name.
Inscription
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McGOWAN
1893 John J. 1972
(birth year is incorrect)
Gravesite Details
This is not the original tombstone. This one appears to have been placed sometime after 2010. Calvary has no record of a new tombstone being placed. This one lists an incorrect birth year for Jack.
Family Members
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John McGowan
1879–1885
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Mary Anne McGowan
1881–1882
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Mrs Elizabeth McGowan Mansfield
1882–1980
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Michael McGowan
1886–1892
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Mary Alice McGowan Brown
1888–1920
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Matthias McGowan
1889–1889
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Thomas McGowan
1890–1965
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Anna "Nance" McGowan McLarney
1892–1961
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Capt Michael Patrick McGowan
1896–1984
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Morgan McGowan
1898–1977
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Martha McGowan
1898–1898
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Joseph Francis Patrick McGowan
1900–1975
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