From the Yale Alumni Obituaries
Herbert Ovid Bowers, B.A. 1892.
Father, Nicholas Theophilus Bowers, a cigar manufacturer; son of Zelotes and Fanny (Vinton) Bowers
Mother, Martha Eddy (Powers) Bowers; daughter of Charles and Lydia (Norris) Powers.
Brother, Arthur E. Bowers, '83.
Hartford Public High School. Taught in East Hartford 1887-89 Entered Yale as a Sophomore in 1889; first dispute appointments Junior and Senior years, pitcher on University Baseball Team three years; member Class Photograph Committee and Delta Kappa Epsilon. LL B. cum laude 1894; during his course in the Law School organized and was captain and pitcher of the '94 L. Baseball Team, which won the World's Intercollegiate Baseball Tournament at the World's Fair in Chicago; admitted to the bar in 1894 and had since practiced law in Manchester and South Manchester; clerk and judge of Manchester Town Court from its establishment in 1895 u n t J l J9°9; was servinghis fourth annual term as town counsel at the time of his death; member and secretary of School Board since 1895; had also served as tree warden and member of the Park Board; in 1899 and 1901 represented Manchester in Connecticut General Assembly; an organizer of the Manchester Trust & Safe Deposit Company (later known as Manchester Trust Company), in 1905 and director since then, director also of the Gammons-Nolman Company (tool manufacturers) and theOxford Specialty Company (manufacturers of furniture polish); an organizer of the Savings Bank of Manchester, of which he had been a trustee since 1905 and vice-president since 1923; member Manchester Chamber of Commerce, member of Alumni Committee on Baseball of Board of Control of University Athletic Association 1922-24, serving aschairman of committee the last year.
Married May 12, 1897, in West Hartford, Lillian Estella Shepard (B A. Smith 1892), daughter of Jason George and Catherine (Gnswold) Shepard.
Children: Sherwood Gnswold, who attended Dartmouth 1917-19 and Connecticut Agricultural College 1919-21, and Raymond Ridgway (B A 1925, LL.B. 1928).
Death due to encephalitis.
Buried in family plot in Buckland (Conn.) Cemetery.
His wife and sons survive him.
Herbert Ovid Bowers, B.A. 1892.
Father, Nicholas Theophilus Bowers, a cigar manufacturer; son of Zelotes and Fanny (Vinton) Bowers
Mother, Martha Eddy (Powers) Bowers; daughter of Charles and Lydia (Norris) Powers.
Brother, Arthur E. Bowers, '83.
Hartford Public High School. Taught in East Hartford 1887-89 Entered Yale as a Sophomore in 1889; first dispute appointments Junior and Senior years, pitcher on University Baseball Team three years; member Class Photograph Committee and Delta Kappa Epsilon. LL B. cum laude 1894; during his course in the Law School organized and was captain and pitcher of the '94 L. Baseball Team, which won the World's Intercollegiate Baseball Tournament at the World's Fair in Chicago; admitted to the bar in 1894 and had since practiced law in Manchester and South Manchester; clerk and judge of Manchester Town Court from its establishment in 1895 u n t J l J9°9; was servinghis fourth annual term as town counsel at the time of his death; member and secretary of School Board since 1895; had also served as tree warden and member of the Park Board; in 1899 and 1901 represented Manchester in Connecticut General Assembly; an organizer of the Manchester Trust & Safe Deposit Company (later known as Manchester Trust Company), in 1905 and director since then, director also of the Gammons-Nolman Company (tool manufacturers) and theOxford Specialty Company (manufacturers of furniture polish); an organizer of the Savings Bank of Manchester, of which he had been a trustee since 1905 and vice-president since 1923; member Manchester Chamber of Commerce, member of Alumni Committee on Baseball of Board of Control of University Athletic Association 1922-24, serving aschairman of committee the last year.
Married May 12, 1897, in West Hartford, Lillian Estella Shepard (B A. Smith 1892), daughter of Jason George and Catherine (Gnswold) Shepard.
Children: Sherwood Gnswold, who attended Dartmouth 1917-19 and Connecticut Agricultural College 1919-21, and Raymond Ridgway (B A 1925, LL.B. 1928).
Death due to encephalitis.
Buried in family plot in Buckland (Conn.) Cemetery.
His wife and sons survive him.
From the Yale Alumni Obituaries
Herbert Ovid Bowers, B.A. 1892.
Father, Nicholas Theophilus Bowers, a cigar manufacturer; son of Zelotes and Fanny (Vinton) Bowers
Mother, Martha Eddy (Powers) Bowers; daughter of Charles and Lydia (Norris) Powers.
Brother, Arthur E. Bowers, '83.
Hartford Public High School. Taught in East Hartford 1887-89 Entered Yale as a Sophomore in 1889; first dispute appointments Junior and Senior years, pitcher on University Baseball Team three years; member Class Photograph Committee and Delta Kappa Epsilon. LL B. cum laude 1894; during his course in the Law School organized and was captain and pitcher of the '94 L. Baseball Team, which won the World's Intercollegiate Baseball Tournament at the World's Fair in Chicago; admitted to the bar in 1894 and had since practiced law in Manchester and South Manchester; clerk and judge of Manchester Town Court from its establishment in 1895 u n t J l J9°9; was servinghis fourth annual term as town counsel at the time of his death; member and secretary of School Board since 1895; had also served as tree warden and member of the Park Board; in 1899 and 1901 represented Manchester in Connecticut General Assembly; an organizer of the Manchester Trust & Safe Deposit Company (later known as Manchester Trust Company), in 1905 and director since then, director also of the Gammons-Nolman Company (tool manufacturers) and theOxford Specialty Company (manufacturers of furniture polish); an organizer of the Savings Bank of Manchester, of which he had been a trustee since 1905 and vice-president since 1923; member Manchester Chamber of Commerce, member of Alumni Committee on Baseball of Board of Control of University Athletic Association 1922-24, serving aschairman of committee the last year.
Married May 12, 1897, in West Hartford, Lillian Estella Shepard (B A. Smith 1892), daughter of Jason George and Catherine (Gnswold) Shepard.
Children: Sherwood Gnswold, who attended Dartmouth 1917-19 and Connecticut Agricultural College 1919-21, and Raymond Ridgway (B A 1925, LL.B. 1928).
Death due to encephalitis.
Buried in family plot in Buckland (Conn.) Cemetery.
His wife and sons survive him.
Herbert Ovid Bowers, B.A. 1892.
Father, Nicholas Theophilus Bowers, a cigar manufacturer; son of Zelotes and Fanny (Vinton) Bowers
Mother, Martha Eddy (Powers) Bowers; daughter of Charles and Lydia (Norris) Powers.
Brother, Arthur E. Bowers, '83.
Hartford Public High School. Taught in East Hartford 1887-89 Entered Yale as a Sophomore in 1889; first dispute appointments Junior and Senior years, pitcher on University Baseball Team three years; member Class Photograph Committee and Delta Kappa Epsilon. LL B. cum laude 1894; during his course in the Law School organized and was captain and pitcher of the '94 L. Baseball Team, which won the World's Intercollegiate Baseball Tournament at the World's Fair in Chicago; admitted to the bar in 1894 and had since practiced law in Manchester and South Manchester; clerk and judge of Manchester Town Court from its establishment in 1895 u n t J l J9°9; was servinghis fourth annual term as town counsel at the time of his death; member and secretary of School Board since 1895; had also served as tree warden and member of the Park Board; in 1899 and 1901 represented Manchester in Connecticut General Assembly; an organizer of the Manchester Trust & Safe Deposit Company (later known as Manchester Trust Company), in 1905 and director since then, director also of the Gammons-Nolman Company (tool manufacturers) and theOxford Specialty Company (manufacturers of furniture polish); an organizer of the Savings Bank of Manchester, of which he had been a trustee since 1905 and vice-president since 1923; member Manchester Chamber of Commerce, member of Alumni Committee on Baseball of Board of Control of University Athletic Association 1922-24, serving aschairman of committee the last year.
Married May 12, 1897, in West Hartford, Lillian Estella Shepard (B A. Smith 1892), daughter of Jason George and Catherine (Gnswold) Shepard.
Children: Sherwood Gnswold, who attended Dartmouth 1917-19 and Connecticut Agricultural College 1919-21, and Raymond Ridgway (B A 1925, LL.B. 1928).
Death due to encephalitis.
Buried in family plot in Buckland (Conn.) Cemetery.
His wife and sons survive him.
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Herbert was First Judge of Manchester Ct Town Courtand Bowers School was named after him.
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