2021 The Thompson Chronicles: Don Thompson Talks to Rob Bowe
2021 Don Thompson Talks about the Thompson Family and the Bowes Editor's Note: In the complete 38-minute interview above, Don Thompson answers questions posed by Rob Bowe about Don's Canadian-born parents, Dr. Willard Owen Thompson and Dr. Phebe Kirsten [...]
Julia Bowe, 85, A Savior of Poetry Magazine
Savior of Poetry Magazine In her Chicago Tribune Obituary, the headline writer focused on Julia Lecour Bowe's central role in the survival of Poetry Magazine. This was was worthy mission because Poetry Magazine in the first decade after its [...]
1988 Judge John E. Bowe Presiding
In this audio recording, Terrence Hake, one of the principal investigators in the Operation Greylord investigation into Chicago court corruption, recalls his welcome appearance before Judge John Bowe in 1990.
Mary Gwinn Bowe Photos (1901-1979)
Mary Gwinn Bowe Photos As happened not infrequently in those days, when Mary Gwinn Bowe entered the world in Baltimore, Maryland in 1901, her mother, Mary Roche Gwinn, left it. Her father, Richard Gwinn, Jr. immediately turned to his [...]
1935: The Parishes & Bowes in Palos Park
Editor’s Note: The still picture above was taken in Palos Park, Illinois by my mother Mary Gwinn Bowe in 1935. It shows my father, William John Bowe, Sr., with his arms around his mother, Ellen Canavan Bowe and her sister, Catherine Canavan Parish. Also present is [...]
2021 The Skura Family
Editor's Note: In the summer of 1976, I was visiting my mother Mary Gwinn Bowe at her apartment when Ova Parish dropped by.
2021 The Parish Families
The first thing to know about the Parish families over the generations is that many of the males have William as a first name. Many others share the name Varnum or Anthony. Of those named William, about half have [...]
1981 Julie Anne Bowe Thompson (1931-1981)
Julie Anne Bowe Thompson was the daughter of Augustine Joseph Bowe and Julia Leonie Lecour Bowe. She was born in 1931, three years after her only sibling John Edward Bowe was born. As a young child she often navigated her Chicago block with John in a stroller he had recently outgrown.
