Ecuadorian Brandy: Its Origin & the Origin of Another Precious Commodity
Editor's Note: When Tony Bowe interviewed me about his grandfather Gus Bowe, I told him that after a meal at my uncle Gus and aunt Julia's apartment, we would usually adjourn back to the living room. There Gus would make [...]
Augustine Joseph Bowe Materials
On February 11, 1961 in City Hall Augustine J. Bowe is congratulated by Mayor Richard J. Daley and Richard Nelson as he is inaugurated as Chief Justice of the Municipal Court     Sen Paul [...]
Julia Lecour Bowe Materials
2012-09-12 Transmittal of Julia and Gus to the Poetry Foundation (by William John Bowe, Jr.) 2011 Preface to Julia & Gus, by William John Bowe, Jr. 2011 Julia & Gus Acknowledgements, Charles Augustine Bowe 2011 Julia & [...]
Julia Lecour Bowe’s Preface to The Generations (1959)
Preface to The Generations (1959) by Julia Lecour Bowe What kind of a country was it that Paulin Pallissard came to in 1855? It was prairie land at the foot of Lake Michigan in a country along the Kankakee [...]
Lecour Family Tree
Editor’s Note: Our progenitor Anthony Canavan, Sr. was born in Ireland in 1822 to his namesake father Anthony Canavan and his mother Catherine (Kitty) Kirby. Because the son Anthony Canavan, Sr. and his wife Ann Hughes emigrated to the U.S., [...]
The Generations
Editor's Note: In 1959 my aunt Julia Lecour Bowe published The Generations, a scholarly history of her French Pallissard ancestors. She recorded their French past and the American future they made for themselves in the 1850s when some of [...]
2011 Preface of William John Bowe Jr. to Julia & Gus
Preface I was delighted when Charley Bowe told me that he had run across a typewritten memoir authored by his paternal grandmother, Julia Lecour Bowe. I was even more delighted when he asked me to write a preface to [...]
2011 Acknowledgements of Charles Bowe in Julia and Gus, the Memoirs of Julia Bowe
Acknowledgements of Charles Bowe in Julia & Gus, Julia Lecour Bowe’s Memoirs Acknowledgements I am indebted to many people, without whom telling this story would have been impossible. Without a doubt, Julia Bowe is the essential progenitor. Julia wrote [...]
John Edward Bowe and Katherine Pargellis Tree
Editor's Note: John Edward Bowe was born December 15, 1929, in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of Augustine Joseph Bowe and Julia Leonie Lecour. John Edward married Katherine Pargellis on Saturday, August 6, 1955, in Cape Porpoise, ME. [...]
