Featured Documents
FEATURED DOCUMENTS 2026-07-22 About Vintage Chicago, A Cliff Dweller's History of Chicago (Description of the interactive map and narrative history A Cliff Dweller's History of Chicago) 2024-07-28 The Fantastic Life of Bill Bowe (Transcript of Chicago Tribune columnist [...]
Writings & Clippings
Remarks, Reports, Clippings & Correspondence 2024-01-15 Rockets & Riots - (William J. Bowe, Jr. Looks Back at a Tumultuous Time) 2021-05-02 Hamlin Garland - "Veritist" Writer of the Middle Borders by Laura Ferri (Introduction by William J. [...]
The Impossible Dream – Renaming the Reid Murdoch Building
Unfortunately I got carried away at the end and proposed that the name of the Reid Murdoch Building be changed to the Bowe Building. From the laughter and smirks on the faces of my kin, I could see they hadn’t been persuaded. That night I cried myself to sleep, knowing the Bowe Building would never come to be.
27 The Cliff Notes Version of How We’re All Related
27 The Cliff Notes Version of How We're All Related Well, there you have it. That’s the Cliff Notes version of how this Canavan group is all related. If you want the Encyclopaedia Britannica length version, you got [...]
25 The Gwinn Sisters (Bowe, Casey, Danielak & Riboud)
25 The Gwinn Sisters (Bowe, Casey, Danielak & Riboud) We’re in the home stretch now folks, as we follow the Gwinn sisters into the Casey, Bowe and Riboud families. You see my mother Mary and the four Gwinn [...]
24 Walter Heffron I, Patriarch
24 Walter Heffron I, Patriarch We salute the Heffron patriarch, Walter Heffron I. At age 98, and with a virus still afoot, he couldn’t be with us in person, but we know he is with us in spirit. [...]
23 Patricia Lynch and Walter Heffron I (Cain, Turner, Romano & Reyes)
23 Patricia Lynch and Walter Heffron I (Cain, Turner, Romano and Reyes) Which brings us to Catherine Casey Lynch’s third child, Patricia Lynch Heffron. Her children with Walter Heffron brought along the Romano, Reyes, Turner and Cain family [...]
21 Francis Joseph Lynch & Susan Alling Family
21 Francis Joseph Lynch & Susan Alling Family The first child born to Patrick and Catherine Casey Lynch was Francis Lynch. On the left is a picture of him taken during World War II standing with my parents [...]
2021-18 Catherine Collette Canavan & William Wallace Parish II
Catherine Collette Canavan & William Wallace Parish II The Parish family tree shows that Anthony Canavan and Ann Hughes’s daughter Catherine Canavan married William Wallace Parish II. They raised their family in Momence, Illinois. Their third of four [...]
