The Hospital Showdown
The Hospital Showdown Editor's Note: In March 2004, then U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft was rushed to a Washington, D.C. hospital for emergency gallbladder surgery. During his incapacitation, James Comey, then Deputy Attorney General, became Acting Attorney General. As [...]
The Hart Family
My earliest recollection of having Hart family cousins came from my mother mentioning James Austin Hart to me. he was then the Dean of the DePaul University business school in Chicago.
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 [...]
Cathy Parish Skura Remembers her Parents’ Era in Momence, Illinois
Editor's Note: Cathy Parish Skura may have left Momence to live elsewhere as an adult, but she didn't leave fond memories behind. The Paris Bank, founded in 1914, was private until it became state-chartered in the 1920s as Parish [...]
The Families Vol. 2 Website Launches
November 29, 2020 Well over 50 people joined the Zoom launch meeting yesterday for The Families: Vol. 2 website. They came from the West Coast, from France and from all points in between. The festivities began with a meet [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Augustine & Julia Bowe Family Tree
Julie Anne Bowe (Thompson) Trees John Edward Bowe Trees Editor's Note: These Bowe Family Trees are drawn from the genealogy volume Descendants of Anthony Canavan and Ann Hughes. I recently compiled this history based on the research done [...]
Meyer Family Tree
Editor's Note: It's a little bit like Tinker to Evers to Chance. Anthony Canavan's Daughter Margaret Elizabeth Canavan Marries into the Casey Family, which Marries into the Lynch Family, which marries into the Meyer Family. Margaret Elizabeth Canavan was [...]
