Charles Francis Bowen

Background

Bowen, Charles Francis was born on January 13, 1889 in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Charles Henry and Josephine Bernardine (Daley) Bowen.

Education

Student Valparaiso (Indiana) University, 1908-1909. Boston University Law School, Massachusetts, 1914-1915.

Career

Enlisted as private National Guard of New Hampshire (U.S.), December 1915. Provisional Second lieutenant, Resident Advisor, C.A.C., 1915-1916. Regimental adjt., 1st Army Headquarters Regiment, American Expeditionary Force, 1917.

Secretary General Staff, 32d Division, France and Germany, 1918-1919.

Director State Planning and Development Commission, New Hampshire (U.S.), 1934-1936. Secretary to governor New Hampshire (U.S.), 1937-1939.

Brigadier general, United States Army, 1940-1947. Major general National Guard, New Hampshire (U.S.), from 1951.

State director Selective Service, New Hampshire, 1940-1947.

Adjutant general New Hampshire, 1939-1954. Vice president Mount Washington Observatory from 1942.

Achievements

• Charles Francis Bowen has been listed as a noteworthy novelist. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member State Common for Promotion of the Wealth and Income of the People of New Hampshire (U.S.) Club: Rotary (Manchester, New Hampshire (U.S.)).

Connections

Married Helen Elizabeth Rawlins, September 2, 1921.

Father:

Charles Henry Bowen

Mother:

Josephine Bernardine (Daley) Bowen

Spouse:

Helen Elizabeth Rawlins