Background
Bowen, Clarence Winthrop was born on May 22, 1852 in Brooklyn. Son of Henry Chandler and Lucy M. (Tappan) Bowen.
Bowen, Clarence Winthrop was born on May 22, 1852 in Brooklyn. Son of Henry Chandler and Lucy M. (Tappan) Bowen.
Brother of Herbert Wolcott B. Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1873, Master of Arts, 1876, Doctor of Philosophy, 1882, Doctor of Laws, William and Mary College, Virginia, 1918.
Of Honorary John Wentworth, of Chicago, January 28, 1892. Corresponding for The Independent in Europe in 1875. Interviewed Thomas Carlyle, and in 1883 interviewed King Alphonso XII, of Spain, the Duke of Veragua (a descendant of Columbus), and others, with reference to the 400th anniversary of the Discovery of America, which he was the first to agitate, resulting in the Chicago Exposition, 1893.
Public and proprietor The Independent (after his father’s death), 1896-1912.
Was secretary committee of arrangements for centennial of Washington’s Inauguration, 1889. A founder of Yale University Club, New Haven, 1880.
Of Wolf’s Head Society, Yale, 1883. Of Manhattan Congressional Church, New York, 1896.
Author: Boundary Disputes of Connecticut, 1882.
Woodstock, an Historical Sketch, 1887. Memorial of Centennial of Washington’s Inauguration, 1892. History of Woodstock, Connecticut, 1926.
Genealogies of Woodstock Families (6 volumes), 1930-1934.
Home: New York, New York, and Woodstock, Connecticut
Club, New Haven, 1880.
Married Roxana, daughter