Born 1836, Died, 1900
Married: Hannah Marie Flowers
Samuel S. Bowers, a son of cabinet maker Samuel Bowers Sr., was born on a farm near the village of Berlin in 1836. Samuel Jr. received his medical degree from the University of New York in 1856. He, briefly, set up a practice in Plattsville. But in 1858 he moved to Waterloo where he established an office in the home of John Hoffman on King St. S. He married Hannah Flowers but they didn’t stay long in Waterloo. In 1860 they to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. There Samuel became the manager of the Lamartine Peat Company. After two years in this business, he decided to return to the practice of medicine in the same town. On his death in 1900, the local paper observed that “Fond du Lac has had few more popular citizens and the respect in which he was held was well-merited.”
Sources:
1. A.D Campbell MD, Physicians of Note and Notoriety, Waterloo Historical Society, Volume 80, 1992.
2. Dr Alexander D. Campbell "Doctors in Waterloo, 1852-1925".
Dr. Samuel Sowers Bowers Biography
Description
- Creator
- Little, Ellis, Author
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Articles
- Description
- This is a handwritten biography of Dr. Samuel Sowers Bowers from the Ellis Little Papers. This biography has been transcribed exactly as written. Ellis Little was a local historian, who was the principal of Elizabeth Ziegler Public School.On his retirement, he invested much of his time in researching and writing about Waterloo's history. The Ellis Little Papers consist of extensive notes, papers and historical works.
- Notes
- To see the original document please visit the Ellis Little Local History Room at the Main Branch of the Waterloo Public Library
- Date Of Event
- 1836-1900
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Bowers, Samuel ; Flowers, Hannah ; Bowers, Hannah ; Hoffman, John
- Corporate Name(s)
- Lamartine Peat Company
- Local identifier
- ELP 51.21 and ELP 63.41.18
- Collection
- Ellis Little Papers: Men and Women of Our Past
- Language of Item
- English
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- Uses other than research or private study require the permission of the rightsholder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Location of Original
- Ellis Little Papers
- Contact
- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
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