U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Bowers, George Walter (1878-1943) --------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE: West Virginia Blue Book West Virginia Legislative Hand Book and Manual and Official Register, 1922 Compiled and edited by John T. Harris, Clerk of the Senate Tribune Printing Company, Charleston, West Virginia Page 98 BOWERS, GEORGE WALTER (Republican). Address: Mannington, West Virginia. Born in Wheeling September 6, 1878; son of Frank W. and Margart Bowers, both natives of Wheeling; educated in the public schools of that city and the Jersey City, New Jersey, High School; married Sara George, youngest daughter of Samuel and Eliza George, of Wellsburg; manufacturer; President and General Manager of Bowers Pottery Company, Mannington, manufacturers of plumber's earthenware; active in public affairs for years both in Ohio and Marion counties; elected to the Senate in 1920 from the Eleventh District, composed of the counties of Marion. Monongalia and Taylor, by a majority of 8,087 votes; hold-over Senator; committee assignments, sessions of 1921, were as follows: Enrolled Bills (Chairman), Privileges and Elections, Finance, Education, Counties and Municipal Corporations, Roads and Navigation, Banks and Corporations, Public Buildings and Humane Institutions, Forfeited and Unappropriated Lands, Public Library, Virginia Debt. --------------------------------------------------------------------- BIRTH-REGISTER, Ohio County, WV Page 51, Line 10 Geo. W. Bowers born Sept 6, 1878 son-of: Frank Bowers (butcher) & Maggie P. Bowers MARRIAGE-LICENSE, Brooke County WV, page 310 George W. Bowers (age 29) Sara George (age 27) were married Dec 12, 1907 in Wellsburg WV by W. J. Holmes, Minister of the Gospel DEATH-CERTIFICATE, Marion County WV, #14079 Full-name: George Walter Bowers Born: Sep 6, 1878 in Wheeling, WV Died: Oct 28, 1943 in Mannington, Marion, WV Wife: Sara George Bowers Occup: Manufacturer, Pottery Business Father: Frank W. Bowers, b. Wheeling WV Mother: Margarat B> Williams, b. Wheeling WV Cause-of-death: Cerebral Hemorrhage Burial: Greenwood Cemetery, Wheeling WV DEATH-CERTIFICATE, Marion County WV, Book 13, Page 217 Full-Name: Sara Bowers Born: Oct 31, 1880 in WV Died: Nov 4, 1969 in Marnnington, Marion, WV Marital-status: widow Father: Samuel George Mother: Eliza Kimberland Burial: Greenwood Cemetery, Wheeling WV ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Marion County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/marion/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------