Levi Bowman, 1906-1956

I have been hearing about Bowman's Landing for years, so this obituary caught my eye:


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Hobart Gazette, 2 Aug. 1956.

I was surprised to read that Levi Bowman had been running the business for only about six years when he died. From the way people talk about it, I thought it had been operating for a quarter-century, at least.

I've been too busy this past week to collect my thoughts, much less do any research, so I'm just slapping this up as a low-effort post — well, I did do enough research to satisfy my own curiosity as to whether Levi was related to the Bowmans who've been showing up in the "South of Deepriver" columns I used to post, and I found that indeed he was. Levi himself is mentioned in a 1920 column, and the S.E. Bowman mentioned in, for instance, a 1922 column was his father, Samuel Edward.

I really ought to dig up more information about the Bowman family, and I will … someday. But not today.