About Henry L. Bowles
Lived 1866 – 1932 (aged 66). Henry L. Bowles was an American politician and restaurateur.
Henry Leland Bowles (January 6, 1866 – May 17, 1932) was an American politician who served as a United States representative from Massachusetts.
Biography Bowles was born in Athens, Vermont on January 6, 1866. He attended the district schools at Kendricks Corner and Vermont Academy. At the age of eighteen, he moved to Osage, Iowa and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He later moved to California, where for four years he worked as lumberjack, rancher, and farmer.
Bowles returned east and settled in Massachusetts, working at various businesses in Waltham, Salem and Lynn. He was a trustee of the Vermont Academy, and moved to Springfield in 1898, where he operated a chain of restaurants.
He married Edna Howard in December 1908.
He died in Springfield May 17, 1932 and was interred in Springfield Cemetery.
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American politician (1866–1932)
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Henry L. Bowles was born on 6 January 1866 in Athens.
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Henry L. Bowles died on 17 May 1932 in Springfield.
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Henry L. Bowles was a politician and restaurateur.
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Henry L. Bowles was American.
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