Frank Bowman Fowler Sr.

  General Notes:

The 1910 Federal Census for Brookhaven, Suffolk Co., New York, District 1352, page 198A, dated April 16, 1910 records Frank B. Fowler (7 - NY) living with his parents Dr. P Van Benschoten Fowler (44 - NY/NY/NY) and Mathilda Fowler (40 - PA/PA/Ireland) and siblings Charles S. (8), Margaret D. (5), and Elizabeth D. (2 5/12) living on South Country Road. Dr. Fowler is a Physician in Home Practice.

The 1920 Federal Census for Philadelphia, PA, District 989, page 183B, dated January 7, 1920 records Frank B. Fowler (16 - NY) living with his widowed mother Matilda D. Fowler (50 - PA/PA/Ireland) and siblings Margaret D. Fowler (15 - NY) and Elizabeth D. Fowler (12) at 2022 Fitzwater Street. Matilda is a Grammer School Teacher. Also in this household is Matilda's wodpwed mother, Margaret B. Donaghy (82) and her sisters Martha B. Donaghy (28) and Emily Donaghy (41).

The 1930 Federal Census for Philadelphia, PA, District 537, page 179A, dated April 10, 1930 records Frank Fowler (26 - NY) living with his widowed mother Matilda Fowler (60 - PA/PA/Dublin) and sister Elizabeth Fowler (22) at 1108 46th Street. Matilda is a Public School Teacher, Frank is a Clerk at the Railroad, and Elizabeth is a Hairdresser at a Beauty Parlor.

See general notes on his wife for 1940 census facts.

Frank married Gertrude Wortham Swain, daughter of Richard Clyde Swain and Sallie Gertrude Blackwell, on 6 Sep 1931 in Smithville, Brunswick County, North Carolina. (Gertrude Wortham Swain was born on 26 Aug 1909 in Brunswick Co., NC, died on 21 Sep 2004 in Fort Ashby, Mineral Co., West Virginia and was buried in Glenwood Memorial Gardens, Broomall, Pennsylvania.)