Sherman Phillip Bowers (1889 - 1962)

Born 16 Sep 1889 in Frederick County, Maryland, United States

Biography

Son of Eli David Bowers and Lillie Belle Weddle.

Children:

1. Nancy (1926–2008) - m. Hugh Benjamin Tresselt
2. Alice Virginia (1932–2012) - m. John Thomas Jenkins

From Find a Grave:

Mr. Sherman Philip Bowers, 73, one of Frederick's best known attorneys, died at Frederick Memorial Hospital.

Mr. Bowers had been a practicing attorney in this city for 45 years. He was elected State's Attorney for the county in 1934 and had also served as a trial magistrate.

He graduated from Walkersville High School in 1909. Mr. Bowers was an active Democrat.

In 1912, while working for the government in Washington, DC, he entered the National Law University and completed the full course by studying at night. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in law in 1915. He was admitted to the bars in Washington, DC and Maryland in 1915, and was admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1920.

He began practicing law in Washington, DC, but moved his office to this city in 1916.

He was a veteran of World War I, served in France, and was discharged in 1915.

In 1924, he began to serve a 3-year term as one of three justices of the peace and police judge for Frederick city and county by appointment of the Governor.

He was a member of the Methodist Protestant church of Lewistown.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M327-TDT : accessed 1 December 2018), Sherman D Bowers in household of Eli D Bowers, Election District 20, Lewistown, Frederick, Maryland, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 33, sheet 11B, family 231, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,622.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2FR-8J8 : accessed 1 December 2018), Sherman P Bowers in household of Eli D Bowers, Lewistown, Frederick, Maryland, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 78, sheet 11A, family 225, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 565; FHL microfilm 1,374,578.
• "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZ84-BMB : 13 March 2018), Sherman P Bowers, 1917-1918; citing Frederick County no 2, Maryland, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,684,370.
• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6QG-VFC : accessed 1 December 2018), Sherman P Bowers in household of Eli D Bowers, Lewistown, Frederick, Maryland, United States; citing ED 88, sheet 1A, line 3, family 1, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 673; FHL microfilm 1,820,673.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X34N-24Z : accessed 1 December 2018), Sherman P Bower, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 4, sheet 18B, line 73, family 433, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 874; FHL microfilm 2,340,609.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7FW-T28 : 16 March 2018), Sherman Bowers, Frederick, Election District 2, Frederick, Maryland, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 11-4, sheet 5B, line 75, family 104, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1548.
• "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F3X2-TWG : 9 March 2018), Sherman Philip Bowers, 1942; citing NARA microfilm publication M1936, M1937, M1939, M1951, M1962, M1964, M1986, M2090, and M2097 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• Find A Grave: Memorial #51203446