Ancestry of
Robert Alphonso Taft

(1917–1993)

Samuel Dwight Bowers

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• • Great-grandfather of Robert Alphonso Taft — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 12 
  • Father:
  • William Bowers 
  • Mother:
  • Almira Bailey   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 Aug 1825 
  • Birth Location:
  • Berlin, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Oct 1899 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Miner Cemetery, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Martha Wheaton Dowd
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Nov 1852 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Lloyd Wheaton Bowers (Ahnentafel No:6 )

• Sources for Samuel Dwight Bowers

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Hartford, p. 98, Marriage record for S. Dwight Bowers and Martha W. Dowd.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/07/2019).
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Boston, Vol. 1910/17, p. 197, Death certificate for son Lloyd Bowers.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Springfield, Vol. 123, p. 354, Birth record for son Lloyd W Bowers.
  • ⁵ Dowd, Rev. W. W., The Descendants of Henry Doude, Who Came From England in 1639, Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1885), 31.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 56.