Ancestry of
Bob Taft

67th Governor of Ohio

Lloyd Wheaton Bowers

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• • Great-grandfather of Bob Taft — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 10 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Dwight Bowers 
  • Mother:
  • Martha Wheaton Dowd   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Mar 1859 
  • Birth Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 9 Sep 1910 
  • Death Location:
  • Hotel Touraine, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Miner Cemetery, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Louise Bennett Wilson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Sep 1887 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Winona, Winona Co., Minnesota 
  • Child:

  Martha Wheaton Bowers (Ahnentafel No:5 )

  • Notes: 

  • United States Solicitor-General

• Sources for Lloyd Wheaton Bowers

  • ¹ Encyclopedia of Biography of Minnesota, Vol. 1, Chicago: The Century Publishing and Engraving Company (1900), 171.
  • 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 Lloyd Bowers.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Springfield, Vol. 123, p. 354, Birth record for Lloyd W Bowers.
  • ⁵ Minnesota, U.S., Marriages Index, 1849-1950, Marriage record for Lloyd W Bowers and Louise B Wilson.
  • ⁶ The Journal Herald (Dayton, Ohio), 03 OCT 1958, p. 1, Obituary for daughter Martha Bowers Taft.
  • ⁷ Frost, Thomas G. and Edward L. Frost. M.D., The Frost Family in England and America: With Special Reference to Edmund Frost and Some of His Descendants, Buffalo: Russell Printing Company (1909), 131.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 56.