Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-17
LIVED IN PARIS, HAD
TRAVELLED IN MA ~ LANDS
Was at Bahia on Business For Paris
Firm, But Had Completed His Work
When Strieken-had Most Interest
ing Career in Work With Expeditions
Buried at Bahia.


died Saturday. The news of his death,
that will shock his boyhood friends
here and in Tama and acquaintance
he made in later years, came first to
his brother in law Albert L. Jackson.
of Tama. and then to his cousin Roy
R. Bradbury, OF this city. Death FOL
lowed a short sickness OF the dread
disease.
A few days earlier Mr.. Jackson re-
ceived a cablegrarn that Mr.. Bowen
had been stricken and a little later
came a message that he was so dan
gerously sick there was no hope To
the group Of business men including
old and new friends who met Mr..
Bowen al the Roy r. Bradbury home
last September, when he ,oid the
guests of France and the war, his I'M
timely death will be especially re-
gretted
Was on Way South Then.
At that time Mr.. Bowen was on his
way TO South America. He reached
Bahia about Jan. ! where hewas to
remain for few months looking after
business interests. He had completed
this work and was about ready 10 sail
for New York when he was taken sick
Mr.. Bowen. after as'sociating with
large enterprises in the east. includ
ing the Buffalo exposition. took up his
residence in Paris where ne had been
living for eighteen years. During that
time he often visited the United States
and usually came to Tama and this
city.
Was Born Near City.
Palmer L. Bowen was born on n
farm Just east OF the city May Is, 1876.
HIS parents were Mr.. and Mrs. Web
ster Bowen. His mQther died when he
was a small child and he was reared
by his sister, Mabel. afterwards Mrs.
Albert +. Jackson. Of Tama. and his
grandmother. Mrs \. H. Brock. He at
tended the high school here and
finished in the commercial department
After completing school he worked
in the law office of Binford & Shell
ing for two years then went to Chicago
where he was graduated from the Chi
cago Law school and was admitted to
practice. It was while he was in Chi
caEo that he became associated with
interests that We're later destined to
send him to distant parts of the world
and led TO his taking up his residence
in Paris
Took Exhibit to Paris.
In 1900 when he was only "a years Of
age, he went to the American French
exposition board under President
SchiH, as a secretary and proved so
efficient that he was sent TO Europe in
charge Of the exhibit. In the meantime
ne had acquired complete knowledge
OF French. The United states transport
Prairie was placed at his disposal and
ne took the exhibit, consisting Of sew
eral hundred tons. to Paris and super
Nised its installation and was made
resident director and captain OF the
American guards. Q
Inc next year he was drafted by W.
l. Buchannan, director general OF the
Buffalo exposition as his secretary and
the leading journals gave Mr.. Buchan-
nan and Bowen the credit Of being the
outstanding lGues in that exhibit.
Bowen had charge of the informant ton
bureau and the telephone and tele-
graph service at the exposition and
particularly at the time Of the assassi-
nation of President Mckinley was in
valua bic
Travelled Thru the Orient.
Later he went to the Pan American
congress In Central America as Pres
ident Buchannans secretary and
thence back to Europe with him when
Buchanan was made European Wis
iung superintendent of agencies of the
Now York Life Insurance Company.
Bowen was soon recalled to New York
by President Vanderlip OF the National
City Bank to enter it's foreign bond de-
rartment, because of his knowledge OF
European affairs, but he remained only
year when the call came to go back
to France where he desired to live. He
then accepted the confidential secre-
taryship to Ferdinand Blumenthal
president Of Blunienthal and Company
one of the largest commercial organi-
cations in the world.
In the meantime he was resident d.
rector III Paris and commissioner tc
France, Switzerland, Egypt, India and
Ceylon, and later to Turkey, for the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, st
Louis, and travelled the countries OF
Europe and the Orient in that capacity
Came to Tama to Register.
He had since travelled over the world
very much, visiting the most OF Europe
Asia. Africa and lately South America
often going into regions hitherto I'm.
visited by white men. This was par
ticularly true of the Thibetan country
where he was two years prior to the
famous Youngblood expedition.
His last visit to America was last
fall when he spent six weeks with his
brother in-law, A. E. Jackson, ant
family at Tama, where he came to reg.
lister for the military draft and re-
manned until lie went to South Amer.
lea. Late letters from Bahia indicat.
ed that his woEs in South America hat
been about completed, with splendid
success, and, his friends here expected
next to hear from him a. New York
He had acquired a competency and
expected to purchase villa In Pari:
and retire to the enjoyment OF life
there.
BodSABuried At Bahia.
Mr.. Bowen's immediate relative.
consist only of a brother Ralph Bowen
OF Cripple Creek, Colo, and the fami-
Nv OF Mr.. A. E. Jackson, at Tama- Mrs
Carrie o. Dentzer, Of Lake Bluffs, Ill.
is q cousin.
It ts interesting to know that Mr
Bowen was selected by Rodin, thu
famous French sculptor, to sit for
bust as representative OF "an Idea
American" Mr.. Jackson has a plaster
cast Of the bust. Mr.. Bswen's body pro.