Bowen, Nebraska

Last updated
Bowen, Nebraska
Country Flag of the United States.svg  United States
State Flag of Nebraska.svg  Nebraska
County Washington

Bowen is a ghost town in Washington County, Nebraska, United States. [1]

History

Bowen was platted in 1886. It was named for John S. Bowen, a pioneer settler. [2]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Woodstock, Connecticut</span> Town in Connecticut, United States

Woodstock is a town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States. The town is part of the Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region. The population was 8,221 at the 2020 census.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen</span> English interior designer and television personality

Laurence Roderick Llewelyn-Bowen is an English interior designer and television personality best known for appearing on the BBC programme Changing Rooms.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bowen, Queensland</span> Town in Queensland, Australia

Bowen is a coastal town and locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Bowen had a population of 11,205 people.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Julie Bowen</span> American actress (born 1970)

Julie Bowen is an American actress. She is best known for starring as Claire Dunphy in the ABC sitcom Modern Family (2009–2020), for which she received widespread critical acclaim. She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2011 and 2012.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Henry B. Anthony</span> United States journalist and politician

Henry Bowen Anthony was a United States newspaperman and political figure. He served as editor and was later part owner of the Providence Journal. He was the 21st Governor of Rhode Island, serving between 1849 and 1851 as a member of the Whig Party. Near the end of the 1850s, he was elected to the Senate by the Rhode Island Legislature and was re-elected 4 times. He would be twice elected to the Senate's highest post as President pro tempore during the Grant administration, and served until his death in 1884.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Otis Bowen</span> American politician (1918–2013)

Otis Ray Bowen was an American politician and physician who served as the 44th Governor of Indiana from 1973 to 1981 and as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Cabinet of President Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1989.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Norman L. Bowen</span> Canadian geologist

Norman Levi Bowen FRS was a Canadian geologist. Bowen "revolutionized experimental petrology and our understanding of mineral crystallization". Beginning geology students are familiar with Bowen's reaction series depicting how different minerals crystallize under varying pressures and temperatures."

Bowen v. Roy, 476 U.S. 693 (1986), was a United States Supreme Court case which ruled that a government program requiring the use of a social security number did not violate the first amendment.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thomas M. Bowen</span> American judge (1835–1906)

Thomas Mead Bowen was a state legislator in Iowa and Colorado, a Union Army officer during the American Civil War, a justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, briefly the Governor of Idaho Territory, an elected judge in Colorado and a United States senator from Colorado.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jimmy Bowen</span> American singer-songwriter

James Albert Bowen is an American record producer and former rockabilly singer. Bowen brought Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood together, and introduced Sinatra to Mel Tillis for their album, Mel & Nancy.

Michael Bowen is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Nicolas Cage's romantic rival, Tommy, in the cult classic Valley Girl (1983), Danny Pickett on the ABC series Lost, and Jack Welker on the AMC series Breaking Bad.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stephen Bowen (astronaut)</span> American astronaut

Stephen Gerard"Steve"Bowen is a United States Navy submariner and a NASA astronaut; he was the second submariner to travel into space. Bowen has been on four spaceflights, the first three of which were Space Shuttle missions to the International Space Station. His first mission, STS-126, took place in November 2008, and his second was STS-132 in May 2010. His third was STS-133 in February 2011, and his fourth was SpaceX Crew-6 in March 2023.

USS <i>Bowen</i>

USS Bowen (DE-1079/FF-1079) was a Knox-class frigate of the United States Navy. She was named for Vice Admiral Harold G. Bowen, Sr. (1883–1965), former chief of the Naval Research Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research, who was deceased at the time of her commissioning. Admiral Bowen's son and namesake, Harold G. Bowen, Jr., who also retired as a vice admiral, presided over the U.S. Navy's 1969 inquiry into the Pueblo incident.

Silentlambs is a United States–based non-profit organization, founded by William Bowen, that assists victims of child sexual abuse experienced within the religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses. Silentlambs' stated purpose is to help educate the public and Jehovah's Witnesses about child sexual abuse, and to assist abuse survivors who have been molested as children and silenced from speaking out or seeking proper assistance as directed by religious authority. The group states that it has received reports from more than 5000 Jehovah's Witnesses contending that the church mishandled cases of child sexual abuse.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Annapolis, Indiana</span> Unincorporated community in Indiana, United States

Annapolis is an unincorporated community in Penn Township, Parke County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kensington Pride</span> Mango cultivar

The 'Kensington Pride' mango is a named commercial mango cultivar that originated in Australia. It is sometimes called the KP, Bowen or Bowen special. It is Australia's most popular mango, accounting for over 80% of the country's annual commercial mango market. It is considered to have a distinctive flavour and aroma when compared with the Florida-bred cultivars grown by most mango-exporting countries.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bowen High School (Chicago)</span> School in Chicago, Illinois, United States

James H. Bowen High School is a public four-year high school located in the South Chicago neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Bowen is operated by the Chicago Public Schools district. From 1993 until 2011, Bowen was divided into four smaller schools. Today, the smaller schools have been re-consolidated back into one school.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bowen River (Queensland)</span> River in Queensland, Australia

The Bowen River is a river in North Queensland, Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bowen, Las Animas County, Colorado</span> Ghost town

Bowen is an extinct town located in Las Animas County, Colorado, United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jarrod Bowen</span> English footballer (born 1996)

Jarrod Bowen is an English professional footballer who plays as a right winger or forward for Premier League club West Ham United and the England national team. He has previously played for Hereford United and Hull City.

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bowen, Nebraskadead link
  2. History of the origin of the place names in nine Northwestern states. 1908. p. 45.