Silas Bowker (April 26, 1769
Concord
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Meaning "agreement"
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,
Middlesex County, Massachusetts – October 14, 1834
Locke
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People
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,
Cayuga County, New York
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) was an American politician from
New York
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Life
He was the son of Silas Bowker (1739–1789) and Esther (Hobbs) Bowker (1739–1824). He married Amy Harding (1769–1843), and they had six children. His father Silas Bowker, was a revolutionary spy, who disguised as a Native American was captured by the British and was taken to Canada, where he escaped.
He was a member of the
New York State Assembly
The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature, with the New York State Senate being the upper house. There are 150 seats in the Assembly. Assembly members serve two-year terms without term limits.
The Assem ...
(Cayuga Co.) in
1814
Events January
* January 1 – War of the Sixth Coalition – The Royal Prussian Army led by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher crosses the Rhine.
* January 3
** War of the Sixth Coalition – Siege of Cattaro: French garrison s ...
and
1814–15.
He was a member of the
New York State Senate
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Partisan com ...
(7th D.) in
1823
Events January–March
* January 22 – By secret treaty signed at the Congress of Verona, the Quintuple Alliance gives France a mandate to invade Spain for the purpose of restoring Ferdinand VII (who has been captured by armed revolutio ...
; and again of the State Assembly (Cayuga Co.) in
1824
May 7: The almost completely deaf Beethoven premieres his Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) , Ninth Symphony
Events
January–March
* January 8 – After much controversy, Michael Faraday is finally elected as a member of the Royal Society, ...
.
He was buried at a cemetery in Locke, known as the Bowker Family or the Abbott Farm Cemetery.
Sources
''The New York Civil List''compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 125, 139, 188f and 200; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
External links
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1769 births
1834 deaths
People from Concord, Massachusetts
People from Cayuga County, New York
New York (state) state senators
Members of the New York State Assembly
New York (state) Democratic-Republicans