Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Bowman, Donald Scott May 2, 1878 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

DONALD SCOTT BOWMAN, Industrial Director. A program of social welfare work on 
the sugar plantations of Hawaii which has attracted world-wide attention by 
its remarkable scope and the beneficial results obtained, has been laid out 
and largely executed by Donald S. Bowman, director of the industrial service 
bureau of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association. He has been in public 
service for many years as a hygienist and sanitation expert.
  Born in Bucyrus, O., May 2, 1878, the son of William Moffett and Sally 
(Hamilton) Bowman, and a descendant of Simon Bowman, who settled in Maryland 
in 1640, Mr. Bowman was educated in the public schools of Bucyrus and Boston 
and completed his education in various colleges where he specialized in 
hygiene and sanitation.
  From 1901 to 1919 Mr. Bowman was chief sanitary inspector for the Island of 
Hawaii. He was in the army during the World War period, retiring from service 
as a lieutenant colonel of the First Hawaiian Infantry. He was post commander 
at Fort Shafter.
  In 1919 Mr. Bowman accepted his present position. He has held many public 
commissions during his residence in Hawaii. He was appointed by the governor 
as a delegate to the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography in 
Washington, D.C., in 1912, and in 1911 and again in 1916 attended as a 
delegate the conference of state and territorial health officers at the 
national capital. For four years he was chairman of the Board of Park 
Commissioners for the county of Hawaii, and from 1915 to 1919 served as 
secretary of the Board of Trustees of Hilo Hospital. He was also a member of 
the Board of Trustees of Kona Hospital and Kohala Hospital and a trustee of 
the Hilo Board of Trade.
  Mr. Bowman married Elizabeth K. Yates, daughter of William J. Yates of Kona, 
Hawaii, and the couple have ten children, Clifford H., Donald Scott, Jr., 
Maile M., Nina H., Wright P., J. Pierre, F. Moffett, Donna E., Waldo Lani P., 
and Kent Hamilton Bowman.


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Died March 1957

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