Carroll County IN Archives Military Records.....Bowman, Charles Grimes 
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CHARLES GRIMES BOWMAN, Commodore, U. S. N.

Highest ranking Naval Officer from Indiana, who died while in service during the
World War.

   Charles Grimes Bowman; son of John Milton and Elizabeth Barnett Bowman; born
October 15, 1848, Delphi, Ind. Graduated from U. S. Naval Academy in the class of
1869. Married Josephine McFarlane of Delphi, February 24, 1876. Served successively
on the Sabine, Richmond, Constellation, Yantic, and Hartford, from 1869-1876. Naval
Academy, 1876-9; on the Adams, 1879-82; Naval Observatory, 1882-6; on the Atlanta
and the Boston, 1886-9; Naval Academy, 1889-93; Executive officer Marblehead,
1894-7; Equipment officer Mare Island, 1897-1900; Commander of Castine, 1900-1; Don
Juan de Austria, 1901-2; Inspector of 6th light house district, 1902-3; Navy Yard,
League Island, Penn., 1903-4; Equipment officer Navy Yard, New York, 1904-5; Captain
of Navy Yard, Pensacola, Fla., 1905-6; Commander of the Rhode Island, 1906-7.
Retired at own request, as Commodore, June 30, 1907.

   Following the declaration of war by the United States against Germany, April 6,
1917, he again offered his services. Accepted; stationed in Milwaukee, Wis., as
Inspector. Died of acute bronchitis October 5, 1918, Milwaukee. Buried in Masonic
Cemetery, Delphi, Ind. Survived by widow, Josephine McFarlane Bowman, Delphi, Ind.


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Indiana World War Records
GOLD STAR HONOR ROLL
A Record of Indiana Men and Women who died in the service of the United States and
the Allied Nations in the World War
1914 — 1918

PUBLISHED BY THE 
INDIANA HISTORICAL COMMISSION
INDIANAPOLIS
1921

FORT WAYNE PRINTING COMPANY
CONTRACTORS FOR STATE PRINTING AND BINDING
1921


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