Genesee-Saint Clair-Calhoun County MI Archives Biographies.....Dowker, Harry F. 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

HARRY F. DOWKER. The genial agent for the Chicago & Grand Trunk Railroad and he
who attends to all the business of the road at Flint, is the gentleman whose
name appears above. He was born at Park Hill, Middlesex County, Canada, June 2,
1856, and is a son of William and Nancy (Fairbanks) Dowker, the former a native
of Yorkshire, England, and the latter of New York State. William Dowker came to
America when young, his parents making the change and settling at Kingston,
Canada, where they were farmers. In 1876 he came to Tuscola County and located
at Fair Grove and is now a prominent farmer of that locality.

  Mr. Dowker is one of a family of nine children, seven of these are living at
the present time and our subject is the youngest. He was reared in Canada until
fourteen years of age. He learned telegraphy at that time. While in Park Hill he
was a clerk in the post-office and when sixteen years of age was appointed night
operator for the Grand Trunk Road in Smith's Creek, Mich., and the next year
became the agent at Emmet, for the Chicago & Lake Huron, but now the Chicago &
Grand Trunk Railroad. He held this position for three and a half years and
afterward became station agent at Copack and then went to Stillwell, Ind., after
which he was train dispatcher at Battle Creek for one year, thence went to
Valparaiso as agent for four years.

  In 1886 our subject came to Flint, there being a large business doing here
between Port Huron and Chicago. Twenty-three men are in the employ under him. He
was married in London, Canada, September 17, 1878, to Miss Amy Tremaine, who was
born in Quebec, Canada, and is a daughter of J. E. Tremaine, of Cornwall,
England, and who was an employe of the Grand Trunk Road. Mr. Dowker is a Mason,
belonging to the Valparaiso Lodge; he is also a Forester. Both he and his wife
belong to the Episcopal Church, while politically he is a Republican of the most
pronounced type.


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Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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