Bio of STOWELL, Frederick Moody, Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

Vol III, pg 621-622
F. M. STOWELL (Frederick Moody Stowell)
Frederick Moody Stowell is a Minneapolitan of magnetic and forceful personality,
widely known through his farsightedness and executive ability in building and
acquiring the extensive textile businesses of Munsingwear, Inc., namely, the
underwear business of The Munsingwear Corporation of Minneapolis, and the
hosiery business of Wayne Knitting Mills of Fort Wayne, Indiana, the two
subsidiary companies. Mr. Stowell is president and director of all three
corporations and is also treasurer and director of an independent textile
manufacturing company, the Vassar Swiss Underwear Com­pany of Chicago.
Mr. Stowell was born in Holden, Massachusetts. His father was the Rev. Frederick
Manning Stowell of Boston, and his mother Lucy Ann (Hubbard) Prouty Stowell,
both descendants of old New England stock.
Mr. Stowell was educated in the public schools of Massachusetts and acquired his
first business training when, as a boy, he served an apprenticeship, so to
speak, with The Dana Hardware Company, a well known wholesale hardware firm in
Boston. His work took him to all parts of Boston and was such as to develop in
him a keen power of observation and a retentive memory. The, then, rather
confined New England method of doing business was, however, not in accord with
his broadening viewpoint, nor with his ambitions. Partly in the hope of a wider
opportunity as indicated by the oft quoted advice of Horace Greeley, and partly
because of a sister then teaching school in Minneapolis, he decided to "Go
West," and in 1889 came to St. Paul. After a short period of employment with
Graves and Vinton Co., of St. Paul, he heard of a minor opening with the small
and struggling Northwestern Knitting Company of Minneapolis, manufacturers of
Munsing underwear, now The Munsingwear Corporation. He secured the position and
on the third of February, 1890, began in a humble way with that company, a
period of service which was to last for more than a third of a century, and
which is now (1923) in full and major swing.
The history of Mr. Stowell during the past thirty-three years is so closely
identified with that of the institution to which he has devoted his time and his
energy that it can best be understood by referring to the history of The
Munsingwear Corporation, which will be found elsewhere in this work. Mr. Stowell
early became a stockholder and was elected a director in 1896 and secretary in
1898, and rose through the successive positions of general office and stock room
assistant, assistant superintendent, superintendent and secretary, to the
presi­dency, to which he was elected upon the death of Clinton Morrison in 1913.
For many years before becoming president, in addition to his positions of
director and secretary, he was directly responsible for all manufacturing
operations and for all purchases! and largely responsible for the shaping of the
company's policies. The company during this period passed through a long stage
of uncertainty and of tribulation into com­mercial and financial success and
grew from an unimportant and inconspicuous venture into a great national
institution, dominant in the industry. And this year (1923) the business, under
Mr. Stowel’s direction, culminated in the acquisition of another long and well
established textile business of allied nature-the hosiery plant and business of
Wayne Knitting Mills of Fort Wayne, Indiana-and in the incorporation of a new
holding company, Munsingwear, Inc., to own them both, as referred to in the
opening paragraph hereof.
Mr. Stowell was married in 1893 to Sara Morris, daughter of James Robert and
Sara (Price) Morris of Racine, Wisconsin. They have two children: A son,
Frederick Morris Stowell, who is purchasing agent of The Munsingwear
Corporation; and a daughter, Mrs. Eleanor Stowell Hibbard of Los Angeles,
California.
Mr. Stowell is a director of the Northwestern National Bank of Minneapolis. He
is a Knight Templar, a member of the Mystic Shrine, a member of the Minneapolis
Club, the Minikahda Club, the Minneapolis Athletic Club and the Lafayette Club
of Minneapolis, the Chicago Athletic Association, the Old Colony Club, the
Midwick Country Club of Los Angeles, California, and the Annandale Golf Club of
Pasadena, California.