Harry Clyde Dowell, 18781930 (aged 51 years)

Name
Harry Clyde /Dowell/
Given names
Harry Clyde
Surname
Dowell
Birth
Unique identifier: 1A595370-C5A0-4C69-A7E1-1830BBDF3E9B
Record ID number: MH:IF22
Note: Veteran of the Spanish American War, Corporal Co. B 4th Illinois
20th President of the United States
James A Garfield
March 4, 1881 (aged 2 years)
21st President of the United States
Chester A Arthur
September 19, 1881 (aged 3 years)
Birth of a sister
1883 (aged 4 years)
22nd President of the United States
Grover Cleveland
March 4, 1885 (aged 6 years)
23rd President of the United States
Benjamin Harrison
March 4, 1889 (aged 10 years)
24th President of the United States
Grover Cleveland
March 4, 1893 (aged 14 years)
25th President of the United States
William McKinley
March 4, 1897 (aged 18 years)
Marriage
Unique identifier: 57E18D8F-9F3C-4DD7-933D-A4691C17DE01
Record ID number: MH:FF10
Death of a paternal grandfather
26th President of the United States
Theodore Roosevelt
September 14, 1901 (aged 23 years)
Birth of a son
Record ID number
Marriage
1909 (aged 30 years)
27th President of the United States
William Howard Taft
March 4, 1909 (aged 30 years)
28th President of the United States
Woodrow Wilson
March 4, 1913 (aged 34 years)
Death of a father
29th President of the United States
Warren G Harding
March 4, 1921 (aged 42 years)
30th President of the United States
Calvin Coolidge
August 2, 1923 (aged 44 years)
Birth of a grandson
Unique identifier: E8CF5BA2-24A2-44EC-B863-678983FD4B2C
Record ID number: MH:IF25
31st President of the United States
Herbert Hoover
March 4, 1929 (aged 50 years)
Death
Family with parents
father
18431918
Birth: June 23, 1843 26 28 Breckinridge County, Kentucy
Death: September 9, 1918
mother
Marriage Marriage
himself
Harry Clyde Dowell Headstone, Stark County, Illinois
18781930
Birth: August 26, 1878 35 21 Willow Hill, Jasper County, Illinois
Death: June 23, 1930Wyoming, Stark County, Illinois
5 years
younger sister
18831948
Birth: 1883 39 26
Death: 1948Sullivan County, IN
Family with Louise T Valkenhorst
himself
Harry Clyde Dowell Headstone, Stark County, Illinois
18781930
Birth: August 26, 1878 35 21 Willow Hill, Jasper County, Illinois
Death: June 23, 1930Wyoming, Stark County, Illinois
wife
18861969
Birth: September 30, 1886
Death: February 1969
Marriage MarriageNovember 22, 1900
11 months
son
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19011968
Birth: October 25, 1901 23 15
Death: September 1, 1968
Family with Emma Church
himself
Harry Clyde Dowell Headstone, Stark County, Illinois
18781930
Birth: August 26, 1878 35 21 Willow Hill, Jasper County, Illinois
Death: June 23, 1930Wyoming, Stark County, Illinois
wife
Marriage Marriage1909
Birth

Veteran of the Spanish American War, Corporal Co. B 4th Illinois

Note

Miscellaneous Military News for Jasper County, IL
(pre-WWI)

©Transcribed by Kim Torp, except where noted

Member of Co., B. Returns home from Springfield........
Roy Dancy, who went with Co. B 4th Infantry I.N.G. to Springfield returned home Monday morning, ill with pneumonia. He was accompanied home by Charley Burton, hospital nurse, who will return to Springfield next Saturday. Roy says he will return to the company as soon as he is able, which we hope will not be long. Newton Star May 11, 1898

Off for Camp Lincoln, July 11, 1902 (Contributed by Source #28)

Co. B, leaves for Springfield Tonight, Will be about a week at annual outing.

Company B, Fourth Regiment, Second Brigade, Illinois National Guard will leave Newton, tonight for the annual outing and drill exercises at Camp Lincoln, Springfield.

Our boys will be joined here by Co. D, of Robinson,the latter coming over on a special train. All will go thence via the Central to the camping grounds.

Officers and Men

Lyman Harris...................................................Captain
Robt. L. Powell..................................... 1st. Lieutenant
Wm. A. McKinnon................................ 2nd. Lieutenan

Sergeants

Merle M. Printz, John Q. Vanderhoof, John W. Honey,Jr. Joe Litzelman, Jr. , Chas. D. Fithian

Corporals

Mack McConaha, Osacr Lathrop, Paul Gregory, Emery Moore, John Reisner, H. Stark

Musicians

Noah Hubbard, William O. Miller

Privates

Eugene Arnold, Ben L. Bruner, Oriel Boggs,
Henry Bayse, Pearl Beeman, Louis Bowers,
Merritt Clark, Frank Dewhurst, Harry Dancy,
Arthur O. Dyson, Clyde Dowell, Otis F. Ellis,
G. Vern Fisher, Frank Genter, Clinton Gibson,
John A. Girhard, Seth S. Hussey, Chas. Hilderbrand,
Josiah Jourdan, Leon E. B. Jenkins, Eugene Maxwell,
Chas. B. Mulvaney, Isadore Mulvaney, Harry K. Mann,
Hamen G. Matheney, Chas. Mcgaughey, John W. Norton,
Roy Ping, Robt. L. Ping, J.T. Smith, Jos. B. Selby,
Grover Stark, H. Lee Spurgeon, Burleigh Sires, Wm. E. Swick,
Sidney A. Webb, Elmer Wolfe, Wm. C. Whaley,
Paul F. Williams, Milo D. Yelvington, Ira J. Malcom.

Honorable discharged July 8, 1902, Sergt. Jess F. Parr and Heber Umsted.

Eugene Maxwell granted 30 day furlough.

Note

Though Harry Clyde Dowell "Clyde" has death recorded in 1930 on this site, records indicate that his wife "Lulu", was classified as "Widow" in the 1920 census where she lived with her sister Matilda (Valkerhorst?) Craven and her husband George F. Craven in Tipton (Cedar) Iowa with her son "Homer" or (Omar?) listed as "nephew" at 18 years of age.

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Harry Clyde Dowell Headstone, Stark County, Illinois
Harry Clyde Dowell Headstone, Stark County, Illinois
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Harry Clyde Dowell - Military Discharge
Harry Clyde Dowell - Military Discharge
Note: Military discharge notification for Harry Clyde Dowell, Company B, 4th Illinois Regiment from April 1898 to May 1899. Unit was part of Cuban occupation force during the Spanish-American War.