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Oden Bowie (1826-1894)
MSA SC 3520-1465

Governor of Maryland 1869-1872

Sources:


Archival Sources:

Prince George's County Commissioner of Slave Statistics, Slave Statistics, 1867-1869, p. 301-303, MSA CE157-5.

Maryland Indexes, Freedom Records, Prince George's County, MSA S1411.

"Resolutions tendering the thanks of the legislature to Captain Oden Bowie, for his gallant conduct during the present war with Mexico." Session Laws, December 1847, Resolution No. 43, Archives of Maryland Online vol. 612, p. 439.

Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties, "Fairview," PG-71A-13.


Newspapers:

"Proceedings of the Courts," The Sun (Baltimore), 28 November 1866.

"Letter [to the Editor] from Governor Bowie," The Sun (Baltimore), 7 February 1870.

Letter of response from the editors, The Sun, 7 February 1870.

"The Governor's Message," The Annapolis Gazette, 9 January 1872.

"Ex-Gov. Bowie to Sell His Racers and Lead a Country Life," The Sun (Baltimore), 25 August 1890.

"Ex-Gov. Bowie's Retirement from the Turf," The Sun (Baltimore), 26 August 1890.

The Sun (Baltimore), 29 November 1894.

The Sun (Baltimore), 5 December 1894.

"Gov. Oden Bowie's family treasures up for auction." The Bowie Blade-News, 7 May 2014.


Books:

Bowie, Walter Worthington. The Bowies and their Kindred. 1899.

Buchholz, Heinrich Ewald. Governors of Maryland from the Revolution to the Year 1908. 2d ed. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Co., 1908.

Eisenberg, Gerson G. Marylanders Who Served the Nation: A Biographical Dictionary of Federal Officials from Maryland. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1992.

Inaugural Address of Gov. Oden Bowie to the General Assembly of Maryland, January 8, 1868. Annapolis, 1868.

Johnson, Allen, ed. Dictionary of American Biography, vol. I. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964.

Message of Governor Oden Bowie to the General Assembly of Maryland, at Its Regular Session, January 1870. Annapolis, 1870.

White, Frank F. Jr. The Governors of Maryland 1771-1970. Annapolis: The Hall of Records Commission, 1970.


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