Bowen, Louise de Koven (1859-1953)

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Louise de Koven Bowen to Jane Addams, May 17, 1904

Louise de Koven Bowen to Jane Addams, May 11, 1905

Louise de Koven Bowen to Jane Addams, June 18, 1905

Louise de Koven Bowen to Jane Addams, June 19, [1905]

Louise de Koven Bowen to Jane Addams, November 24, 1905

Louise de Koven Bowen to Jane Addams, May 6, 1906

Louise de Koven Bowen to Jane Addams, May 7, 1906

Louise de Koven Bowen to Jane Addams, January 11, 1907

Louise de Koven Bowen to Jane Addams, August 11, 1908

Louise de Koven Bowen to Jane Addams, October 4, 1908

Louise de Koven Bowen to Jane Addams, October 6, 1908 (fragment)

Louise de Koven Bowen to Editor of Chicago Evening Post, March 6, 1909

Jane Addams, Louise de Koven Bowen, Sophonisba P. Breckinridge to Unknown (re: Edward A. and Sara L. Steiner), [March 12], 1909

St Louis Speech, May 23, 1910

Louise de Koven Bowen to Jane Addams, August 3, 1911

Louise de Koven Bowen to Julia Clifford Lathrop, August 18, 1911

Louise de Koven Bowen to Crystal Eastman, April 23, 1912

Louise de Koven Bowen to Anita McCormick Blaine, May 27, 1912

Louise de Koven Bowen to Crystal Eastman, May 28, 1912

Louise de Koven Bowen for Jane Addams to Edward S. Beck, August 24, 1912

Jane Addams to Catharine Waugh McCulloch, August 24, 1912

Jane Addams et al. to David Starr Jordan and Clifford G. Roe, January 31, 1913

Jane Addams et al. to Woodrow Wilson, October 18, 1913

Jane Addams et al. to Louis Freeland Post, October 18, 1913

Summary of Jane Addams et al. to Woodrow Wilson, October 19, 1913

Jane Addams et al. to Emmeline Pankhurst, October 19, 1913

Louise de Koven Bowen to Anita McCormick Blaine, May 28, 1914

Mary Rozet Smith to Nettie Fowler McCormick, May 2, 1915

Louise de Koven Bowen to Louis Paul Lochner, December 2, 1915

Louise de Koven Bowen to Salmon Oliver Levinson, December 7, 1915

Jane Addams and Louise de Koven Bowen to Edgar Addison Bancroft, June 13, 1916

Jane Addams and Louise de Koven Bowen to Edgar Addison Bancroft, June 17, 1916

Louise de Koven Bowen to Wallace L. de Wolf, July 30, 1916

Louise de Koven Bowen to Mary Rozet Smith, June 27, 1923

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, May 15, 1901

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, May 25, 1904

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, August 9, 1904

Jane Addams to Clara Landsberg, August 29, 1905

Jane Addams to Benjamin Barr Lindsey, June 28th, 1906

Hull-House Year Book 1906-1907

Jane Addams to Julia Clifford Lathrop, February 12, 1907

Jane Addams to Helen Culver, March 12, 1908

Harriet Dean Flower Smith Farwell to Jane Addams, April 10, 1908

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, August 14, 1908

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, August 23, 1908

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, October 5, 1908

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, June 17, 1909

Jane Addams to Irene Osgood, June 23, 1909

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, August 13, 1909

Jane Addams to Paul Underwood Kellogg, August 21, 1909

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, October 4, 1909

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, October 11, 1909

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, January 23, 1910

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, January 30, 1910

List of Hull-House Donors, March 18, 1910

Jane Addams to Graham Taylor, September 4, 1910

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, September 23, 1910

Jane Addams to Clara Landsberg, September 29, 1910

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, October 2, 1910

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, November 22, 1910

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, November 22, 1910

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, December 7, 1910

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, December 22, 1910

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, January 4, 1911

Julia Clifford Lathrop to Jane Addams, January 10, 1911

John Sanborn Phillips to Jane Addams, March 31, 1911

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, April 2, 1911

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, April 11, 1911

Jane Addams to Julia Clifford Lathrop, June 20, 1911

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, August 24, 1911

Mary Rozet Smith to Esther Loeb Kohn, September 16, 1911

Jane Addams to Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, November 21, 1911

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, December 11, 1911

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, January 31, 1912

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, February 9, 1912

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, February 19, 1912

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, February 29, 1912

Helen Culver to Jane Addams, May 22, 1912

Frances Alice Kellor to Jane Addams, August 14, 1912

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, August 18, 1912

Jane Addams to John A. Kingsbury, August 19, 1912

Alexander Agnew McCormick to Jane Addams, August 20, 1912

Graham Taylor to Jane Addams, August 20, 1912

Harold LeClair Ickes to Jane Addams, January 6, 1913

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Birth Date

1859-02-26

Death Date

1953-11-09

Birthplace

Chicago, IL

Biographical Text

Louise de Koven Bowen attended Dearborn Seminary from ages 5-16 and later taught Sunday School at the St. James Episcopal Church, of which she was a lifelong member. Though she was already active in the settlement, Bowen became a Hull-House trustee in 1903, filling the position vacated by John Dewey. During World War I, she was the only woman appointed to the Illinois Council of Defense as well as the official US representative at the Pan-American Conference of Women in 1922. Born into a wealthy Chicago family, Bowen concentrated her efforts on philanthropy to assist Hull-House. She endowed the Bowen Country Club in Waukegan, IL as a summer camp for Hull-House children. She preferred the spotlight to the shadows when it came to the privacy of her life and philanthropy. She was skillful in using her class privilege to influence politicians and solicit money from the rich.

Bowen was married to Joseph Tilton Bowen. They had four children, Helen Hadduck Bowen Blair, John Bowen, Joseph Bowen and Louise Bowen Phelps. She died in 1953.

Bowen was mentioned heavily in James Weber Linn's biography of his aunt, Jane Addams. She was a woman of Hull-House, and president of the Juvenile Court Committee of Chicago, succeeding Julia Lathrop. She built a summer home, Baymeath, in Bar Harbor, Maine, and Addams was a frequent guest, sometimes spending weeks at a time for respite and for writing. The pair discussed relations between Hull-House and the Women's Club. Bowen often paying for various people and upkeep of Hull House.

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Philanthropist

Social reform activist

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Hajo, Cathy Moran

Bradley, Ed

Lynn, Stacy

Gender

Female

First appears

1901

Bibliography and Links

Louise de Koven Bowen, Baymeath (n.p.: R. F. Seymore, 1944).

SNAC

Sharon Z. Alter, "Louise deKoven Bowen," in Rima Lunin Schultz and Adele Hast, Women Building Chicago, 1790-1900: A Biographical Dictionary (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001), 101-106.

Stebner, Eleanor J. The Women of Hull House: A Study in Spirituality, Vocation, and Friendship. Albany, NY: State U of New York, 1997. Print.

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“Bowen, Louise de Koven (1859-1953),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed October 5, 2023, http://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/814.