Bowker, Richard Rogers (1848-1933)

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Richard Rogers Bowker to Jane Addams, November 14, 1904

Richard Rogers Bowker to Jane Addams, February 18, 1925

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, May 6, 1916

List of contributors to the Barnett Memorial Fellowship

Annotated list of names to solicit for Barnett Memorial Fellowship, January 12, 1925

List of Potential Members of the Barnett Memorial Fellowship Committee, January 15, 1925

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, January 15, 1925

Jane Addams to Richard Rogers Bowker, February 21, 1925

Louis J. Affelder to Jane Addams, February 26, 1925

Jane Addams to Richard Rogers Bowker, February 13, 1925

Barnett Memorial Fellowship Fund receipt, February 21, 1925

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Birth Date

1848-09-04

Death Date

1933-11-12

Birthplace

Salem, MA

Biographical Text

Richard Rogers, or "R. R.", Bowker attended the Free School and then the City College of New York, where he founded the school newspaper The Collegian (one of the first United States college newspapers) and studied journalism, graduating in 1868. He then worked for the New York Evening Mail before becoming a manager for The New York Times in 1896. From 1880 to 1882 Bowker lived in London and managed Harper's Magazine. He also founded the American Library Association as well as the Library Journal which he edited for over 50 years. He was instrumental in organizing the earliest list of state documents and compiling information for other bibliographies. Bowker founded the Society for Political Education in 1880 and was a leading member of the "Mugwump" independent Republican Movement in 1879.

Bowker married Alice G. Mitchell. Bowker died in 1933.

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Sciancalepore, Victoria

Lichon, Sara Catherine

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Public domain

Gender

Male

First appears

1904

Bibliography and Links

Richard Rogers Bowker, Encyclopedia Britannica

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“Bowker, Richard Rogers (1848-1933),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed July 26, 2024, https://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/2068.