Elizabeth Crocker Bowers

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Elizabeth Crocker Bowers
Actress
Years active1846–1895
Spouse(s)
David P. Bowers
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(m. 1847; died 1857)​

Dr. Brown (circa 1860–1867, his death)
J. C. McCollom
RelativesSarah Crocker Conway (sister), Conway Tearle (great nephew), Godfrey Tearle (great nephew)

Elizabeth Crocker Bowers (March 12, 1830 – November 6, 1895)

stage actress and theatrical manager.[2][3]
She was also known professionally as Mrs. D. P. Bowers.

Early life

Elizabeth Crocker Bowers was born March 12, 1830, in

clergyman[1] and sister of actress Sarah Crocker Conway (also known as Mrs. F. B. Conway).[4]

Career and marriages

In 1846, she appeared in the character of "Amanthis"

Park Theatre in New York City, New York.[3]

On March 4, 1847,[1][4] she married actor David P. Bowers,[3] and moved to Philadelphia. She appeared as Donna Victoria in A Bold Stroke for a Husband at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia. She became very popular at the Arch Street Theatre, and made Philadelphia her home until her husband's death in 1857.[4]

In December 1857, after a period of retirement from the stage, she leased the Walnut Street Theatre and retained its management until 1859. She then leased the

Philadelphia Academy of Music for a short dramatic season.[1]

She married Dr. Brown of

Juliet, Lady Macbeth, and Marie Antoinette.[3]

After the death of Dr. Brown in 1867, she toured extensively with James "J.C." McCollum whom she later married. With McCollom,

Virginia City, Nv at Piper's Opera House. Returning in 1875, Mrs. Bowers followed Katherine Rogers at the California Theatre with the first presentation in America of Rose Michel; Bowers “more triumphant” every time she “comes to California.”[5] She was the last legitimate player at the California Theatre before its demise in 1888.[6]

Her subsequent retirement in Philadelphia was interrupted by a return to the stage in October 1886 for several years.[3] She organized a new dramatic company, and visited the principal cities of the U.S., playing many of her old and favorite characters. Under A. M. Palmer's management she appeared in Lady Windermere's Fan (1893), and later she was a supporting actress for Rose Coghlan and Olga Nethersole.[1]

Bowers died of pneumonia and heart failure

Washington D.C. She was survived by a daughter, Mrs. F. V.(May) Bennett and two sons, Harry C. Bowers of Portland, OR and Walter Bowers of New York City.[7] She was buried at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Bowers, Elizabeth Crocker" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. Vol. I. 1900. p. 337.
  2. ^ Barnhart, Clarence L., ed. (1954). "Bowers, Elizabeth Crocker". New Century Cyclopedia of Names, Volume One, A – Emin Pasha. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. p. 607.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Gilman, Daniel Coit (1905). The New International Encyclopedia. New York: Dodd, Mead. p. 381.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Mrs. D. P. Bowers, A Footlight Favorite, Passes Quietly Away". The Norfolk Virginian. November 7, 1895. Retrieved January 29, 2013.
  5. ISBN 9781948908382
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  6. ^ Eichin, From San Francisco Eastward, p. 169.
  7. ^ "Mrs. D.P. Bowers Dead". The San Francisco Call. November 7, 1895. Retrieved January 29, 2013.
  8. ^ "Famous Actress is Dead". The Morning Times (Washington, D. C.). November 7, 1895. Retrieved January 29, 2013.

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