William Duckett Bowie

William Duckett Bowie

William Duckett Bowie (October 7, 1803 – July 18, 1873),cite book
last =Hall
first =Clayton Colman
title =Baltimore: Its History and Its People, vol.3
publisher =Lewis Historical Publishing Co
date =1912
pages =303-306
url =http://books.google.com/books?id=DMcLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA304&vq=%22oden+bowie%22&dq=thomas+fielder+bowie#PPA304,M1
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] was an American politician. The eldest child of William Bowie and Kitty Beanes Duckett, he was born at Fairview Plantation in Prince Georges County, Maryland.

Career and Wealth

His maternal grandfather, Baruch Duckett left him Quarter Plantation near Collington, Maryland where he settled after leaving college as well as a sizeable number of slavesCitation
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title =ADDISON v. BOWIE
place=Bland's Reports:Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland: 1809-1832
work=Bland's Reports: Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland: 1809-1832
publisher = Maryland State Archives
year =1829
date=2 October, 1829
location =Maryland State Archives
volume = Volume 201, Volume 2, Page 606
url =http://www.msa.md.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/000001/000201/html/am201b--606.html
] After the death of his two brothers, Robert Bowie in 1818 and Walter Baruch Bowie in 1832, and by purchasing the interests of his sisters, he became the owner of Fairview where he then made his home.

Upon the death of his father in 1810, William Duckett Bowie was made the executioner of his will which increased his wealth significantly and his uncle, Daniel Bowie bequeathed to him all of his land upon his death as well which combined, made him one of the wealthiest planters in Prince Georges County.cite book
last =Spencer
first =Richard Henry
title =Genealogical and Memorial Encyclopedia of the State of Maryland
publisher =American Historical Society
date =1919
location =New York
pages =392
url =http://books.google.com/books?id=aVMDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA392&lpg=PA392&dq=%22general+thomas+f+bowie%22&source=web&ots=iL0DKdhTai&sig=nswRUeIS2t_lO5b9e4qFFv_tfoY
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In 1830, he and his uncle Walter Bowie Jr. were appointed by the Governor Thomas King Carroll as members of the Levy Court for Prince Georges County. In 1838 and 1839 he was nominated by the Democrats for the state Legislature but defeated by his cousin Thomas Fielder Bowie the Whig candidate. in 1840, he overcame the large Whig vote and was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in which he served two terms. After that, he beat the Whig leader Robert Bowie of Mattaponi, Maryland for the Maryland Senate seat. He was re-elected at the end of his first term.

Family

On February 8, 1825, William Duckett Bowie married Eliza Mary Oden, daughter of Benjamin Oden Sr. and Rachael Sophia West. They had five children, Oden Bowie, born December 10, 1826, Catherine Bowie in 1828, William Duckett Bowie, Jr. in November 1830, Christiana Sophia Bowie in 1835 and Walter Baruch Bowie on August 26, 1836. Eliza died in 1849.

On January 7, 1854, William Duckett Bowie married his first wife's half-sister, Mary Black West. They had three girls, Harriet Oden Bowie, Mary Eliza Bowie and Laura Bowie.

After his second marriage Bowie gave Fairview to his eldest son, Oden Bowie and moved to Bellefield near Croom, Maryland which was the old Colonial home of his second wife. Bellefield had originally been the property of Patrick Sim, ancestor of Governor Thomas Sim Lee. Bowie died at Bellefield July 18, 1873 and is interred at Fairview.

Further Reading

*cite book | last = Bowie | first = Walter Worthington | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = The Bowies and Their Kindred; A Genealogical and Biographical History. | publisher = Polyanthos | date = 1971 | location = | pages = | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=eyo3AAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 | doi = | id = | isbn = 9780832819636

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