_Nathaniel Mowry ____+
| (1644 - 1717) m 1666
_Joseph Mowry _______|_Joanna Inman _______
| (1672 - 1755) m 1695 (1640 - 1718)
_Daniel Mowry _______|
| (1697 - 1787) m 1722|
| | _Eleazer Whipple ____+
| | | (.... - 1719) m 1669
| |_Alice Whipple ______|_Alice Angell _______
| (1675 - 1746) m 1695 (1649 - 1743)
_Joseph Mowry ____________|
| (1723 - 1764) m 1743 |
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| |_Mary Steere ________|
| (1696 - 1776) m 1722|
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_Richard Mowry ______|
| (1748 - 1835) m 1774|
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| |_Anne Whipple ____________|
| (1725 - 1765) m 1743 |
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|--Gideon Mowry
| (1778 - 1866)
| _Thomas Harris ______+
| | (.... - 1686) m 1636
| _Thomas Harris ______|_Elizabeth __________
| | (.... - 1710) m 1664
| _Thomas Harris ______|
| | (1665 - 1741) m 1695|
| | | _Richard Tew ________
| | | | (.... - 1673)
| | |_Elnathan Tew _______|_Mary Clarke ________
| | (1644 - 1718) m 1664 (.... - 1687)
| _Gideon or Gidian Harris _|
| | (1713 - ....) m 1739 |
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| | | _Henry Browne _______|_____________________
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| | |_Phebe Browne _______|
| | (1660 - 1723) m 1695|
| | | _Richard Waterman ___
| | | | (1590 - 1673) m 1629
| | |_Waite Waterman _____|_Bethiah Waite ______
| | (.... - 1680)
|_Huldah Harris ______|
(1745 - 1795) m 1774|
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!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 28 Jul 2004. Cites entry in The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume II (1904)
MOWRY, William Augustus, author, was born in Uxbridge, Mass., Aug. 13, 1829; son of Jonathan and Hannah (Brayton) Mowry; grandson of Gideon and Ruth (Wheeler) Mowry; great-grandson of Richard (the preacher) and Huldah (Harris) Mowry; great2-grandson of Joseph {19587} and Anne (Whipple) {56285} Mowry, and great3-grandson of Captain Daniel {11741} and Mary (Steere) {42546} Mowry. He attended Phillips academy and Brown university, and was principal of the English high school at Providence, R.I., 1859-64. He served as captain in the 11th R.I. volunteer infantry, 1862-63; was senior principal of the English and Classical school at Providence, 1864-84; superintendent of schools, Cranston, R.I., 1864-66, and editor of the Journal of Education, Boston, Mass., 1884-86, and Education, 1886-91. He was a member of the school board of Providence, R.I., 1869-75, and of Boston, 1889-91; superintendent of schools at Salem, Mass., 1891-94; president of the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction, 1864-66; of the American Institute of Instruction, 1880-82; of the Massachusetts council of the American Institute of Civics, 1885-87 ;of the Martha's Vineyard summer institute from 1878; of the department of higher education, National Educational association, in 1889; became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the New England Historic Genealogical society, and the National Council of Education in 1880; a corresponding member of the Rhode Island Historical society; of the Oregon Historical society, and was one of the founders and a member of the American Historical society. In 1902 he had given more than two thousand lectures, mostly on historical and educational subjects, in various states, thus addressing over one hundred thousand teachers. He is the author of: Who Invented the American Steamboat? (1874); The Descendants of Nathaniel Mowry (1878); A Family History (1878); Political Education in the Schools (1878); The School Curriculum and Business Life (1881); Talks with My Boys (1884); Studies in Civil Government (1888); A National University (1889); Elements of Civil Government (1890); Talks with Boys (revised, 1892); Annual Report of the Superintendent of Schools, Salem, Mass. (4 vols., 1891-94); War Stories (1892); Sunshine upon the Psalms (1892); Lov'st Thou Me More than These? (1892); Art Decorations for School Rooms (1892); Difficulties attending the Organization of our National Government in 1789; A History of the United States (1896); First Steps in the History of Our Country (1898); American Inventions and Inventors (1900); Marcus Whitman and the Early Days of Oregon (1901), and Territorial Growth of the United States (1902).
!SOURCE: "Descendants of Gideon Mowry," email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 17 Jan 2008. Cites Vital Records of Uxbridge, MA to the Year 1850 (birth); Vital Records Of Berlin Massachusetts To The End Of The Year 1899 (marriage).
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