Carrie Bowman

Carrie Bowman in 1908 when she was appearing in George M. Cohan's The American Idea

Carrie Bowman (Bohrmann) (1887 - 1971) was an American Broadway stage actress, active from 1901 to 1911.[1]

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, of Leopold and Bertha (née Moses) Bohrmann. Carrie was the granddaughter of the famed Jewish cantor (hazzan) and rabbi Marx Moses, originally of Essingen, Germany, who ministered to the early Reform Jewish communities in America.

She married Harold Forbes, of the New Rochelle, NY printing family, while on tour in Charleston, West Virginia. The couple returned to New York, where Carrie gave birth to five children. Harold died in 1953, and Carrie relocated to Westhampton Beach, NY, where she died in 1971.

References

  1. ↑ Carrie Bowman at the Internet Broadway Database


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