Carrie Bowman (''née'' Caroline Bohrmann; 14 January 1887 – 14 November 1971) was an American

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stage actress, active from 1901 to 1911.

Career

Bowman was born to Leopold "Lee" Bohrmann (1853–1925) and Bertha Moses (''maiden''; (1866–1918) and was a granddaughter of the famed

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cantor (''

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) ''and rabbi Marx Moses (1832–1913), originally of Essingen,

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, who ministered to the early Reform Jewish communities in America.

Family

While on post-Broadway tour performing Wilbur D. Nesbit (book), Hoschna (music), and Harbach's (lyrics) musical, ''The Girl of My Dreams,'' Bowman – on April 7, 1912, in Huntington, West Virginia – married her vaudeville partner, Thomas Harold Forbes (1885–1953) of the

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, printing family. They retired from the stage, moved to

, and Forbes went into the family publishing business, building a chain of suburban newspapers, starting with the ''New Rochelle Standard-Star.'' They had five children. Thomas Harold Forbes died in 1953, and Carrie relocated to

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, where she died in 1971. One of their grandsons, Michael Patrick Forbes (born 1952), went on to become a U.S. Congressman from New York, Michael Patrick Forbes.

References

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