Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Lt. Wayland Stanley Bowser




Husband Lt. Wayland Stanley Bowser 1 2




           Born: 29 Mar 1894 - Danville, PA 3
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         Father: Rev. Addison Bartholomew Bowser (1858-      ) 1 4
         Mother: Ella Zelima Stebbins (1869-      ) 1 5





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General Notes: Husband - Lt. Wayland Stanley Bowser


He attended the public schools, graduating with his brother Frank in the Crafton high school, 1912. He enlisted in the Officers' Training Corps August 27, 1917, and was stationed at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, receiving his commission of first lieutenant in the infantry November 26, 1917; assigned December 15, 1917, to Co. D, 325th Infantry, 82nd Div., at Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Georgia; transferred December 23, 1917, to the 5th Div., Regular Army, at Camp Logan, Houston, Texas; assigned to Co. B, 5th Military Police; left Houston for France April 20, 1918, and sailed April 30 on the S. Niagara; arrived at Bordeaux, France, May 11, 1918. He was in service in the Vosges mountains, St. Mihiel offensive, Meuse, Argonne, Luxembourg and Germany. He was transferred to the 42nd Division, March 15, 1919, and assigned to the 42nd Military Police Co., and left Germany April 6, 1919; arrived at New York on the Leviathan April 18, 1919; discharged at Camp Dix, New Jersey, May 1, 1919. He was wounded in the battle at Romagne, France. After his discharge from the army he entered the University of Pittsburgh.

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1 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 379.

2 Addison B. Bowser, A.M, The Bowser Family History (Chicago, IL: Excelsior Printing Co., 1922), Pg 119, 148.

3 Addison B. Bowser, A.M, The Bowser Family History (Chicago, IL: Excelsior Printing Co., 1922), Pg 119.

4 Addison B. Bowser, A.M, The Bowser Family History (Chicago, IL: Excelsior Printing Co., 1922), Pg 111.

5 Addison B. Bowser, A.M, The Bowser Family History (Chicago, IL: Excelsior Printing Co., 1922), Pg 147.


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