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BOWES, JAMES R. OBITUARY 1892

THE OTTAWA CITIZEN, Thursday, January 14, 1892: DEATH OF J.R. BOWES, One of the Victims of a Fire in Hanford, California. Very great regret was expressed in Ottawa yesterday when it became known that Mr. Jas. R. Bowes, architect, of this city, had met with his death in Hanford, California. From the information received it appears that Mr. Bowes was boarding in a house where fire broke out, resulting in four men being burned. Mr. Bowes hoping to escape, jumped from his bedroom window and was so seriously injured that he died the next day, January 4th. Deceased was well known in Ottawa as a first class architect, and his professional reputation was not confined to this city, but spread throughout the Dominion. During a brief residence in Winnipeg he designed some of the most prominent buildings there and throughout the west. In Ottawa his principal works were the present St. Bridget's Church, the Police Station and the Central Fire Station. He leaves a childless widow to mourn his loss. The remains were buried by the Catholic Mutual Benefit Society, of which he was a member.