Bowker, E. F. (Edwin Freeman), 1840-1924
Biography
Edwin Freeman Bowker (1840-1924) was an American civil engineer and surveyor. He was born on April 17, 1840 to Freeman Bowker and Sarah (Batchelder) Bowker in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from English High School in Boston, MA in 1856 and was employed at Whitwell and Henck in Boston, MA, where he did the surveying for Boston’s first horsecar railroad. Bowker was one of the civil engineers engaged to survey the battlefield at Antietam in the early 1860s, but left the project due to hay fever. After returning to Massachusetts, he worked at the Cambridge Street Department in Cambridge, MA until 1872. In 1873, he established his own firm, active in Cambridge, Brighton, Brookline, Newton, Somerville, and Boston, MA. He also planned St. Paul's Cemetery in East Arlington, MA. His business was acquired by Dana F. Perkins & Sons, Inc. in 1905.
He married Jane H. Wellington in 1872. Edwin Freeman Bowker died on June 11, 1924 in Cambridge, MA.