Carrie Bowman

{{Infobox person

| name = Carrie Bowman

| birth_name = Caroline Bohrmann

| image = Carrie_Bowman_001.jpg

| image_size = 250px

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

| birth_date = {{birth date|1887|01|14}}

| birth_place = Atlanta, Georgia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1971|11|22|1887|01|14}}

| death_place = Westhampton Beach, New York

| occupation = Actress

| spouse = Thomas Harold Forbes

}}

Carrie Bowman (née Caroline Bohrmann; 14 January 1887 – 14 November 1971) was an American Broadway 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 Jewish cantor (hazzan) and rabbi Marx Moses (1832–1913), originally of Essingen, Germany, 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 New Rochelle, New York, printing family. They retired from the stage, moved to New Rochelle, New York, 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 Westhampton Beach, New York, 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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{{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Newsday, November 23,|1971|p=}} |last1=Newsday |author-link1=Newsday |date=November 23, 1971 |title=Caroline B. Forbes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/719332328 |url-access=subscription |type=Nassau & Suffolk eds. |access-date=October 21, 2021 |volume=32 |issue=69 |page=33 |via=Newspapers.com}}

{{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|Variety, April 13,|1912|}} |date=April 13, 1912 |title=Bowman–Forbes |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1912-04-13_26_6/page/6/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater |journal=Variety |volume=26 |issue=6 |page=6 (column 2) |access-date=October 21, 2021 |via=Internet Archive }}

{{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Brooklyn Eagle, March 5,|1953|p=13}} |last1=Brooklyn Eagle |author-link1=Brooklyn Eagle |date=March 5, 1953 |title=T. Harold Forbes, 67, Published L.I., Westchester Newspapers |newspaper=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45307432/ |edition=Late News |volume=112 |issue=63 |page=13 |via=Newspapers.com }}

{{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|Editor & Publisher, March 7,|1953|p=60}} |date=March 7, 1953 |title=T. Harold Forbes, Group Founder, Dies |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1953-03-07_86_11/page/60/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater |journal=Editor & Publisher |volume=86 |issue=11 |page=60 |via=Internet Archive}}

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Category:American stage actresses

Category:Jewish American actresses

Category:American people of German-Jewish descent

Category:1971 deaths

Category:1887 births

Category:20th-century American actresses

Category:Actresses from New Rochelle, New York