Local History Collections

(Description ID: 607259)

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums 

Warren Bowlus

LH - 431

Introduction
Biographical Sketch
Scope and Content
Inventory 

Introduction
This collection was donated to the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums by Bruce Bowlus in February 2018. 

Biographical Sketch
Warren N. Bowlus was born in Pemberville, Ohio on September 1, 1908.  Following graduation from high school, he attended Bowling Green Normal School (now Bowling Green State University), where he met Virginia Teachout of Toledo, Ohio.  They married in June 1933.  Encouraged by his father-in-law, Warren started an insurance agency in Fremont, Ohio in the mid-1930s.  His age made him ineligible for the draft until 1943, when he was inducted into the United States Coast Guard.  He served as an aerographer, 2^nd class, at Oak Island Weather Station (North Carolina) until the end of World War II.  Following his honorable discharge in November 1945, he returned to the insurance business, which Virginia had operated during his absence.  Warren maintained his office in Fremont until his retirement in 1974.  He volunteered in the community and remained active in his church throughout his life.  Warren Bowlus died on October 2, 1997 and is buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Fremont.

Scope and Content 
The collection spans the years from 1942 – 1951, however the bulk of the material is dated from the 1943 – 1947.  The collection principally focuses on the military career of Warren Bowlus. Also included are minimal records pertaining to the Bowlus insurance agency.  Approximately forty photographs complete the collection.   

Inventory

Ac.5995 

BOX 1

Folder 1: Military Correspondence

District Coast Guard Officer to Warren Bowlus - January 23, 1943

J.W. Bornhoeft Jr. to Warren Bowlus - March 6, 1943

Chief of Navy Personnel to Warren Bowlus (Response for Naval Reserve) – Mar 19, 1943       

Wilson H. Blausey to Warren Bowlus - March 24, 1943

District Coast Guard Officer to Warren Bowlus (Temporary Reserve) - May 21, 1943

Warren Bowlus to E.F. Carraway (2) (Elimination from the Watch List) - February 16, 1945

R.P. Gallivan to Warren Bowlus (Auxiliary Membership Extended) - June 26, 1945

Charles F.W. Brown to Warren Bowlus (Authorized Liberty) - July 24, 1945

Charles F.W. Brown to Warren Bowlus (Discharge Request) - October 13, 1945         

Warren Bowlus to Officer in Charge - October 13, 1945

Warren Bowlus to Coast Guard Supply Officer - October 23, 1945

R.B. Fosse to Warren Bowlus (Discharge from the U.S. Coast Guard) - November 26, 1945

J.C. Wendland to Warren Bowlus (Re-enlistment) - January 29, 1946

L.W. Parker to Chief [Copy of Original] - May 6, 1946

W.L. McCabe to Warren Bowlus - May 23, 1946

R.T. McElligott to Warren Bowlus - January 1947

M.K. Hutchinson to Warren Bowlus (Claim for Settlement) - February 13, 1947

William F. Crawford to Warren Bowlus -  April 5, 1950

Bob Hollowell to Warren Bowlus

Folder 2: Personal Correspondence

Sidney J. Rivenbark to Warren Bowlus (Hotel Cape Fear Reservations) - January 4, 1944

Sidney J. Rivenbark to Warren Bowlus (Hotel Cape Fear Reservations) - March 15, 1944

Georganna Musson to Warren Bowlus - November 13, 1944

Georganna Musson to Warren Bowlus - May 20, 1945

Telegram Warren Bowlus to Virginia Bowlus - April 2       

Telegram Warren Bowlus to Virginia Bowlus

Telegram Field Director to Warren Bowlus - October 30

Telegram Warren Bowlus to Virginia Bowlus - December 11

Telegram Warren Bowlus to Virginia Bowlus

Jack Eisenhower to Uncle Bud [Warren Bowlus]

Bud [Warren Bowlus] to Virginia Bowlus

Letters from The Exchange Club of Fremont (3)

The Exchange Club of Fremont Weekly News Bulletin

Series of Weather dispatches Bud [Warren Bowlus] to Virginia Bowlus

Anniversary Card - January 2001

Orton Plantation Postcard

Cape Fear Hotel Postcard Bud [Warren Bowlus] to ?

Wilmington Postcard

Greenfield Park Postcard (1)

Greenfield Lake and Park Postcard (2)

Greenfield Lake Postcard (3)

Flower Postcard (4)

Princess Place Postcard (5) 

Folder 3: Military Documents

Certificate of Enrollment- Warren Bowlus - August 21, 1942

United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Membership Certificate - April 27, 1942

U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary ID- Warren Bowlus - April27, 1942    

Notice to Appear for Physical Examination- Warren Bowlus - February 10, 1943

Notice of Classification- Warren Bowlus - February 17, 1943

Order to Report for Induction - April 2, 1943

Radiobeacon System Atlantic and Gulf Coasts - January 1, 1944

Coast Guard Weather Reporting Service- Monthly Summary of Operations - March 1944

Wind Resultant Computation Sheet - June 1944

Application for Leave of Absence- Warren Bowlus - April 3, 1945

Special Liberty Pass- Warren Bowlus - May 5, 1945

U.S. Coast Guard Meal Ticket - November 8, 1945

U.S. Coast Guard Meal Ticket - November 10, 1945

Veterans Administration Certificate of Eligibility - January 28, 1949

Thanksgiving Menu - November 23, 1944

The First Presbyterian Church Worship Pamphlet - October 21, 1945

Service Wife Label

Hotel Lexington Notepad

Correspondence Postal Card- Warren Bowlus

Separatees Liberty Pass- Warren Bowlus

Personnel Bulletin No. 84-43.

Aerographer’s School Training Unit

Surface Weather Observations Paperwork

Coast Guard Training Station Letterhead

United States Coast Guard Letterhead

Coast Guard Training Station Postcard

Official Records Envelope (Official Separation Papers)

Interviewers’ Check List and Referral Sheet

Notice of Separation from the U.S. Naval Service – Coast Guard

Coded Pilot-Balloon Data

Notice of Discontinuance of Family Allowance- Virginia Bowlus

Registration Certificate- Warren Bowlus

Classification Card- Warren Bowlus

Navy Department – Tobacco Rationing Card- Warren Bowlus

Going Back to Civilian Life Booklet

Servicemen’s Recreation Flyer 

Folder 4: Personal Documents

Hotel Cape Fear Receipt - January 11, 1944

Hotel Cape Fear Receipt - April 7, 1944

Hotel Cape Fear Receipt - August 24, 1945

Greyhound Ticket to Charleston, SC - November 16, 1945

The Pullman Company Standard Ticket Charleston, SC to Detroit, Mich - November 20, 1945

Train Ticket Cincinnati, OH to Detroit, Mich - November 21, 1945

Recorder’s Office Receipt - 1945

Application for Customer Identification and Liquor Purchase Record 

Folder 5: Military Newspaper Articles and Publications

The Airship Newspaper Vol. 2 No. 1 - August 4, 1943

Harpoon Magazine Vol. 2 No. 7 - May 13, 1943

About Town Magazine Vol. 3 No. 30 - June 11, 1943

Harpoon Magazine Vol. 2 No. 9 - July 1, 1943

Harpoon Magazine Vol. 2 No. 10 - July 15, 1943

Invasion Weather Newspaper Article - May 13, 1944

Deep Six Magazine - December 1944

Weatherman Newspaper Article 

Folder 6: Bowlus Insurance Agency Documents 

K.L. Bradford to Warren Bowlus - April 5, 1943

Alvin F. Weichel to Warren Bowlus Insurance Service (Insurance Legislation) – Dec. 6, 1944

George H. Bender to Virginia Bowlus - December 8, 1944

Harold H. Burton to Virginia Bowlus (Insurance Legislation) - January 6, 1945

Notification of Discontinuance of Allotment * - November 26, 1945

Supt. of Agents to Warren Bowlus - December 22, 1945

L.W. Parker to W.L. Chetister [Copy of Original] - December 28, 1945

H.L. Guite to Warren Bowlus (Authorization of Training Allowance) - April 13, 1946

Gerry R. Holden Jr. to Warren Bowlus - May 15, 1946

L.W. Parker to C.E. Gunether [Copy of Original] - June 27, 1946

M.M. King to Warren Bowlus - September 3, 1946

L.W. Parker to C.E. Guenther [Copy of Original] - December 31, 1946

C.E. Guenther to Warren Bowlus (Authorization of Training Allowance) - January 18, 1947

L.W. Parker to W.L. Chetister [Copy of Original] - June 13, 1947

Herbert L. Wolcott to Warren Bowlus (Change in Beneficiary) - August 6, 1947

Premium Receipt * - April 1949

Premium Receipt * - August 1950

Lewis C. Cook to Warren Bowlus (Application of Renewal) - January 29, 1951

Lewis C. Cook to Warren Bowlus - March 2, 1951

Lewis C. Cook to Warren Bowlus - May 7, 1951

Aetna Roll of Honor *

Aetna Arrangements to Mrs. Bowlus 

Folder 7: Identified Photographs 

Horses at Oak Island

Annette Eisenhour [Eisenhower], Jack Eisenhour [Eisenhower], Virginia Bowlus, Warren Bowlus

Ginnie [Virginia Bowlus]

Annette & Jack Eisenhour [Eisenhower] at Oak Island

Whale washed ashore at Oak Island

Jimmy Heyrer and Dickie the Captains grandson

Welsh of the Mounted Beach Patrol

Bud [Warren Bowlus]

Bulldog given to Virginia 

Folder 8: Unidentified Photographs (28)