Introduction

Biography

Bowness was the son of Hen­ry Briggs and Al­ice Jacques, and hus­band of Ro­sa­line Brech­emin.

He was edu­cat­ed at St. Marks Col­lege and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­van­ia (BMus 1893).

In 1879, he joined the Phi­la­del­phia and Read­ing Rail­road as a ste­no­gra­pher, lat­er work­ing at the Re­pau­no Che­mi­cal Com­pa­ny (1882–83), the Phi­la­del­phia and Read­ing Railroad (1883–87), the Wilm­ing­ton and North­ern Rail­road (1888–1900), and the At­lan­tic Ci­ty Rail­road (1900).

He was a mem­ber of the Hous­ton Club, Un­ion League of Phi­la­del­phia, and the Manu­script Mu­sic So­cie­ty.