Carrie Bowman

Carrie Bowman was an American Broadway stage actress, active from 1901 to 1911.

Career

Bowman was born to Leopold "Lee" Bohrmann and Bertha Moses and was a granddaughter of the famed Jewish cantor ''and rabbi Marx Moses, originally of Essingen, Germany, who ministered to the early Reform Jewish communities in America.

While on post-Broadway tour performing Wilbur D. Nesbit, Hoschna, and Harbach's musical, The Girl of My Dreams, Bowman – on April 7, 1912, in Huntington, West Virginia – married her vaudeville partner, Thomas Harold Forbes 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, went on to become a U.S. Congressman from New York, Michael Patrick Forbes.