Flora Juliet Bowley

Flora Juliet Bowley was an American actress.

Early life

Flora Juliet Bowley was born in San Francisco in 1881, the daughter of Freeman Sparks Bowley and Flora Ella Pepper Bowley. Her father, who briefly led the 30th U.S. Colored Infantry regiment and was a prisoner-of-war in the American Civil War, was a railroad engineer who wrote several books on military topics, and a memoir. Her mother, known as "Mother Bowley", was a beloved maternal figure at San Francisco's Presidio. One of her brothers was U.S. Army general Albert Jesse Bowley Sr. She graduated from Smith College in 1904.

Bowley had a short but successful career as a stage actress. She appeared in The Fortunes of the King and The Bachelor's Romance in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1905, and The Lion and the Mouse in Chicago and New York in 1906. She starred with Robert Edeson in Classmates on Broadway in 1907. She was said to resemble the actress Mary Mannering, but they were not related to each other.

Bowley married Julius Theodore Charles Hoffman in 1914. The Hoffmans had four children. Flora Juliet Bowley Hoffman died in 1966, in Monterey, California, aged 85 years.