ROSE HILL CEMETERY, COLUMBIA TENNESSEE

SOWELL, Ashley B., 12 Aug 1893 - 10 Jul 1945. (Died in Panama Canal Zone.) Block "K"

Letter envelope Postmarked: 7:30 P.M. Jan 11, 1943 Chicago Illinois - Addressed to: Honorable Ashbley B. Sowell, Columbia Tennessee

The A.N. Marquis Co.
919 N. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, Illinois

The following personal sketch appears in the last edition of Who's Who In America, issued about two years (1941) ago. It is now sent for up-to-date revision, with a view to its inclusion in the 1944-1945 edition, subject to editorial approval.

Sowell, Ashley B.; Foreign Services Officer; born Columbia, Tennessee Aug 12, 1893,
son of Felix C. & Mary Evans Sowell. Educated Columbia Tenn., Studied journalism and
economics, N.Y. City, Washington, D.C, & Nashville. Honorable Degree at Columbia Military Academy; Married Winnie Davis Estes, Aug 4, 1917; 1 daughter, Jane Howard Sowell (Mrs. Robert Lloyd Douglass). In newspaper business as through all departments, successively, to editor, General Manager, Publisher, 1910-1934; business specialist and special assistant to Secretary U.S. Dept of Commerce Washington D.C. 1934-1939; Commercial attach� to Panama, since 1939; Vice President Maury Democrat Co.; Former Director Middle Tennessee Bank, Secretary, Board of Trade; Secretary, City Board of Education., Ex-President, Tenn. Press Association. Clubs: Kiwanis, Century, Elks (Columbia Tenn. & Union (Panama). Home: Columbia Tenn., Address: Department of State, Washington D.C.

Image of the original copy follows:

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As transcribed & compiled by C. Wayne Austin  6 Jun 2014 - Discovered in rummage sale in Huntsville Alabama about 2005