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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use American English Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox person Flora Juliet Bowley (April 29, 1881 – December 30, 1966) was an American actress.

Early life

Flora Juliet Bowley was born in San Francisco in 1881,[1] the daughter of Freeman Sparks Bowley (1846-1903) and Flora Ella Pepper Bowley (1846-1939).[2] 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.[3][4] Her mother, known as "Mother Bowley", was a beloved maternal figure at San Francisco's Presidio.[5] One of her brothers was U.S. Army general Albert Jesse Bowley Sr.[6] She graduated from Smith College.[7][8]

Career

Bowley had a short but successful career as a stage actress.[9] She appeared in The Fortunes of the King and The Bachelor's Romance in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1905,[10] and The Lion and the Mouse in Chicago and New York in 1906.[11] She starred with Robert Edeson in Classmates on Broadway in 1907.[2] She was said to resemble the actress Mary Mannering, but they were not (as some rumors held) related to each other.[12]

Personal life

Bowley married Julius Theodore Charles Hoffman (1848-1935) in 1914. The Hoffmans had four children. Flora Juliet Bowley Hoffman died in 1966, in Monterey, California, aged 85 years.

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