Catherine Drinker Bowen - Family

Family

Catherine Drinker married Ezra Bowen, the Chair of Economics at Lehigh University and author of "Social Economics." She was survived by a daughter, Catherine Prince; a son, Ezra Bowen, the Sports Illustrated and Time-Life writer and editor; and grandsons Ezra D. and Matthew Bowen.

Catherine was the daughter of Henry Sturgis Drinker and had four brothers, Harry an attorney and chamber music composer and conductor; Jim; Cecil, the founder of the Harvard School of Public Health; and Philip, inventor of the iron lung; and a sister, Ernesta.

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