Nancy Douglas Bowditch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nancy Douglas Bowditch

Date of Birth: 04-Jul-1890

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 01-May-1979

Profession: novelist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Nancy Douglas Bowditch, also known as Mrs.
Harold Bowditch, was born Nancy Brush, (July 4, 1890, Paris France – May 1, 1979, Peterborough, New Hampshire), daughter of George de Forest Brush and the family was neighbors and friends with Samuel Clemens and his daughter Jean Clemens, who died about 1909.
She met and married William Robert Pearmain, had a daughter and he unexpectedly deceased some months after the family met ?Abdu'l-Bahá, then head of the Bahá'í Faith.
She then married Harold Bowditch a few years later.
She became involved in costume work for plays but sought spiritual concerns and found the religion in 1926, joining in 1929, going on Bahá'í pilgrimage and serving her years in communities and in the arts inside and outside the religion's community.
She was elected as Chair of the Boston Spiritual Assembly, the local governing council of the religion, in 1931 and to the first local assembly of Peterborough, New Hampshire, among the Bahá'ís of Greater Boston.