[1] Having completed his dissertation on The Boundaries of Connecticut, in 1882 Bowen was the first doctoral candidate to receive a Ph.D. in history.

The following year, her veil was exhibited at the World's Fair in the city and is now at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

The daughter of Marie Atwater (née Loomis) and John Wentworth, she died on July 10, 1935.

[6] Bowen was the father of Roxana Wentworth Bowen (1895–1968), who married William Stephen Van Rensselaer in 1917, divorced in 1919, and in 1945, she married Sir George Gordon Vereker (1889–1976), the UK Ambassador to Finland and Uruguay, brother-in-law of John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886–1946).

He had known intimately so many leaders of thought and action for half a century, that his conversation was filled with highly interesting reminiscence.

In 1887, he served on the Committee on the Centennial Celebration of the Inauguration of George Washington as President of the United States as secretary.