Lynce Crawford Bowling was born on 22 September 1893 in Fannin, MS, to Rasberry B. Bowling and Annie Adams Bowling. He completed high school and college in Mississippi before enrolling at ISC in fall 1916. While at ISC, Bowling served in the Iowa State Agricultural & Mechanical College Federal Service, Medical Enlisted Reserve Corps, the Cadet Corps (Fold3, 2015). He enlisted in the Army on 6 Jan 1918, was on active duty as a Private from 1 October 1918 to 15 November 1918, and was honorably discharged on 1 February 1919. He graduated from ISC with his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 1920. After his Army service, he married Doris Victoria Jackson.
Dr. Bowling served as Head of the Veterinary Department of Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Louisiana, Scotlandville, LA (U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1925). Following that, he worked for two decades at the Carsten Meat Packing House as part of the Bureau of Animal Husbandry, Meat Inspection Division, Field Station Tacoma, WA, ca. 1927-1947 (Bowling, n.d.). He died 26 February 1956 and is buried in the Los Angeles National Cemetery, CA.
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Photo credit: Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine. (1920). Class of 1920. [Photo]. Retrieved from https://cc.cvm.iastate.edu/cc/class-of-1920/
Bowling, Lynce C., Dr. (Doris). (n.d.) Tacoma Public Library Online Digital Collections [Item Description]. Retrieved from https://tacomalibrary.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17061coll12/id/10810/
Fold3. (2015, 26 Feb). Headstone applications, 1925-1963, database and images. Retrieved from https://www.fold3.com/image/319405012?filmstrip=true&terms=lynce,bowling
U.S. Department of Agriculture. (1925, March). List of workers in subjects pertaining to agriculture 1923-24 (Office of Experiment Stations Miscellaneous Circular No. 34). U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Experiment Stations. Retrieved from https://archive.org/stream/listofworkersins34agne/listofworkersins34agne_djvu.txt
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