Kenneth Kingsley Stowell (1894 - 1969)

Born 30 Apr 1894 in Liberty, New York, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Barbara Tompkins — married 27 Jun 1924 in New York City, New York, United States

Died 19 Jan 1969 at age 74 in San Francisco, California, United States

Biography

New York Times - January 24, 1969, page 47.

Kenneth Kingsley Stowell, former architect, teacher and editor, died Sunday of a heart ailment in San Francisco, where he had lived since his retirement in 1958. He was 74 years old, he formerly lived in Bronxville, N.Y.

Mr. Stowell, a native New Yorker, was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1916, and in 1921 received a master's degree in architecture at Harvard. He was associate professor of architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1924 to 1927.

He was editor of The Architectural Forum from 1927 to 1935, when he became editor of The American Architect and Architecture. For six years beginning in 1936 he was editor of House Beautiful, and from 1942 to 1949 he served as editor-in-chief of the Architectural Record.

In July 1949, Mr. Stowell was named vice president for eastern operations of Giffels & Vallet, Inc., and L. Rossetti, engineers and architects of Detroit. He remained on the editorial board of The Architectural Record.

Surviving are his widow, the former Barbara Tompkins; two daughters, Mrs. Stowell Netherton of New York and Mrs. Allen Kline of San Francisco; a brother William C. of Binghamton, N. Y., and three grandchildren.

Sources

• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=88711872
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~doel/b222.htm