The New International Encyclopædia/Bowker, Richard Roger

BOWKER, (1848&mdash;). An American editor and writer. He was born in Salem, Mass., and graduated at the College of the City of New York in 1868. He was a leader in the Independent Republican or &lsquo;Mugwump&rsquo; movement in 1879. His publications include Work and Wealth; Economics for the People; Copyright: Its Law and its Literature, and the Annual American Literary Index.