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Obituary - New York
 
New York Times 5-31-1950,
     William Averill Stowell, author and retired educator, died on Monday night in 
	 Roosevelt Hospital,[New York] after a long illness, at the age of 68.  
	 He resided at 325 East Seventy-Ninth Street and at Vero Beach Fla. Born in Appleton, Wis., 
	 he was the son of William Henry Harrison Stowell and Mrs Emma C. Averill Stowell.  
	 He received a A.B. degree from Princeton University in 1904, studied at the Sorbonne, Paris, 
	 in 1906-7, and received a PhD from John Hopkins University in 1908. Dr Stowell was 
	 Professor of Romance Languages at Randolph-Macon Woman's College in 1908-09 and then at 
	 Amherst College until 1920.  In 1918 he was attached to the Military Intelligence Section 
	 of the Army in New York.
     Between 1920 and 1925 Dr Stowell went on several big-game hunting and photography trips to 
	 British Columbia.  In the Twenties and Thirties he was research adviser to the Buffalo Museum 
	 and field associate in geography there.
     His book, "Old French Titles of Respect" was published in 1908.  Dr Stowell wrote also many 
	 magazines articles on French historical and literary subjects.  He was also the author of a 
	 Western novel, "The Wake of the Setting Sun," 1923, and two detective novels, 
	 "The Mystery of the Singing Walls," 1925, and "The Marston Murder Case," 1930.
     Dr Stowell was a member of the Modern Language Association of America, Loyal Legion, 
	 Phi Beta Kappa, and Camp Fire Club of America.  His first wife, the former Miss Mabel Gardner, 
	 whom he married in 1904, died in 1943.  In 1944 he married Mrs Edith de Greve, who survives 
	 together with two sons, Eldon Stowell of Greenwich, Conn., and Dr Averill Stowell of Tulsa, Okla.