Nowers, Elizabeth Putnam

Name:

Nowers, Elizabeth Putnam

Title:

Graduate, UNH, BA in History, 1991
Town Librarian, Nottingham, N.H., 1975-83
Selectwoman, Nottingham, 1976-82

Other Names:

Putnam, Elizabeth

Born:

12/24/1946

Birthplace:

Boston, MA

Died:

2000

Death Location:

Somersworth, NH

Residence:

Bedford, MA -- raised
Nottingham, NH -- farmer
Somersworth, NH

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Farmer -- household farm in Nottingham, NH
Assistant Manager at Litte Professor Book Store -- Dover, NH
Historical Interpreter, Strawbery Banke -- Portsmouth, NH, over a 9-year period.

Father:

Nowers, Edward Stanley (1913-)

Mother:

Nowers, Helen Rosemary Emery (1915-)

Relations:

Life partner -- Wayne Sanborn

Spouse:

Kotler, Frank Barrett (1944-)

Children:

Kotler, Katrina (b.1969; m. Timothy Owen 1991)

Notes:

M. Frank Barrett Kotler (b.1944), 1965.
Passionate about history, particularly women's history.
Became ill from terminal Leukemia, late 1990s.
Provenance of Sideboard, bequest of Elizabeth Putnam Nowers (2002.3): Made for Dudley Carleton Kimball (1800-1887), by his uncle Michael Carleton. Descended to Dudley's daughter, Hetta Kimball Southard (b. 1832), then to Hetta's son, Charles Southard (b. 1866), then to Charles's daughter, Josephine Southard Sanborn (1906-1970), then to Roger Wells, son of Josephine's cousin. Purchased in 1993 from Roger Well's estate by Helen Nowers (b.1915; granddaughter of Hetta Kimball Southard); then immediately transferred to her daughter, Elizabeth Putnam Nowers (1946-2000).