Father: John Bowyer (1830-1904)
Mother: Elizabeth Adamson (1832-1914)
Born June 26, 1857, in Tippecanoe County, Indiana.Died 1939, at Stark, Kansas.
Spouse: Martha A. Cunningham (1861-1936)
Married December 19, 1880, at Walnut, Crawford County, Kansas.
William moved with his parents from Indiana to Louisa County, Iowa, near Cairo, as an infant. About 1870, the family moved to Crawford County, Kansas.
Children:
- M John Henry Bowyer (1882-1953)
- M William Victor Bowyer (1886-1965)
- M James Franklin Bowyer (1886-1965)
- M Paul Riley Bowyer (1895-1983)