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Arthur James Towers

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25 Jan 1823 - 19 Aug 1901

  • OCCUPATION: Teacher
  • BIRTH: 25 Jan 1823, London, England
  • DEATH: 19 Aug 1901, Montevideo, Uruguay
Father: James Towers
Mother: Phoebe Rowe

Family 1 : Mary Duncan Dick
  • MARRIAGE: 29 Aug 1849, St Andrew's Scotch Presbyterian Church, Buenos Aires
  1.  Mary Harriet Towers
  2. +James Towers
  3.  Phoebe Towers
  4. +Peter Campbell Towers 
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 _James Towers _______|
| (.... - 1836) m 1822|
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|--Arthur James Towers 
|  (1823 - 1901)
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|                      _Thomas Rowe ________|
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|_Phoebe Rowe ________|
  (1805 - 1876) m 1822|
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                      |_Phoebe Vinal _______|
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Arthur James Towers arrived at 13 y.o. in 1836 to Buenos Aires, with his mother, Phoebe Rowe, then a widow, and her sister.

The mother of Phoebe Rowe, her siblings, and her stepfather, John Alexander, were already in Argentina since 1825. In 1836 Phoebe married John Thompson. A few years later Arthur James Towers was a teacher at the Saint Andrew Scottish School. He married in 1849 Mary Duncan Dick, also a teacher in the same school. Later the Towers moved to Montevideo. He established there the firm Bell Towers & Co.

Source: Maxine Hanon, Diccionario de Britanicos en Buenos Aires