from the New Jersey Courier, 25 Oct 1918 John Calvin Bowers, a well known resident of Barnegat, died at his home in that town of Bright's disease on Tuesday morning, Oct 22. He was prominently known all along the shore. In the 70s as a young man he was clerk for the late John Aumack in the store now owned by E.H. Berry, next to the bank, Water Street, Toms River. Later he moved to Forked River, where he married the daughter of David Stout Parker. From Forked River he went to the city and spent some years, and had been living for the past few years at Barnegat.