United States mathematician and astronomer noted for his works on navigation (1773-1838)

Usage examples of bowditch.

Fallis Jared Bowditch and his sister Lisa came to our office on a fine summer afternoon, toting a human skull in a Pottery Barn shopping bag.

So Sweeney and I agreed to take the case and see what we could come up with in the ten days before Poppa Bowditch returned.

Lisa Bowditch opened her purse and pulled out a fat Montblanc pen and a checkbook with a mauve corduroy cover.

He took himself down to the police station to try to wangle his old cop buddies into letting him look at the old Bowditch missing person file.

I began to look into the background of Matthew Bowditch, recently retired father to Lisa and Jared, owner of trunks filled with skulls.

I learned that Poppa Bowditch was born in 1922, the second son of a prosperous New England shoe manufacturer.

By 1960 Poppa Bowditch had himself a family, a thriving career, and solid professional reputation.

The last mention of Bowditch in the newspapers was a couple of years old.

What Sweeney learned was this: Dora Bowditch went missing eighteen years earlier and nobody had a clue what might have happened to her.

The friend who was waiting to meet her in Connecticut called Poppa Bowditch, who called the local police, who called the Connecticut police.

The police spent some time trying to see if Dora Bowditch might have had a reason to disappear.

I guess none of the Bowditch kids ever had to earn their allowance by doing lawn chores.

About the time Matthew and Dora Bowditch became grandparents for the first time, Dora underwent a sort of personality change.

Park worked together and over the course of a few years they turned the backyard of the Bowditch estate into something remarkable.

Sweeney and I assured Bowditch we knew how kids are, although neither of us have any.