Résumé

Bowers was not a professional architect, but occupied a number of important political posts in early San Diego and California as State Assemblyman, Collector of the Port of San Diego, State Senator and Member of Congress; the LAPL California Index card for Bowers stated his birthdate as 1834; "The late Senator Bowers (1835-1917) designed and built the Horton House, located where the U.S. Grant Hotel now stands, and also the Florence Hotel, later known as the Robinson and as the Casa Loma." (See Journal of San Diego History, 04/1956, vol. 2, no. 2 See website.)

(LAPL information gives a 1834 birthdate);