Henry Francis Bowers
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Henry Francis Bowers (1837-1911) was the founder of the American Protective Association in Clinton, Iowa. It was staunchly anti-Catholic.
[edit] Secondary Scholarly Sources
- Bennett, David H. The Party of Fear: From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History (1988), ISBN 0807817724.
- Brown, Ira V. Review of Donald L. Kinzer, An Episode in Anti-Catholicism: The American Protective Association (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1964), Pennsylvania History, April 1966.
- Lipset, Seymour Martin and Earl Raab. The Politics of Unreason: Right Wing Extremism in America, 1790-1970 (1970), ISBN 0060126477.
[edit] Primary sources
- Humphrey J. Desmond, "The American Protective Association" Catholic Encyclopedia (1911)
- Congressional Record (Washington, October 31, 1893)
- Traynor, in North American Review, volume clix (New York, 1887)