Helen Hadduck Bowen was the daughter of Joseph Tilton Bowen, a founder of Northern Trust Company, and Louise deKoven (1859-1953), an heiress who worked for 60 years for Jane Addams' Hull House in Chicago and donated the 72-acre Joseph Bowen County Club in Waukegan where Hull House children spent summers.
Helen Bowen married William McCormick Blair, a Yale graduate and founder of William Blair & Company investment bankers. She lobbied against smoking. He was a life trustee of The Art Institute. The Blair family lived at 1416 N. Astor in Chicago, Crabtree Farm in Lake Bluff, IL (designed by David Adler, and summered at Bar Harbor, Maine.
Helen and William Blair had four children: Edward McCormick Blair, Helen (who died young in a horse-back riding accident and for whom a chapel at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago is named), William McCormick Blair, Jr. (who served as an Ambassador to Denmark 1961-1964 and was first General Director of the Kennedy Center) and Bowen Blair.
Helen Bowen married William McCormick Blair, a Yale graduate and founder of William Blair & Company investment bankers. She lobbied against smoking. He was a life trustee of The Art Institute. The Blair family lived at 1416 N. Astor in Chicago, Crabtree Farm in Lake Bluff, IL (designed by David Adler, and summered at Bar Harbor, Maine.
Helen and William Blair had four children: Edward McCormick Blair, Helen (who died young in a horse-back riding accident and for whom a chapel at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago is named), William McCormick Blair, Jr. (who served as an Ambassador to Denmark 1961-1964 and was first General Director of the Kennedy Center) and Bowen Blair.
Helen Hadduck Bowen was the daughter of Joseph Tilton Bowen, a founder of Northern Trust Company, and Louise deKoven (1859-1953), an heiress who worked for 60 years for Jane Addams' Hull House in Chicago and donated the 72-acre Joseph Bowen County Club in Waukegan where Hull House children spent summers.
Helen Bowen married William McCormick Blair, a Yale graduate and founder of William Blair & Company investment bankers. She lobbied against smoking. He was a life trustee of The Art Institute. The Blair family lived at 1416 N. Astor in Chicago, Crabtree Farm in Lake Bluff, IL (designed by David Adler, and summered at Bar Harbor, Maine.
Helen and William Blair had four children: Edward McCormick Blair, Helen (who died young in a horse-back riding accident and for whom a chapel at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago is named), William McCormick Blair, Jr. (who served as an Ambassador to Denmark 1961-1964 and was first General Director of the Kennedy Center) and Bowen Blair.
Helen Bowen married William McCormick Blair, a Yale graduate and founder of William Blair & Company investment bankers. She lobbied against smoking. He was a life trustee of The Art Institute. The Blair family lived at 1416 N. Astor in Chicago, Crabtree Farm in Lake Bluff, IL (designed by David Adler, and summered at Bar Harbor, Maine.
Helen and William Blair had four children: Edward McCormick Blair, Helen (who died young in a horse-back riding accident and for whom a chapel at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago is named), William McCormick Blair, Jr. (who served as an Ambassador to Denmark 1961-1964 and was first General Director of the Kennedy Center) and Bowen Blair.
Bio by: Rommy Lopat
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