Isaiah Bowman was born in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada on December 26, 1878. He was an
American geographer, educated at both Harvard and Yale. Bowman was the director of
the American Geographical Society from 1915 to 1935. He was also a chief territorial
advisor during World War II. His book The New World: Problems
in Political Geography, published in 1921, is one of his notable works.
Bowman passed away in Baltimore in 1950.
