Willard Fox Dowd
Abstract
Willard Fox Dowd was born August 12, 1870 in Hartford, Michigan. He would attend Kalamazoo College and graduate with the class of 1897. He married fellow 1897 graduate Muriel Annette Massey. Together, the couple sailed to Assam, India in 1900 to serve as missionaries under the direction of the American Baptist Missionary Union. They served in India from 1900-1907, and again from 1914-1920. He would have to return to the United States on account of illness. Tragically, Willard F. Dowd would never fully recover and died December 11, 1923.