Talk:Bennet Dowler

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Notability[edit]

I think Insertcleverphrasehere‬ is right to question notability on this item. I don't find him in Dictionary of American Biography or the 1920 Encyclopedia Americana. All I find in Google is an obituary. He does have a somewhat longer (than NIE which I used here) biography in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. The article on The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal sources biographical information from Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. Two tertiary sources, an obit and a journal article. He seems a bit on the margin. Give me a few days. I will transcribe the ACAB article and incorporate it here, and look through other Wikisource encyclopedias. The link in The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal was what inspired me to make an article out of the NIE material. I didn't check DAB as I usually do, but the charge on my laptop was running low. I'm working outside my public library these days. I hope working inside public libraries comes back into fashion. Library Guy (talk) 14:30, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I find him in The American Cyclopædia. This is by the same publisher as ACAB and is just an earlier version of the ACAB article, and NIE kind of reads like a distillation of ACAB. He doesn't show up in any of the other Wikisource encyclopedias that I can see. Library Guy (talk) 21:41, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

So my conclusion is that there are two independent and substantial sources of information for this person (not including the obituary). The subject seems notable to me, but I will leave it to someone else to remove the banner or whatever. Thanks for your interest. Library Guy (talk) 19:24, 31 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]