Edmund Dowse, b. 17 Sept. 1813 in Sherborn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, d. 27 Apr 1905 in Sherborn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, son of Benjamin Dowse & Thankful Chamberlain. He married Elizabeth Reeves Leland (1st wife) on October 2, 1838 in Sherborn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He married Elizabeth Bowditch (2nd wife) on October 10, 1843 in Sherborn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He married Caroline D. Davis (3rd wife) on September 28, 1865 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. (Descendant of Lawrence Dowse, born in Legbourne, Lincolnshire, in 1613, who sailed from Boston, England, for Boston, Massachusetts, about 1630)