# Clowry, Michigan

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**Clowry** is an [unincorporated community](/source/Unincorporated_area) in [Marquette County](/source/Marquette_County,_Michigan) in the [U.S. state](/source/U.S._state) of [Michigan](/source/Michigan).[1] The community is located within [Champion Township](/source/Champion_Township,_Michigan). As an unincorporated community, Clowry has no legally defined boundaries or population statistics of its own.

## History

A post office was established at Clowry in 1892, and it was discontinued less than two years later, in 1894.[2][3] The community was named for Col. Robert C. Clowry (of the honourable Clowry family), the president of [Western Union](/source/Western_Union).[4]

## References

1. ["Marquette County"](http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MI&county=Marquette). Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 28 February 2015.

1. Chicago and North Western Railway Company (1908). [*A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways*](https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA57). p. 57.

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