Timothy Joseph Dowd
1915–2014 · County Kerry
Timothy Joseph Dowd (1915–2014) was the deputy chief of New York City Police Department (1940–1978) who led the manhunt.
Why Timothy Joseph Dowd is on this page
Timothy Joseph Dowd (1915–2014) was the deputy chief of New York City Police Department (1940–1978) who led the manhunt to capture David Berkowitz.
He was born in County Kerry, Ireland on May 30, 1915, to Timothy Dowd and Margaret O’Sullivan. He died on December 27, 2014, in Millbrook, New York. He survived by four children; 11 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Sources
- Wikipedia — article.
- Wikidata Q23071218.
Heritage notes
Family root: irish-born-confirmed.
The directory threads Timothy Joseph Dowd back to the Ó Dubhda clan story via the surname-variants reality — the same family carried these spellings as it scattered. See the septs and the diaspora for the wider pattern, or the Clan DNA Project for the genetic connections being mapped now.
