Why Kip Dowd is on this page

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James Joseph Dowd (February 16, 1889 – December 20, 1960) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the 1910 Pittsburgh Pirates in one game on July 5, 1910. He pitched two innings and gave up four runs, all unearned. He attended the College of the Holy Cross and played in the minor leagues from 1911 to 1915. He was the grandfather of actress Ann Dowd.

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Sources

• Wikipedia — article.
• Wikidata Q6414571.

Heritage notes

Family root: diaspora-likely.

The directory threads Kip 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.