Monk Fowler

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Name: Monk Fowler
Alias: Mark/Monk Holmgren
Birth Name: Charles John Holmgren
Hometown: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Birthplace: Biloxi, Mississippi, USA
Height: 168cm
Pro Boxer: Record

Early in his career, Monk Fowler fought under the name of Charles Holmgren.

According to the World War I Draft Registration database on Ancestry.com, there was a Charles John Holmgren, a cigar dealer, who was born on November 4, 1895, in Biloxi, Mississippi, and lived in Sacramento, CA. At the time, he had a wife and a child.

He is in the 1940 census in San Francisco: he is at the Letterman General Hospital "Army part" (perhaps as a patient), and his profession is listed as Boxing Instructor for the US Army.