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==NOT A DIRECT ANCESTOR==
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''Dr. John Bower'' is not in my direct ancestry. He is 1 step removed in the following ways:
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* Brother of [[David Bower]] ; Uncle of [[Olive Samantha Bower]]
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* Son of [[Unknown Bower]]
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John Bower was the oldest son in a family of nine children.  His parents' names are as yet unknown to us, but they were born in PA. They apparently settled in or near Salem Twp., Clarion Co., as the names of all their children were known and recorded in the records of the Salem Lutheran cemetery association  (Only one son, David Bower & wife Caroline, and one grandson Poetus, son of John Bower appear to be buried there).  John was born in about 1823, possibly in Clarion County. In about 1847-48, aged 24-25, he married Mary Giltner, also born in PA.  She was age 21 years. At some point John Bower studied medicine and took up practice as a physician in the Salem Twp. area. [[Biography, Dr. John Bower|See complete biography]] 
 
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{| class="wikitable"  
 
!  || Date || Location || Notes || Sources
 
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| '''Birth'''  ||~1823 || || || <sup class="reference">[1]</sup>
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| '''Birth'''  ||12 Apr 1823   ||PA || || <sup class="reference">[1][3][4][12]</sup>
 
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| '''Marriage''' || || ||to Mary E. Giltner  ||<sup class="reference">[2][3]</sup>
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| ''' 1st Marriage''' || || || Mary E. Giltner<br>born ~1826<br>died between 1865 -1870 ||<sup class="reference">[6][1]</sup>
 
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| '''Death''' ||  || || || <sup class="reference"></sup>
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| ''' 2nd Marriage''' || || || Ella Unknown (b. OH, 1838); <br>1st married to Unknown Lockmiller(b. VA)  ||<sup class="reference">[4][10]</sup>
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| '''Death''' ||12 Dec 1892 ||Guthrie Co, IA || || <sup class="reference">[12]</sup>
 
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| '''Burial''' || ||Salem Lutheran Cemetery || ||<sup class="reference"></sup>
 
| '''Burial''' || ||Salem Lutheran Cemetery || ||<sup class="reference"></sup>
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  Sources: <sup class="reference">[2]</sup>
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                            (~1826-~1865/70)
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  Sources: <sup class="reference">[6]</sup>
  
 
=Children=
 
=Children=
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Children with [[Caroline Snyder]]:
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Children with Mary E. Giltner:
 
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{| class="wikitable"  
 
! Name || Gender || Date of Birth || Birthplace || Spouse || Notes || Sources
 
! Name || Gender || Date of Birth || Birthplace || Spouse || Notes || Sources
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|Catherine Bower  || F ||~1848  || ||  || || <sup class="reference">[1][2]</sup>
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|Rebecca Catherine Bower  || F ||~1848  || ||Unknown Plain || || <sup class="reference">[1][2][3][6]</sup>
 
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|-
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| Louisa H. "Lou" Bower    || F ||~1849 || || || || <sup class="reference">[1][2]</sup>
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| Louisa Helen "Lou" Bower    || F ||Baptised 21 July 1849 Salem Lutheran Church || ||Unknown Undegraff || || <sup class="reference">[1][2][3][6][11]</sup>
 
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| Poetus Bower     || M ||1859 || ||  || || <sup class="reference">[2]</sup>
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|Patterson Giltner Bower   ||M ||1851;<br> baptised 12 Dec 1851 Salem Lutheran Church || ||  || || <sup class="reference">[2][6][9][11]</sup>
 
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| Rhodes Bower    || M ||1864  || ||  || || <sup class="reference">[2]</sup>
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| John Monroe Bower ||M ||8 Oct 1852;<br>baptised 1854, Salem Lutheran Church ||  || || ||<sup class="reference">[2][6][11]</sup>
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| Mary E. Bower    ||F ||1855 || ||<br> George W. Rinestein of Wellsville OH on 24 June 1890<sup class="reference">[11]</sup> OR possibly Chalmer Karnes(see Conjecture section)  || || <sup class="reference">[2][3][6]</sup>
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| Saurena V. Bower    ||F ||1857-58 || ||  ||  || <sup class="reference">[2][3]</sup>
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| Poetus Bower    || M ||(by Mar. 1) 1859  || ||  ||d. Mar 1, 1859 || <sup class="reference">[6][7]</sup>
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| Frank Homer Bower    ||F ||Dec 1859 or Jan 1860 || ||  || || <sup class="reference">[2][3][6]</sup>
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| Rhodes Bower    || M ||1864  || ||  || || <sup class="reference">[6]</sup>
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| Edwin L. Bower    || M ||1865  || ||  || || <sup class="reference">[3]</sup>
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|}
  
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Children with Ella Unknown (Lockmiller):
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! Name || Gender || Date of Birth || Birthplace || Spouse || Notes || Sources
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|-
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|David Bower  || M ||1877  || IA||  || || <sup class="reference">[4]</sup>
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|}
  
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Children of Ella Unknown (Lockmiller)'s 1st marriage:
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{| class="wikitable"
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! Name || Gender || Date of Birth || Birthplace || Spouse || Notes || Sources
 
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| John Bower ||M || || ||  || || <sup class="reference">[2]</sup>
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| Charlotta Lockmiller  || F ||1856  || IA||  ||birth order uncertain;<br>may be oldest child || <sup class="reference">[10]</sup>
 
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| Mary Bower    ||F || || ||  || || <sup class="reference">[2]</sup>
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| Unknown Lockmiller  || ?||   || IA||  || || <sup class="reference">[5]</sup>
 
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| Giltner Bower    ||   || || ||  || || <sup class="reference">[2]</sup>
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|Mary Lockmiller  || F ||1867  || IA||  || || <sup class="reference">[4]</sup>
 
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| Frank Bower    || M || || ||  || || <sup class="reference">[2]</sup>
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|John R. Lockmiller  || M ||1869  || IA||  || || <sup class="reference">[4]</sup>
 
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=Places of Residence=
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! Location || Dates || Notes || Sources
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|PA  || b. ~1823-24 || || <sup class="reference">[1][3][4]</sup>
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|Richland Twp., Clarion Co. PA  || by 1850 || || <sup class="reference">[1]</sup>
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|Salem Twp., Clarion Co. PA  || by 1860 ||may reflect a township<br>boundary line change || <sup class="reference">[2]</sup>
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|Center Twp, Guthrie Co, IA  || by 1870  || || <sup class="reference">[3]</sup>
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|Jackson Twp, Guthrie Co, IA; Guthrie Center, Valley Fork  || by 1880  || || <sup class="reference">[3]</sup>
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[[Image:Gravestone Peotus Bower.jpg|170px|left|thumb|Gravestone, apparently of Poetus Bower, Salem Lutheran Cemetery, Salem Twp., Clarion Co. PA]]<br style="clear:both;"/>
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[[Image:Gravestone Peotus Bower.jpg|170px|left|thumb|Gravestone, apparently of Poetus Bower, Salem Lutheran Cemetery, Salem Twp., Clarion Co. PA]][[Image:Gravestone Dr John Bower Brethern Cem guthrie Co IA.jpg|90px|left|thumb|Gravestone Dr John Bower, Brethern Cemetery, Guthrie Co. IA]]
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|'''U.S. Census 1850 Clarion Co. PA''', Richland Twp., pg 31.  Date of census 7 Aug 1850. Lines 11-16 show ''John Bower'' age 27, physician, Mary E. age 24, daughter (illegible)____ usa C. age 2, daughter Louisa H. age 1; [[David Bower]] age 24, potter; Lovina Neely (female) age 29. All born PA
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|'''U.S. Census 1850 Clarion Co. PA''', Richland Twp., pg 31.  Date of census 7 Aug 1850. Lines 11-16 show ''John Bower'' age 27, physician, Mary E. age 24, daughter Rebecca C. age 2, daughter Louisa H. age 1; [[David Bower]] age 24, potter; Lovina Neely (female) age 29. All born PA
 
|[[Image:1850 census pa clarion richland pg 31.jpg|50px|left]]
 
|[[Image:1850 census pa clarion richland pg 31.jpg|50px|left]]
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! '''2'''
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| '''1860 United States Federal Census''', Salem Twp, Clarion Co, PA, page 11.  Census dated 29 June 1860.<br>  Lines 14-22: John Bower, 31, physician, $1100 real, $800 personal property; Mary E., 34; Rebecca C, 12; Louisa H., 11; Patterson G., 9; John M., 7; Mary E., 5; Saurena V., 3; Homer E., 6 months.  All b. PA.  The five older children are attending school.
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| [[Image:1860 census pa clarion salem pg 11.jpg|50px|center]]
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! '''3'''
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| '''1870 United States Federal Census''', Center Twp, Guthrie Co, IA, page 19.  Census dated 5 July, 1870.<br>Lines 27-33:  John Bower, 46, physician, $1000 real, $1000 personal property; R.K. (R.C.?), 22, teacher; Louisa, 21; Mary, 15; Sarena V., 12; Frank H, 10; Edwin L., 5.  All born PA.
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| [[Image:1870 census ia guthrie center pg 19.jpg|50px|center]]
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! '''4'''
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| '''1880 United States Federal Census''', District 77, Jackson Twp, Guthrie Co, IA, page 28. Guthrie Center, Valley Fork.  Census dated 5-6 June, 1880.<br>Lines 45 -49: John Bower, 57, physician, born PA (parents born PA); Ella, 42, wife, keeping house, b. Ohio, (parents born PA); Mary Lockmiller, 13, step-dau., at school, b. Ohio,( father b. VA, mother OH); John R. Lockmiller, 9, step-son, b. Iowa,(father b. VA, mother b. OH), attended school; David Bower, 3, son, b. IA, (father b. PA, mother b. OH).
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| [[Image:1880 census ia guthrie jackson dist 77 pg 28.jpg|50px|center]]
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! '''5'''
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| '''1900 United States Federal Census''', District 66, Valley Twp, Guthrie Co, IA, page 2.  Census dated 2 June 1880.<br>Lines 90-91: Ella Bower, 62, widow, b. Jan. 1838, 4 children, all living, b. OH as were parents; Mary Lockmiller, 32, dau., b. Jan 1868, b. OH, father VA, mother OH.  Both can read write and speak English.
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| [[Image:1900 census ia guthrie valley dist 66 pg 2.jpg|50px|center]]
 
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| '''[[Cemetery Association Record: David Bower|Cemetery Association Record]]''' listing the siblings of [[David Bower]], 1826-1856.   
 
| '''[[Cemetery Association Record: David Bower|Cemetery Association Record]]''' listing the siblings of [[David Bower]], 1826-1856.   
 
| [[Cemetery Association Record: David Bower|transcription]]
 
| [[Cemetery Association Record: David Bower|transcription]]
 
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| '''Gravestone at Salem Lutheran Cemetery''', Salem Twp., Clarion Co. PA, transcribed Sept 1995 by E. W. Williams.
 
| '''Gravestone at Salem Lutheran Cemetery''', Salem Twp., Clarion Co. PA, transcribed Sept 1995 by E. W. Williams.
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* (Illegible top line, , center letters seem to be TU). Lamb image indicates a child's grave.  Under the lamb is inscribed "(Dr?/Of?) J. & M. E. Bower, Died Mar. 1, 185(9)".<br>From the date, it appears to be the grave of Peotus Bower who must have died at birth or in infancy.
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* (Illegible top line, , center letters seem to be TUS B). Lamb image indicates a child's grave.  Under the lamb is inscribed "(Of?/Dr?) J. & M. E. Bower, Died Mar. 1, 185(9)".<br>From the date, it appears to be the grave of Peotus Bower who must have died at birth or in infancy.  He does not appear in the 1860 census.
 
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| '''Personal correspondence''' from [[Elizabeth Ann Wilson|Elizabeth Wilson Williams]].
 
| '''Personal correspondence''' from [[Elizabeth Ann Wilson|Elizabeth Wilson Williams]].
 
| <div width="*" style="text-align: center">'''N/A'''</div>
 
| <div width="*" style="text-align: center">'''N/A'''</div>
 
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| '''1880 United States Federal Census''', District 32, Carroll, Carroll Co, IA, page 27.  Census dated 10 June, 1880. <br>Line 2: Giltner Bower, physician, boarder, b. PA as were parents.
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| '''1880 United States Federal Census''', District 32, Carroll, Carroll Co, IA, page 27.  Census dated 10 June, 1880. <br>Line 2: ''Giltner Bower'', 32, physician, boarder, b. PA as were his parents. He is a boarder in a household headed by a John Trainer and wife Elizabeth.  John Trainer is from Canada with parents from Ireland.  The remainder of the individuals in the house are boarders from various locations.  This would appear to have been a boarding house.
 
| [[Image:1880 census ia carroll carroll dist 32 pg 27.jpg|50px|center]]
 
| [[Image:1880 census ia carroll carroll dist 32 pg 27.jpg|50px|center]]
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! '''10'''
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| '''1870 United States Federal Census''', Jackson Twp, Guthrie Co, PA, page 4.  Census dated 26 July, 1870.<br>Lines 22-25: ''Ella Lockmiller'', 31, born OH; Charlotta, 14, born OH; Mary F., 2, born OH; John R., 8 months, born IA.<br>This corresponds to widow Ella Lockmiller before marriage to John Bower. Since her youngest child is 8 mos. old, her 1st husband died within the last 2 years (i.e. 1868-1870).
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! '''11'''
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| '''Record books for Salem Lutheran Church''', Salem Twp., Clarion Co. PA. This collection  of church record books was in the keeping of then pastor Kathleen Anderson, and was partially extracted in March 1995 by [[Elizabeth Ann Wilson]] Williams and [[Nancy Elizabeth Beals]] Walls. Transcriptions were incomplete due to time limitations and the quantity of material.  Note #Bowers of unknown connection.<br>'''I.  Untitled, dated "Feby 20th 1846 ''', an old narrow handwritten record book. <br> '''Church members''' (alphabetical listing):
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* Bower, [[Dr. John Bower|John]], Mary, David . 
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* #Bower, Caroline, Rebecca.<br>'''Baptisms''':
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* 1849 July 21  [[Dr. John Bower|Bower, John]] & wife - Louesa Hellen
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* 1851 Dec 12  [[Dr. John Bower|Bower, J. W.]],  Patterson Giltner
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* 1854  [[Dr. John Bower|John Bower]] & Mary E. - John Monroe b. Oct 8th 1852<br>'''Communion Recipients'''
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* [[Dr. John Bower|John Bower]] (listed in 1849, 1853, 1854-61); on 6 Nov 1853 listed with Mary, David, William, Elizabeth (1849-54).
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<br>'''III. "Salem Congregation Lutheran Church, Clarion County Pennsylvania"''' (A bound hardback volume, old).<br>'''Church Members'''
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* #George F. Bower  restored  1 Feb 1885 - dropped.
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* #Jennie S. Bauer  confirmed 10 Apr 1887 - gone.
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* Mary E. Bauer  certificate  9 Sept 1888 - by letter Aug 1891<br>'''Marriages'''
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* #George F. Bauer and Ollie Linn, residence "near Salem Pa.", 27 Sept 1888
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* George W. Rinestein and Mary E. Bower, reside Wellsville, O. & Salem, Pa.,  24 June 1890.
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|[[Records of Salem Lutheran Church, partial transcription 1995]]
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| '''Gravestone Dr. John Bower, Brethren Cemetery, Guthrie County IA''', FindAGrave Memorial ID no, 10964988<br>Brethren Cemetery located at Panora, Guthrie County Iowa.
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*John Bower 12 Apr 1823-12 Dec 1892,
 
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=Source Notes=
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* For the 1870 U.S. Census, no Bower (soundex - all spellings) can be located in Clarion Co. PA by the Ancestry.com search engine.
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* Salem Lutheran Cemetery Assoc. records indicates an "infant daughter" in addition to Lou, Catherine, and Mary. That wording suggests she died as an infant. Census indicates Saurina lived to at least age 12, so there may have been a 5th daughter.  Or the contributor to that record may merely have remembered another girl child born, i.e. Saurina.
 
=Conjecture=
 
=Conjecture=
 
*Since so many families is the Clarion-Venango Counties border area migrated from Lehigh County, it is worth noting that [[Michael Brey]], (whose daughter married Olive Bower's son), owned land in Upper Milford township, (in then Northampton, later Lehigh County) in 1806, near land of a Henry Bauer.    Also a land transaction by one Joseph Klein in October of 1865 mentions land of the "late John Bower', in Salisbury township.
 
*Since so many families is the Clarion-Venango Counties border area migrated from Lehigh County, it is worth noting that [[Michael Brey]], (whose daughter married Olive Bower's son), owned land in Upper Milford township, (in then Northampton, later Lehigh County) in 1806, near land of a Henry Bauer.    Also a land transaction by one Joseph Klein in October of 1865 mentions land of the "late John Bower', in Salisbury township.
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<br>* 1880 U. S. census, Jackson Twp., Venango Co. PA, pg. 15. Date of census: 12th & 14th June 1880.  Lines 43-45: Chalmer Karnes, age 28, farmer; wife Mary E. Karnes, age 28; "no name" Bower, age 7/12, female, relationship: "her neace".  All & all parents born PA.<br>If the niece of Mary E. unknown (Karnes) is a Bower, she could possibly be Mary Bower, dau. of John Bower. She would be born about 1852. (Or she could be someone whose sister married a Bower.) <br>[[Image:1880 census pa venango jackson pg 15.jpg|50px|left]]
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<br>* 1880 U. S. census, Jackson Twp., Venango Co. PA, pg. 15. Date of census: 12th & 14th June 1880.  Lines 43-45: Chalmer Karnes, age 28, farmer; wife Mary E. Karnes, age 28; "no name" Bower, age 7/12, female, relationship: "her neace".  All & all parents born PA.<br>If the niece of Mary E. unknown (Karnes) is a Bower, Mary E. could possibly be Mary Bower, dau. of John Bower. She would be born about 1852. (Or she could be someone whose sister married a Bower.) <br>[[Image:1880 census pa venango jackson pg 15.jpg|50px|left]]<br style="clear:both;"/>
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*  The list of children of Dr. John Bower given in the Salem Lutheran Cemetery Assoc. record matches those names found in the census except for two.  In the Lutheran records, youngest son Edwin L. Bower is not named, nor is daughter Saurena V. Bower. Instead they list an "infant daughter", presumably meaning she did not survive. Saurina however appears in the 1870 census in Iowa, age 12.

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[edit] NOT A DIRECT ANCESTOR

Dr. John Bower is not in my direct ancestry. He is 1 step removed in the following ways:

John Bower was the oldest son in a family of nine children. His parents' names are as yet unknown to us, but they were born in PA. They apparently settled in or near Salem Twp., Clarion Co., as the names of all their children were known and recorded in the records of the Salem Lutheran cemetery association (Only one son, David Bower & wife Caroline, and one grandson Poetus, son of John Bower appear to be buried there). John was born in about 1823, possibly in Clarion County. In about 1847-48, aged 24-25, he married Mary Giltner, also born in PA. She was age 21 years. At some point John Bower studied medicine and took up practice as a physician in the Salem Twp. area. See complete biography

Date Location Notes Sources
Birth 12 Apr 1823 PA [1][3][4][12]
1st Marriage Mary E. Giltner
born ~1826
died between 1865 -1870 		[6][1]
2nd Marriage Ella Unknown (b. OH, 1838);
1st married to Unknown Lockmiller(b. VA) 		[4][10]
Death 12 Dec 1892 Guthrie Co, IA [12]
Burial Salem Lutheran Cemetery

[edit] Ancestry chart segment 

                          Generation 5      Generation 6
 
                                             +-- Unknown Bower
                                             |   (????-????)  
                        +-- Dr. John Bower --+
                        |   (????-????)   
                        |
                        +-- Mary Giltner
                            (~1826-~1865/70)
Sources: [6]

[edit] Children

Children with Mary E. Giltner:

Name Gender Date of Birth Birthplace Spouse Notes Sources
Rebecca Catherine Bower F ~1848 Unknown Plain [1][2][3][6]
Louisa Helen "Lou" Bower F Baptised 21 July 1849 Salem Lutheran Church Unknown Undegraff [1][2][3][6][11]
Patterson Giltner Bower M 1851;
baptised 12 Dec 1851 Salem Lutheran Church 		[2][6][9][11]
John Monroe Bower M 8 Oct 1852;
baptised 1854, Salem Lutheran Church 		[2][6][11]
Mary E. Bower F 1855
George W. Rinestein of Wellsville OH on 24 June 1890[11] OR possibly Chalmer Karnes(see Conjecture section) 		[2][3][6]
Saurena V. Bower F 1857-58 [2][3]
Poetus Bower M (by Mar. 1) 1859 d. Mar 1, 1859 [6][7]
Frank Homer Bower F Dec 1859 or Jan 1860 [2][3][6]
Rhodes Bower M 1864 [6]
Edwin L. Bower M 1865 [3]

Children with Ella Unknown (Lockmiller):

Name Gender Date of Birth Birthplace Spouse Notes Sources
David Bower M 1877 IA [4]

Children of Ella Unknown (Lockmiller)'s 1st marriage:

Name Gender Date of Birth Birthplace Spouse Notes Sources
Charlotta Lockmiller F 1856 IA birth order uncertain;
may be oldest child 		[10]
Unknown Lockmiller  ? IA [5]
Mary Lockmiller F 1867 IA [4]
John R. Lockmiller M 1869 IA [4]


[edit] Places of Residence

Location Dates Notes Sources
PA b. ~1823-24 [1][3][4]
Richland Twp., Clarion Co. PA by 1850 [1]
Salem Twp., Clarion Co. PA by 1860 may reflect a township
boundary line change 		[2]
Center Twp, Guthrie Co, IA by 1870 [3]
Jackson Twp, Guthrie Co, IA; Guthrie Center, Valley Fork by 1880 [3]

[edit] Photos

Gravestone, apparently of Poetus Bower, Salem Lutheran Cemetery, Salem Twp., Clarion Co. PA
Gravestone Dr John Bower, Brethern Cemetery, Guthrie Co. IA


[edit] Sources

Ref. Num. Description Image of original
1 U.S. Census 1850 Clarion Co. PA, Richland Twp., pg 31. Date of census 7 Aug 1850. Lines 11-16 show John Bower age 27, physician, Mary E. age 24, daughter Rebecca C. age 2, daughter Louisa H. age 1; David Bower age 24, potter; Lovina Neely (female) age 29. All born PA
1850 census pa clarion richland pg 31.jpg
2 1860 United States Federal Census, Salem Twp, Clarion Co, PA, page 11. Census dated 29 June 1860.
Lines 14-22: John Bower, 31, physician, $1100 real, $800 personal property; Mary E., 34; Rebecca C, 12; Louisa H., 11; Patterson G., 9; John M., 7; Mary E., 5; Saurena V., 3; Homer E., 6 months. All b. PA. The five older children are attending school.
1860 census pa clarion salem pg 11.jpg
3 1870 United States Federal Census, Center Twp, Guthrie Co, IA, page 19. Census dated 5 July, 1870.
Lines 27-33: John Bower, 46, physician, $1000 real, $1000 personal property; R.K. (R.C.?), 22, teacher; Louisa, 21; Mary, 15; Sarena V., 12; Frank H, 10; Edwin L., 5. All born PA.
1870 census ia guthrie center pg 19.jpg
4 1880 United States Federal Census, District 77, Jackson Twp, Guthrie Co, IA, page 28. Guthrie Center, Valley Fork. Census dated 5-6 June, 1880.
Lines 45 -49: John Bower, 57, physician, born PA (parents born PA); Ella, 42, wife, keeping house, b. Ohio, (parents born PA); Mary Lockmiller, 13, step-dau., at school, b. Ohio,( father b. VA, mother OH); John R. Lockmiller, 9, step-son, b. Iowa,(father b. VA, mother b. OH), attended school; David Bower, 3, son, b. IA, (father b. PA, mother b. OH).
1880 census ia guthrie jackson dist 77 pg 28.jpg
5 1900 United States Federal Census, District 66, Valley Twp, Guthrie Co, IA, page 2. Census dated 2 June 1880.
Lines 90-91: Ella Bower, 62, widow, b. Jan. 1838, 4 children, all living, b. OH as were parents; Mary Lockmiller, 32, dau., b. Jan 1868, b. OH, father VA, mother OH. Both can read write and speak English.
1900 census ia guthrie valley dist 66 pg 2.jpg
6 Cemetery Association Record listing the siblings of David Bower, 1826-1856. transcription
7 Gravestone at Salem Lutheran Cemetery, Salem Twp., Clarion Co. PA, transcribed Sept 1995 by E. W. Williams.
  • (Illegible top line, , center letters seem to be TUS B). Lamb image indicates a child's grave. Under the lamb is inscribed "(Of?/Dr?) J. & M. E. Bower, Died Mar. 1, 185(9)".
    From the date, it appears to be the grave of Peotus Bower who must have died at birth or in infancy. He does not appear in the 1860 census.
8 Personal correspondence from Elizabeth Wilson Williams.
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9 1880 United States Federal Census, District 32, Carroll, Carroll Co, IA, page 27. Census dated 10 June, 1880.
Line 2: Giltner Bower, 32, physician, boarder, b. PA as were his parents. He is a boarder in a household headed by a John Trainer and wife Elizabeth. John Trainer is from Canada with parents from Ireland. The remainder of the individuals in the house are boarders from various locations. This would appear to have been a boarding house.
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10 1870 United States Federal Census, Jackson Twp, Guthrie Co, PA, page 4. Census dated 26 July, 1870.
Lines 22-25: Ella Lockmiller, 31, born OH; Charlotta, 14, born OH; Mary F., 2, born OH; John R., 8 months, born IA.
This corresponds to widow Ella Lockmiller before marriage to John Bower. Since her youngest child is 8 mos. old, her 1st husband died within the last 2 years (i.e. 1868-1870).
11 Record books for Salem Lutheran Church, Salem Twp., Clarion Co. PA. This collection of church record books was in the keeping of then pastor Kathleen Anderson, and was partially extracted in March 1995 by Elizabeth Ann Wilson Williams and Nancy Elizabeth Beals Walls. Transcriptions were incomplete due to time limitations and the quantity of material. Note #Bowers of unknown connection.
I. Untitled, dated "Feby 20th 1846 , an old narrow handwritten record book.
Church members (alphabetical listing):
  • Bower, John, Mary, David .
  • #Bower, Caroline, Rebecca.
    Baptisms:
  • 1849 July 21 Bower, John & wife - Louesa Hellen
  • 1851 Dec 12 Bower, J. W., Patterson Giltner
  • 1854 John Bower & Mary E. - John Monroe b. Oct 8th 1852
    Communion Recipients
  • John Bower (listed in 1849, 1853, 1854-61); on 6 Nov 1853 listed with Mary, David, William, Elizabeth (1849-54).


III. "Salem Congregation Lutheran Church, Clarion County Pennsylvania" (A bound hardback volume, old).
Church Members

  • #George F. Bower restored 1 Feb 1885 - dropped.
  • #Jennie S. Bauer confirmed 10 Apr 1887 - gone.
  • Mary E. Bauer certificate 9 Sept 1888 - by letter Aug 1891
    Marriages
  • #George F. Bauer and Ollie Linn, residence "near Salem Pa.", 27 Sept 1888
  • George W. Rinestein and Mary E. Bower, reside Wellsville, O. & Salem, Pa., 24 June 1890.
Records of Salem Lutheran Church, partial transcription 1995
12 Gravestone Dr. John Bower, Brethren Cemetery, Guthrie County IA, FindAGrave Memorial ID no, 10964988
Brethren Cemetery located at Panora, Guthrie County Iowa.
  • John Bower 12 Apr 1823-12 Dec 1892,

[edit] Source Notes

  • For the 1870 U.S. Census, no Bower (soundex - all spellings) can be located in Clarion Co. PA by the Ancestry.com search engine.
  • Salem Lutheran Cemetery Assoc. records indicates an "infant daughter" in addition to Lou, Catherine, and Mary. That wording suggests she died as an infant. Census indicates Saurina lived to at least age 12, so there may have been a 5th daughter. Or the contributor to that record may merely have remembered another girl child born, i.e. Saurina.

[edit] Conjecture

  • Since so many families is the Clarion-Venango Counties border area migrated from Lehigh County, it is worth noting that Michael Brey, (whose daughter married Olive Bower's son), owned land in Upper Milford township, (in then Northampton, later Lehigh County) in 1806, near land of a Henry Bauer. Also a land transaction by one Joseph Klein in October of 1865 mentions land of the "late John Bower', in Salisbury township.

* 1880 U. S. census, Jackson Twp., Venango Co. PA, pg. 15. Date of census: 12th & 14th June 1880. Lines 43-45: Chalmer Karnes, age 28, farmer; wife Mary E. Karnes, age 28; "no name" Bower, age 7/12, female, relationship: "her neace". All & all parents born PA.
If the niece of Mary E. unknown (Karnes) is a Bower, Mary E. could possibly be Mary Bower, dau. of John Bower. She would be born about 1852. (Or she could be someone whose sister married a Bower.)
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  • The list of children of Dr. John Bower given in the Salem Lutheran Cemetery Assoc. record matches those names found in the census except for two. In the Lutheran records, youngest son Edwin L. Bower is not named, nor is daughter Saurena V. Bower. Instead they list an "infant daughter", presumably meaning she did not survive. Saurina however appears in the 1870 census in Iowa, age 12.
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