Dr. John Bower

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Date Location Notes Sources
Birth ~1823 [1]
Marriage to Mary E. Giltner [2][3]
Death
Burial Salem Lutheran Cemetery

Ancestry chart segment

                          Generation 5      Generation 6
 
                                             +-- Unknown Bower
                                             |   (????-????)  
                        +-- Dr. John Bower --+
                        |   (????-????)   
                        |
                        +-- Mary Giltner
Sources: [2]

Children

Children with Caroline Snyder:

Name Gender Date of Birth Birthplace Spouse Notes Sources
Catherine Bower F ~1848 [1][2]
Louisa H. "Lou" Bower F ~1849 [1][2]
Poetus Bower M 1859 [2]
Rhodes Bower M 1864 [2]


John Bower M [2]
Mary Bower F [2]
Giltner Bower [2]
Frank Bower M [2]

Photos

Gravestone, apparently of Poetus Bower, Salem Lutheran Cemetery, Salem Twp., Clarion Co. PA

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 (illegible)____ usa 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 Cemetery Association Record listing the siblings of David Bower, 1826-1856. transcription
3 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 TU). Lamb image indicates a child's grave. Under the lamb is inscribed "(Dr?/Of?) 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.
4 Personal correspondence from Elizabeth Wilson Williams.
N/A
5 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 parents. The household is headed by a John Trainer and his wife Elizabeth. He 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.
1880 census ia carroll carroll dist 32 pg 27.jpg

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, 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.)
1880 census pa venango jackson pg 15.jpg
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