Dr. John Bower

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth	~1823-1824	PA
1st Marriage			Mary E. Giltner d. between 1865 -1870
2nd Marriage			Ella Unknown (b. OH, 1838); 1st married to Unknown Lockmiller(b. VA)
Death	1880-1900	Guthrie Co, IA
Burial		Salem Lutheran Cemetery

Ancestry chart segment

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

Children

Children with Mary E. Giltner:

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Rebecca Catherine Bower	F	~1848			Unknown Plain
Louisa H. "Lou" Bower	F	~1849			Unknown Undegraff
Patterson Giltner Bower	M	1851
John M. Bower	M	1853
Mary E. Bower	F	1855
Saurena V. Bower	F	1857-58
Poetus Bower	M	(by Mar. 1) 1859			d. Mar 1, 1859
Frank Homer Bower	F	Dec 1859 or Jan 1860
Rhodes Bower	M	1864
Edwin L. Bower	M	1865

Children with Ella Unknown (Lockmiller):

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

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

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Mary Lockmiller	F	1867	IA
John R. Lockmiller	M	1871	IA

Places of Residence

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

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 Rebecca C. age 2, daughter Louisa H. age 1; David Bower age 24, potter; Lovina Neely (female) age 29. All born PA
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.
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.
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).
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.
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 TU). 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.	N/A
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.
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).

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.

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.)