Paris A. Bower

NOT A DIRECT ANCESTOR Paris A. Bower is not in my direct ancestry. He is 1 step removed in the following ways: Brother of Olive Samantha Bower Son of David Bower and Caroline Snyder

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth	Sept 1853
Marriage			To Maria Rugh daughter of Sarah unknown & unknown Rugh
Death
Burial

Ancestry chart segment

 Generation 4         Generation 5        Generation 6
 
                                      +-- Unknown Bower
                                      |   (????-????)
                  +-- David Bower ----+
                  |   (1825-1866)     |
 Paris A. Bower --+                   +-- Unknown
 (1853-????)      |                       (????-????)
                  +-- Caroline Snyder
                      (1831-1905)

Sources:

Children

(6 children with Maria Rugh)

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
unknown Bower	?	expect before 1881		To
Minta/Minnie Bower	F	Sept 1882		Jake Minnich	Had no children
Effie Bower	F	Mar 1885		Arthur Kaltenborn	Children: Ethel Kaltenborn(m. Clarence Muntz); Arthur Kaltenborn,Jr.; Jack Kaltenborn.
John Bower	M	Dec 1887		To
Soy/Loy Bower	M	Nov 1891		To
Arthur Bower	M	Mar 1900		Mattie unknown	Children: ZoeBower, Zora Bower

Places of Residence

Location	Dates	Notes	Sources
expect Salem Twp Clarion Co PA	born 1853
Oakdale, Allegheny Co. PA	by 1900

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	1900 United States Federal Census, Oakdale borough, Allegheny Co. PA, enumeration district 464, pg. 7 of Ancestry.com Date of census 5 June 1900. Lines 2-9: Bower, Paris A., white male born Sept 1853, age 46, married 20 yrs., occupation oil well pumper. Rents house. Maria, wife, born june 1856, age 43, married 20 yrs., has had 6 children, all 6 are living. Children: daughter Minta born Sept 1882, age 17; daughter Effie born Mar 1885, age 15; son John born Dec 1887, age 12; son Soy (sic;expect Loy) born Nov 1891, age 8; son Arthur born Mar 1890 (sic; expect 1900), age 2 months. Sarah Rugh, mother-in-law, born May 1887, age 67, widow, bore 9 children; 4 living. All and all parents born in PA.
3	Cemetery Association Record, Salem Lutheran Cemetery, transcribed Sept. 1991 by Elizabeth Wilson Williams. Records included: Siblings of David Bower, 1826-1856. Caroline Snyder, 1881-1909, wife of David Bower Their children: Paris Bower (m. Maria Rugh); Theresa "Tacy" Bower (m. Peter Sheakley); Olive Bower (m. James Beals); Irvin Bower; Laura Bower (m. [unknown] Tyler).	transcription
4	Research Manuscript of Ella May Beals (Wilson) researched 1975-1985, including personal knowledge and interviews of her siblings Robert Beals and Bertha Beals (Chambers), and of her aunt Mary P. Kline (Fillgrove).

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