Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Gower, Peter January 18, 1801 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Centre Township
p. 335 & 336 

Peter Gower, deceased, was born in Lynchburgh, Va., Jan. 18, 1801. He left his 
native city for Somerset County, Pa., where he remained till he grew to 
manhood. He then went to Maryland, where he was married to Eliza Chaney, and 
to them were born two children---William H., and Mary E., wife of John A. 
Shadle. In the spring of 1834 he came to Wayne ° County, Ind., and bought a 
farm about two miles south of Centreville, where he farmed till 1857. He then 
sold his farm and bought the place now occupied by William H. Gower. His death 
occurred in July, 1882, and his wife died in 1866. His son William H. was born 
in April, 1831, in Maryland. He came to Wayne County, Ind., when about three 
years of age, where he was reared. He was married in October, 1866, to Sarah 
F., daughter of John, and Sarah Jones. They have one son---Charles W. Soon 
after his marriage William settled upon his present farm, which contains 192 
acres, most of which is under cultivation.


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