Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Mower, George 1846 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  George Mower, a leading contractor and builder of Spring Hill, is a native of
the Buckeye State. He was born in Wayne county, Ohio, May 3, 1846, and is a son
of George and Lydia (Hershey) Mower. George Mower, the father, was a native of
Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and was one of the early settlers of Wayne
county, Ohio. He was a successful man of his day and became wealthy and one of
the prominent men of northern Ohio. He died in 1862. His wife, Lydia Hershey,
was a daughter of Abraham Hershey, a pioneer of Stark county, Ohio. George
Mower, whose name introduces this review, was one of a family of seven children.
He grew to manhood, surrounded by the pioneer conditions of Wayne county, Ohio,
under conditions that develop resourcefulness and self-reliance. His preliminary
education was obtained in a pioneer log school house. When the Civil war came on
he was a mere boy, only fifteen years of age, but even at that early age he
enlisted in the Ohio State militia, but was too young to enter the regular
service. However, two years later, when lie was seventeen years old, he enlisted
as a private in Company D, One hundred and Sixty-ninth regiment, Ohio infantry,
and was mustered into service at Cleveland, Ohio, in the spring of 1864. His
regiment was immediately sent to Arlington Heights, near Washington, D. C, to
relieve a Pennsylvania regiment that had been stationed there for two years and
nine months. After four months' and four days' service, they were returned to
Cleveland and were mustered out. At the close of the war he returned to school
and received a good education. He was married in 1870 and removed to
Marshallville, Ohio, where he took up carpenter work and thoroughly mastered
that trade, and for a time worked in the capacity of foreman there when he
engaged in contracting and building, and during his career as a builder there he
erected some of the finest residences in that city. In 1884 he came to Kansas
with his family and located at Spring Hill and for five years was engaged in
farming and also followed contracting, and since 1889 has devoted himself
entirely to contracting and building, and during that time has erected some very
fine buildings in Spring Hill and vicinity which stand as monuments to his
ability as a workman. To Mr. and Mrs. Mower have been born seven children: Isie
married Thomas McVey, Miami county, Kansas; Forest resides in Johnson county,
Kansas; Eva married James Cuddeback, Johnson county, Kansas; Annie resides at
home; Elsie married T. P. Duffield; George, Kansas City, Mo.; and Ray, who
resides in Johnson county. Mr. Mower is a member of the Grange and a stockholder
and director in the Grange store at Spring Hill, and is a stockholder in the
Spring Hill Banking Company. Politically he is a Republican and takes an active
part in politics and at one time was a candidate for sheriff of Johnson county.

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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


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