Hancock-Jefferson County OhArchives Biographies.....Bower, John 1803 - 
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Author: Warner & Beers (1886)

   JOHN BOWER, retired farmer, P. O. Gilboa, Putnam County, was born in Bedford
County, Penn., April 30, 1803, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Foust) Bower,
natives of Pennsylvania, and of German descent. They were each twice married.
The family to which our subject belonged consisted of seven children. Daniel
Bower, who was a butcher, came to Springfield, Jefferson Co., Ohio, in 1806. The
subject of this sketch, who never attended school, cleared land, made rails and
worked by the day. In 1837 he came to this county, settled in Liberty Township,
took up land, and resided there until 1841, when he came to Blanchard Township,
bought eighty acres of land from Alfred Hampton, and has since resided here. Mr.
Bower was united in marriage, in 1826, with Elizabeth Bysel, daughter of Philip
Bysel, and of Pennsylvania-Dutch extraction. Their union has been blessed with
ten children: Henry, married, farming in Kansas; Jonathan, a carpenter, married,
residing in Shawtown, this county; A. J., a merchant in Kansas, married; Philip
B., a carpenter, married, residing in Illinois; Lydia, wife of John Haddox, of
this county; Elizabeth, wife of Frank Brooks, of Ottawa (he is working on
railroad bridges); Daniel, married, farming on 120 acres of land in Blanchard
Township, this county; Wesley, a carpenter and farmer, married, residing in
Kansas; John (deceased), was in Company K, Sixty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
and was killed at the battle of Chicamacomico; and Sarah Ann, wife of Moses
Fir-min. Mrs. Bower departed this life in 1879. Our subject is a member of the
German Baptist Church, in which he has been deacon for thirty years. In politics
he is a Democrat.

Additional Comments:
Book Title: History Of Hancock County
Blanchard Township




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