Columbia-Montour County PA Archives Biographies.....MOWREY, Isaac 1832 - 
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  ISAAC MOWREY, one of the successful and enterprising farmers of Columbia County,
  residing in the section of Montour township, known as Dutch Valley, where he
  owns a tract of fifty-six acres of as fertile land as the county affords, is a
  son of John and Catherine (Wireman) Mowrey, and was born near Danville, Montour
  County, Pa., March 17, 1832.
  
    The paternal great-grandfather of our subject was a native of Germany and came
  to America almost a century and a half ago, locating in Eastern Pennsylvania,
  probably in Montgomery County. His son, Peter Mowrey, the grandfather of our
  subject, was a farmer in Montgomery County for many years, but during his latter
  days was engaged in tilling the soil near Seneca Lake, N. Y. He was the father
  of the following children: Peter; John; Jacob; Joseph; Isaac; Christianna; and
  Elizabeth. They all remained in the state of Pennsylvania excepting Isaac, who
  moved to Michigan, and Joseph, who went to Brown County, Ohio.
  
    John Mowrey, our subject's father, was born in Montgomery County and removed
  to what is now Montour County, then Northumberland, about 1820. He learned the
  trade of a stonemason, but after moving to Montour County he purchased a farm
  one mile east of Danville, which was but partially improved. He built a stone
  and a brick house, which are still standing on the property. He was also engaged
  in mining ore to a considerable extent on his own farm and became a very
  prosperous man for those times. In religious belief he was a member of the
  Reformed Church. He was joined in wedlock to Catherine Wireman, a daughter of
  Jacob Wireman of Montgomery County, and they became the parents of nine sons and
  four daughters, a record of whom is as follows: Jonas, Charles, Mary, William,
  Henry, and Peter, all deceased; Jacob, a resident of Michigan; Isaac, the
  subject of this personal history; John, who lives in Northumberland County;
  Elizabeth, deceased, who was the wife of Dr. B. F. Shultz; Michael S., of
  Michigan; Sarah, the wife of Otis Knapp of Montour County; and Catherine, the
  wife of Michael Breckbill, an ex-sheriff of Montour County.
  
    Isaac Mowrey was reared on the farm and educated in the public schools of his
  native town. As his ancestors were all members of the agricultural class it was
  but natural that he should also chose farming as his life occupation. He was
  engaged in farming until 1851, when he began working in iron ore mines in the
  vicinity, continuing until 1854, a period of three years. He then moved to
  Columbia County and purchased his present excellent farm, about a quarter of a
  mile distant from Grovania, which he has since been engaged in cultivating. He
  is a very industrious man, of careful habits, and during his active life has
  accumulated considerable property. He also owns another farm consisting of 101
  acres of good land in Dutch Valley.
  
    In 1854 Mr. Mowrey chose as his life-companion Eleanore Yost, a daughter of
  the late John G. Yost of Bloomsburg, by whom he had four children: George, a
  farmer of Montour township, who married Elizabeth Lazarus and has four children,
  Guy A., Ursa M, Dora S., Ruth E.; Olevia, who died at an early age; Mary
  Catherine, deceased, who was the wife of D. E. Heberling, by whom she had three
  children, namely,—Elanora, Bertha May, and Pearl E.; and Lloyd Franklin, a
  ticket agent for the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Wilkes-barre, who married Hattie
  R. Bidleman, and has had two children, R. Blair, deceased, and Lloyd Glenn.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  Extracted from:
    
    Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
    Published by 
    Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
  
  
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