BIO: David Bowman, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                              CHAPTER LIX.

                         UPPER ALLEN TOWNSHIP.

563  UPPER ALLEN TOWNSHIP.

  DAVID BOWMAN, farmer, P. O. Mechanicsburg, is a son of Daniel and 
Mary (Smith) Bowman, who were long residents of Pennsylvania; Daniel 
being born in Lancaster County, and his wife in Germany, from which 
country she came with her father and step-mother at an early day.  
After their marriage Daniel Bowman and his wife settled near Lancaster, 
in Lancaster County, Penn., but ten years later moved to Cumberland 
County, and settled four miles southeast of Carlisle, and here two 
daughters, Ann and Mary, were born (Benjamin, David and Abraham were 
born in Lancaster County).  The family subsequently moved to York 
County, just across the line, and there the parents lived and died, 
leaving a large family, of whom Mrs. Annie Weaver, Mrs. Mary Mohler, 
Mrs. Lydia Smith, Daniel and David are yet residents of the county.  
David Bowman married, September 19, 1865, Miss Rebecca Miller, who was 
born in this township, on the farm now owned by Israel Miller.  Her 
parents, Peter and Catharine (Weltmer) Miller, came to the county in 
1832.  They had seven children:  Elizabeth, Susan, Daniel, Mary, Peter, 
Rebecca and Israel (by a former marriage with Elizabeth Weltmer, Peter 
Miller had three children:  John, Catharine and Abraham).  Our subject 
enlisted in Company K, Ninth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, 
September 2, 1861; participated in twenty-three engagements, among 
which were the battles of Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Jackson, 
Atlanta and Raleigh.  In these battles he never received a scratch, 
and, for meritorious conduct, was promoted from the ranks to first 
lieutenant of the company in January, 1863, and served faithfully until 
mustered out July 18, 1865.  Mr. and Mrs. Bowman's only child, Frank, 
was born October 11, 1866, and will complete his education soon, and 
then probably follow in the footsteps of his father as an 
agriculturist.  In 1871 Mr. Bowman purchased his farm of fifty-three 
acres in this township.