BIO: Charles MOWRY, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 334.
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  MOWRY, CHARLES, was born in Litchfield, Providence county, R. I., in 
1777.  He received a classical education, and came to Pennsylvania 
about 1800, and engaged in teaching.  In 1808 he began the publication 
of the Temperate Zone, at Downingtown, Chester county.  This was 
subsequently changed to the American Republican, and Mr. Mowry 
continued its publication until 1821, when he came to Harrisburg in the 
interest of William Findlay, who was a candidate for governor of 
Pennsylvania for a second term, and became editor of the Pennsylvania 
Intelligencer, previously the Harrisburg Republican.  This paper he 
eventually disposed of to Gen. Simon Cameron, who had been associated 
with him as co-partner in its management, in order that he might assume 
the duties of canal commissioner, to which he had been appointed by 
Governor Shulze.  During his career as editor he acquired considerable 
celebrity as a political writer, and exercised a marked influence upon 
the policy of his party.  He died at Harrisburg, July 29, 1838.  He 
married, March 31, 1812, Mary Richmond, daughter of George Richmond, of 
Sadsbury township, Chester county.  She died March 28, 1862, aged 
seventy-six years.