BIO:  Christian BOWMAN, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Carroll Township, Pg 85

CHRISTIAN BOWMAN, son of John and Martha Bowman, of East Lampeter Township, 
Lancaster County, was born July 26, 1811, and was brought to Monaghan Township, 
this county, at the age of four years, in 1815.  He was reared on the home farm 
until 1832, when he learned the cooper’s trade, at which he worked eleven years.  
In 1843 he began farming in Monaghan Township on Jacob Coover’s place, remained 
two years and then bought 125 acres near Filey’s Church, on which he lived until 
1869, when he came to Carroll Township and bought a thirty-five-acre tract, on 
which he erected a new dwelling, in which he now resides.  In 1834 he married 
Susan, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Coover, of Monaghan Township.  This lady 
died in April, 1852, having borne her husband twelve children, of whom six – twin 
girls and four boys – still survive.  In 1853 Mr. Bowman married Margaret, 
daughter of Frederick and Margaret Asper, and to this union was born one son – 
Frederick – who died at the age of twenty months and eight days.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Bowman are members of the Union Reformed Church at Filey’s.  Mr. B. is a large 
stockholder in the Harrisburg & Potomac Railroad.