of Summit County, Ohio · documented from the public record
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David Bower
David Bower⚭ Mary Bollinger
childrenWilliam Henry Bower · James Bower · Adeline Bower · David Bower
Source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens
Their story
What the record says
Brought to Ohio at about 18 months old.
Reared in Stark County (Nimishillen Township), pioneer who cleared government land.
A tanner with a farm and tannery.
Fond of travel, spent nineteen years in California in early days.
About age 54 moved with family to Kansas where his wife died.
Died while traveling in Oregon.
Of fourteen children, four survived: William Henry, James (of Michigan), Adeline (Mrs. Studebaker), and David (of Kansas).
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