George W. Bower and Susan M. Strohecker

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Husband George W. Bower ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 9 Dec 1847 - Cooperstown, Jackson Twp, Venango Co, PA 1
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         Father: Peter Bower (      -Aft 1879) 2 4
         Mother: Catharine Earhardt (      -Abt 1847) 2

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       Marriage: Abt 1870

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Wife Susan M. Strohecker ³

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         Father: Col. Thomas Snyder Strohecker (1829-Aft 1909) 5 6
         Mother: Catharine Bachman (      -      ) 3 5

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General Notes: Husband - George W. Bower

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When he was only two weeks old his mother died, and he was left to be reared by his grandparents, who brought him up on the farm, and sent him to the common schools. At the age of twenty-three he married and lived about one mile south of Bradleytown, on a farm.

1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 631.

2 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1047.

3 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1075.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 881.

5 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 604.

6 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1073, 1075.