When John Bower was born on 15 January 1842, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, George William Bower, was 27 and his mother, Catharine Parker, was 18. He married Mary Augustus Cox on 20 November 1865. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Lancaster, Grant, Wisconsin, United States in 1860 and Boscobel, Grant, Wisconsin, United States in 1870. He died on 2 January 1890, in Blanchard, Page, Iowa, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Blanchard, Page, Iowa, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Iowa is the 29th state.
The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
English: from Middle English bour, bor(e), bur(e) (Old English būr) ‘cottage, chamber, bower’, denoting either a ‘cottager’ or ‘chamber-servant’, or a topographic name for someone who lived in a small cottage, or a habitational name from any of various minor places called from this word in Somerset, Sussex, Essex, and Peeblesshire. Compare Bowerman and Bowring .
English: variant of Bowyer , for a maker or seller of bows or an archer, from Middle English bowyere, an agent derivative of Old English boga ‘bow’.
Americanized form of German Bauer ‘peasant’ or ‘neighbor, fellow citizen’, or of its Dutch cognate Bouwer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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