Bower, Benjamin F.

BOWER, CLINE, COX

Posted By: Debbie Nash (email)
Date: 11/18/2002 at 13:17:50

From the FAIRFIELD LEDGER, April 16, 1902, Page 3, col. 3.

ANSWERED LAST ROLL CALL.
Benjamin F. Bower, one of the wealthiest and best known farmers of Round Prairie township, died at his home one and a half miles south east of Glasgow Tuesday morning. He had been ill only ten days. Mr. Bower was a native of Adams County, Penn., and was born August 17th 1835. He grew to manhood there and came to Iowa in 1850, living first in the vicinity of Winfield. He was a soldier in the Civil War, a member of Company G, Eleventh Iowa Infantry, and was for more than a year a prisoner at Andersonville, that place of horrors. After his return from the army, January 28th, 1869, he was married to Ruth Cline, who survives him. They were the parents of ten children, six of whom are now living - Mrs. Frank Cox, Belle, John, Clarence, Walter and Lester Bower. Mr. Bower was a strong man of excellent character, a brave soldier and a good citizen. He was forceful in his manner, most industrious in his habits, possessed of much financial ability, and at the time of his death was one of the largest landholders in Jefferson County. He had been a factor in the business and social life of his township for many years, and will be greatly missed there. The remains will be interred tomorrow at Glasgow.