Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 304
PAUL MOWRY

Paul MOWRY, a resident of section 15, of Washington Township, forms the subject of this sketch. He was born in Stephenson County, Ill., February 24, 1853, and at the age of fourteen years left home and worked out by the month on a farm, making his home in that county until the autumn of 1877, and then came to Shelby County, Iowa, where he farmed, as a renter, until the spring of 1882, and then bought a farm on section 22, of Washington Township, consisting of eighty acres of improved land. Here he remained until the spring of 1889, when he sold and bought his present place, consisting of a quarter section of well-improved land, provided with a frame house 14x24 feet, with a kitchen the same size.

Our subject was married February 24, 1880, to Miss Anna MILLER, by whom three children were born, Flora G., Clara G. and Ira B.

Mr. MOWRY was overtaken by affliction July 22, 1886, when his wife closed her eyes in death. She was born in Warren County, Iowa, in 1860.

For his second wife our subject married Mrs. Nettie LOCKE (whose maiden name was Nettie MILLER). They were married in Harrison County, June 7, 1888, and are the parents of one child, Anna L.

John MOWRY, the father of our subject, was born in Pennsylvania about 1821, and was killed in the great Civil War.

Lydia (BRUBAKER) MOWRY, the mother, was born in Pennsylvania about 1823, and is now living in Stephenson County, Ill. They were the parents of twelve children, our subject being the fifth child.

Politically, Mr. MOWRY is identified with the Democratic party.

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