Biography

04/08/1780 - 12/29/1837


BOWER, Richard Farmar, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, April 8, 1780 in Philadelphia, Pa.; minister and president, Wesleyan United Societies of Kensington, Philadelphia; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1818-1819 and 1819-1820 terms; died, December 29, 1837 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Kensington Union Cemetery, Kensington (now Philadelphia), Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; removed to Northwood Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.  


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