Biography

12/07/1816 - 10/11/1867

BOWER, Dr. Charles, a Representative from Mifflin County; born, December 7, 1816 in Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.; surgeon, second lieutenant, Wayne Guards, Pennsylvania Militia (1848, Mexican War); surgeon, brevet colonel, 35^th Regiment, 6^th Pennsylvania Volunteer Reserves (1861-1864, Civil War); physician; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1858 term; died, October 11, 1867 in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; interred, Newton Hamilton United Methodist Cemetery, Newton Hamilton, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.