Biography

03/04/1813 - 11/03/1893

BOWER, Thomas, a Representative from Juniata and Union Counties; born, March 4, 1813 in Union County, Pa.; deputy sheriff, Union County; farmer; elected, delegate, Union County Democratic Convention (1848, 1870); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1857 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1858 term; unsuccessful campaign, United States Congress (1866); appointed, deputy assessor, Internal Revenue, Snyder County (1866); died, November 3, 1893 in Middleburg, Snyder County, Pennsylvania; interred, Glendale Cemetery, Middleburg, Snyder County, Pennsylvania.