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BOWER, JACOB. Was born in Stockstadt, Bavaria, Germany, on the river Main, March 31, 1821. When eleven years
of age he, with parents, moved to Maryland, and after three years settled in Knox County, Illinois. Here farming
was followed until 1843, when they took up their abode in Iowa. In 1847 the subject of this sketch crossed the
plains to Oregon. Here he spent eighteen months on the Columbia River, part of the time in the employ of a Columbia
River bar pilot. In April, 1849, Mr. Bowar came to California and engaged in mining until 1853, when he engaged
in dairying near Smiths Flat, Sierra County. This he followed until 1855, when a change was made to stock raising
and farming, which was continued until 1881. In 1857 he came to Napa County and settled where Lower Lake wharf
landing stands, but was driven away from there by the Clear Lake Water Company's dam of 1867 and 1868. In 1867
he settled on his present place, consisting of four hundred and eighty acres, located in Burns Valley. He also
owns about three hundred acres at the Lower Lake landing. Mr. Bower married. March 9, 1855, Miss Clarinda Thomas,
a native of Illinois, by whom he has two living children, Henry T. and Allen V., and has lost two, Sophia and Ada
F.
From:
History of Napa and Lake Counties, California
Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers
San Francisco, California 1881
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