Biography

12/25/1793 - 08/18/1880


Cambria and Somerset County (1836-1837), Somerset County (1851-1852)

MOWRY, George, a Representative from Somerset County; born, December 25, 1793 in Pennsylvania; publisher, The Somerset Herald and Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Register (1827-1842); elected as an Anti-Mason to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1836-1837 term; farmer; debt collector, Allegheny Township, Somerset County (1846); reelected as a Whig to the House for the 1851 and 1852 terms; died, August 18, 1880 in Center Township, Cedar County, Iowa; interred, Sand Hill Cemetery, Tipton, Cedar County, Iowa.


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