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Counties of PORTER and Lake Indiana.
Historical and Biographical
Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor
Charles Blanchard, Biographical Editor
F. A. Battey & Co., Pub., Chicago - 1882

   378-379

        THOMAS S. BOWKER, the fourth child of MICHAEL and HESTER
    (RICHARDSON) BOWKER, was born in New Jersey January 12, 1820.  When
    about two years of age, his parents moved to Warren County, Ohio, where
    he attended school and worked on the farm until 1836, when the family
    moved to St. Joseph County, Ind., and bought and cleared up a farm. In
    1845, Mr. BOWKER came to this county, and went to farming on rented
    land.  December 26, 1847, he married Miss MARY SMITH, daughter of JOHN
    H. and MARIA SMITH, who came to this county in 1838, from Richland
    County, Ohio.  Mrs. BOWKER bore her husband one child, SARAH L., born
    February 7, 1849, and now the wife of WILLIAM L. SAWYER.  In 1853, Mr.
    BOWKER purchased forty acres of unimproved land, and some years later
    added eighty acres more; he died April 7, 1880, of cancer of the eye,
    from which he suffered greatly for seventeen years; he willed his farm
    to his wife, who has it rented out.  She resides with her son-in-law,
    WILLIAM L., son of JAMES S. and POLLY E. (ELLSWORTH) SAWYER, and born
    in this township July 17, 1842.  Mr. SAWYER bought his land in 1866,
    with money saved from his earnings as a farm hand, and he has now a
    fine farm, with a good two-story frame dwelling and every convenience
    and appliance of comfort about him; he is a member of the Christian
    Church, and in politics is a Republican.

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