John MOWERS

MOWERS, STROPP, STROUP, SIZER, KENT, GOODSELL

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/2/2013 at 11:10:04

JOHN MOWERS, farmer and stock raiser, section 31, Lake Township. The subject of this sketch has been identified with the interests of Wright County since the year 1874. He is a native of New York, born in Oneida County April 7, 1844; a son of David and Susan (Stropp) Mowers, natives of New York. The father was a son of Abraham Mowers, who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and was one of the early settlers of the Mohawk Valley; the mother was a daughter of George and Margaret Stropp, also early settlers of the Mohawk Valley. The father of our subject was a blacksmith by trade. At the age of fifteen our subject commenced to make a living for himself; he first worked on a farm for $4.50 per month and continued to work out by the month until he. came to Iowa. He was married November 8, 1871, to Miss Henryetta C. Sizer, a native of Oneida County, New York, and a daughter of Deveraux and Caroline (Kent) Sizer, of Germany and Scotch ancestry. In the spring of 1874 our subject emigrated to Wright County, where in company with his brother-in-law, Lewis Goodsell, he had previously purchased 200 acres of wild land. After arriving here he began to improve his land and to make for himself a home. He has a good house and other farm buildings and 147 acres of land in a high state of cultivation. Mr. and Mrs. Mowers are the parents of seven children, viz.: Burton J., Anice, Arthur D., Byron H., Guy Q., Kay D. and Gormon [Gomer?]. Our subject has served in many local offices of trust and responsibility. Politically he affiliates with the Democratic party.

Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Hamilton and Wright Counties, Iowa, 1889, p. 526