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EPHRAIM CULP MOWER, butcher, post office Turtle Creek, was born in Philadelphia in 1844. His parents, Jacob and Mary Jane Mower, of German and English descent, respectively, died when he was young, and he was reared by an uncle, Ephraim Hollis. After the age of fourteen years, young Mower cared for himself, under his uncle’s’ kind tutelage. He spent three years on a farm, and before he was eighteen years of age enlisted in Co. I, 82d P. V. With this regiment he served until the close of the rebellion, re-enlisting at the end of the first three years, and, as a member of the Army of the Potomac saw hard service at the battles of Bull run and Cold Harbor. During the greater part of his service Mr. Mower was detailed as teamster, his uncle, above mentioned, being also engaged in the same capacity. After the war Mr. Mower settled in Allegheny county, and was employed as a miner, and in various ways. In 1876 he opened a meat market at Turtle Creek, and sold out two years later. In 1881 he again began the same business at Newtown, and has continued there since. He owns two dwellings and his place of business, and still keeps up association with military friends through the G. A. R. In June, 1877, Mr. Mower married Mary Jane, daughter of Jackson and Margaret Ann (Dobbins) Edwards. Mrs. Edwards died when her daughter was an infant. Mr. Edwards is now a resident of Newtown, engaged in mining coal. He was a soldier in an Illinois regiment during the civil war, in the southwest. Mrs. Mower was born in Carroll county, Mo., and is the mother of four children: Maggie Jane, Francis Edward, William Jackson and George Jacob.