Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Bower (and variant spellings) famlies who mainly descended from Stephen Gottlieb Bauer and Maria Glock, and their sons John L. Bowers and David Bower. They left Wurtemberg, Germany in 1838, and settled in Pennsylvania. Around 1869. In Lena, Illinois, David (1842-1932) married Susannah Badger (1846-1893), the daughter of Robert Badger and Susan Shively. They raised their children...

Johannes Bellinger (b.ca.1660) and his family immigrated from the Palatinate of Germany to Herkimer County, New York, where he died after 1725. Descendants and relatives listed lived chiefly in New York, with some living in New England, Michigan, Kentucky, Mississippi and elsewhere.

William Washington Alexander was born 17 February 1777 in Cecil County, Maryland. His parents were William Alexander and Elizabeth Carruthers. He married Lucy Sprague in about 1803, probably in Erie County, Pennsylvania. Her parents were Thomas Sprague and Hannah Cobb. William and Lucy had five children. Lucy died in 1816. William died in 1861 in Marysville, Union County, Ohio. Descendants and relatives lived in Maryland, Ohio, Indiana, California...