This is my first post to this list. Here are my Bowers (with my direct line in all caps). Information is taken from a family Bible, and from letters my great great grandfather Uriah wrote to my grandfather. 1. Michal (?) Bower (Bowers) Sailed to America (Baltimore) from Rotterdam around 1742. May have been from Holland, or possibly from Germany 2. Jacob BOWERS b. 11 Oct 1754 in Maryland or Penn. d. 28 Dept 1825 Uniontown, Ohio. Married Anna ROHRER, daughter of John ROHRER of Switzerland. 3. children of JACOB BOWERS and ANNA ROHRER, (birth order uncertain) Cristina Jacob Anna JOHN ROHRER BOWERS, b. June 1794 Bedford Co. PA , d: 23 May 1851 Uniontown Ohio, married to BARBARA MYERS born: 25 Oct 179 Freeberg PA died: 22 Mar 1868 Catherine Frederick Barbara Elizabeth Sally 4. (children of JOHN ROHRER BOWERS and BARBARA MYERS): Elijah F. Bowers born: 7 Jan 1819 Stark Co. Ohio,died: 1 Dec 1842 Uniontown Ohio Anna E. Bowers born: 25 August 1823 died: 18 Nov 1904 Bromfield OH Jacob M. Bowers born: 24 Dec 1825 died: 29 April 1857? (or 1851--hard to read writing) Charles W. Bowers born: 9 Sept 1831 died: 22 Oct 1860 Amanda M. Bowers born: 11 Jan, 1834 died: 3 Apr 1904 URIAH ROHRER BOWERS born: 5 Feb 1837 in Uniontown, Ohio died: 10 Apr 1926 in California William P. Bowers born: 21 May 1839 died: 5 Sep 1882 John Seraphim Bowers born: 6 Jul 1844 died: 6 april 1869 5. (children of URIAH ROHRER BOWERS) HARRY CLAY BOWERS Born: 1867 died: 1931, married MATTIE DAVIS WIlliam Herbert Bowers born: 1873 died: 1905 6. (children of Harry Clay Bowers and Mattie Davis) HARRY DAVIS BOWERS