The History of the Chillisquaque Church Rev. William Gardner Finney, 1926 (The Mooresburg Church was founded by members of the Chillisquaque Church.) The father of Ephraim and Cyrus Bower was William Bower. Their mother was a Boyer. William Bower went from this section to Berks County. He was a blacksmith and farmer. He lived below Reading, on the Philadelphia Pike. The Rev. Samuel A. Bower, son of Ephraim and Mary (Taylor) Bower, is pastor of the Olivet Presbyterian Church, Harrisburg, PA. He graduated from Lafayette in 1896 and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1901. His pastorates are as follows: Montgomery, 1901-03; graduated from Princeton, after a post-graduate course, in 1904, with the degree of B.D., at the same time receiving M.A. from Lafayette; pastor at Monaca, 1904-9; Johnstown Second, 1909-11; Northminster, Washington, S.C., 1911-19; Harrisburg, since 1919. His wife was Minnie A. Menges of Montgomery. (NOTE: William Bower here mentioned is a son of Jacob Friederich Bower and Susanna Happell. Jacob was the eldest son of Moses Jr. and Barbara Friederich Bower of Amity Twp, Berks Co, PA, and later (with second wife, Barbara Kloss), of White Deer Twp, Northumberland Co, PA.) The Bower ancestor, Moses by name, came to Philadelphia in 1753, and in 1772 purchased a farm in Amity Township, Berks County (purchase date of farm may not be accurate). Most of this land is still in the Bower family, now owned by John Lincoln Bower, head doctor of the P.R.R. Mr. Ephraim Bower is the fifth generation. He was born in 1843. His wife was Mary A. Taylor. They had thirteen children, of whom ten lived to grow up and there are yet living, eight. One of the daughters is married to James Beech, M.D., of Mooresburg, who is located in Williamsport. Another daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ephraim Bower is Bessie, who is teaching Chemistry in college - nine years at Penn State, then at Lake Erie College, Painsville, Ohio, and now at Hood College, Frederick, MD. Mr. Ephraim Bower is one of our oldest citizens. He is the only surviving veteran of the Civil War in that neighborhood. He was in the army in the last year of the war, Company D, 58th Regiment, Pennsylvania. Was at Richmond and Petersburg. One of Mr. Bower's sons, Nathaniel E., was struck by lightening and died June 3, 1904; just promoted by President Roosevelt, First Lieutenant, First Battalion Engineers, at Fort Leavenworth, KS. Another son, Thomas Taylor Bower, was in World War service, in the Navy, engaged at the Proving Ground, near Washington, DC, being Lieutenant, and having taken the flu, developed pneumonia, and died in the hospital at Washington, in October, 1918. Ernest Bower, of the Trustees, is on the mother's side a representative of the Taylor family, of which family, two brothers of Mrs. Ephraim Bower, whose maiden name was Taylor, distinguished a generation ago by their perseverance, working their way through college, the one at Lafayette and the other at Columbia. The latter died only recently, a New York City attorney. The other, William, a graduate engineer, was scalded to death at some public works, many years ago. Mooresburg Church Roll 1927: Bower - Cyrus, Lydia, Ephraim, Mary, Ernest, Pearl, Hazel, Burgess. The Young Men's Bible Class at Mooresburg, Mrs. Stuart Curry, teacher, displayed an Honor Roll of ten names during the World War: Thomas Taylor Bower . . . . Bower won a Gold Star. Those entering the ministry from Chillisquaque - . . . Rev. Samuel A. Bower.