Bower, Moses

Bower, Moses a minister of the Evangelical Association, was born in Adams County, Pa., April 28, 1814 He was converted at the age of nineteen, and entered the ministry at the age of twenty-two. At the age of thirty-two he was elected presiding elder. Eleven months and twenty days after this election, in the midst of his usefulness, he was suddenly stricken down with fever, and died. He was a man of prepossessing appearance, of fine talents, and of marvellous pulpit powers. In 1882 a plain and neat chapel was erected to his memory in Stoystown, Somerset Co., Pa. See Evangelical Messenger.