Bowers, William V

Bowers, William V.

a Protestant Episcopal clergyman of the diocese of Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia, Feb. 13, 1805. He graduated at the Virginia Theological Seminary, and was ordained by bishop Moore in 1834. After a rectorship of twenty years in St. Martin's Parish, Hanover County, Va., he officiated in Lewiston, New Milford, and Great Bend, Pa., and latterly, in his native city. He died at Olney, June 6, 1880. See Whittaker, Almanac and Directory, 1881.