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From: "Phil Whitmer" <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] Whitmer -Bowman
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:48:44 -0500
References: <6928893D56F9954097E5786B9868CBC4294790@MAIL.manchester.edu>


Ferne,

I've been looking recently for any information on the father and mother of
my great-great-great grandfather Abraham Whitmer. Wouldn't their names be
in the 1790 census for Lancaster Co.?
Thanks,
Phil Whitmer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Baldwin, A Ferne." <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 4:17 PM
Subject: [BRE] Whitmer -Bowman


> Some gleanings on these two families from the 1917 History of COB in
> Indiana by Otho Winger, etc.
>
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> I think Abraham Whitmer's father may have been Abraham -but do not have
> solid evidence. An Abraham came to Ohio in early 1800s(I think to Miami
> County)
>
> ... Abraham is said to have come in about 1822 at age 16..
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>
>
> Catherine Bowman's father was Jacob...- I think that is solid. He was
> one of the first elders of the church at South Bend.
>
>
>
> Abraham was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania... He and Catherine
> had eleven children.. They came to St. Joseph co. Ind in 1831 and he was
> called to the ministry soon after. He became presiding elder of South
> Bend and he preached in the area for thirty years. He died of typhoid
> fever in 1872, nearly completing his 67th year.
>
>
>
> His son Daniel. B. April 21, 1842 was elected to the ministry in June,
> 1861,,, became elder in Nov. 1879. Married to Elizabeth Inman October
> 29, 1863. She died in 1917. Daniel lived on the farm on which he was
> born except for two years in North Dakota... during which time he helped
> organized the Williston church. He was the presiding elder of North
> Liberty congregation, Northern Indiana for thirty-three years...
>
>
>
> His son, Merrill I was born in 1873, elected to ministry in South Bend
> congregation at age 19.. lived in North Dakota for seven years-was
> ordained there and became presiding elder at North Liberty in 1915. 4th
> in line as elder there,,,, Jacob Bowman, Abraham, Daniel and Merrill
> Whitmer..(North Liberty was first South Bend)
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> >From a History of Montgomery Co, Ohio 1882 Published by W.H. Beers Co
>
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> There are many Bowmans in this books but I do not come out with a clear
> picture of this Jacob Bowman...
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>
> Sent by Ferne Baldwin
>
> Manchester College
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