CHARLES MOWDER, farmer, Sec. 5; P. O. Kilbourne; is a native of Mason Co. and was born in Havana Township Oct. 21, 1847; he is the seventh of a family of ten children born to Joseph and Judith (Stroup) Mowder, who were natives of Pennsylvania and came to this State at an early day, locating on land east of Havana, which they entered. Charles remained at home until he married Rebecca Lehr, who was born May 23, 1852, in Sherman Township; her parents were natives of Pennsylvania, the mother born in Bucks Co. and the father in Lehigh Co. Charles has had good educational advantages in addition to those of the common school and is a graduate of the Commercial College at Jacksonville. After his marriage, which occurred Dec. 25,1875, he settled on the land he now occupies and has since been a tiller of the soil; they have one child, Joseph, born June 8, 1878.



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