JOHN BOWERS, farmer, Sec. 14; P. O. Montfort; was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1835; came to the United States in 1854, lived one year in the State of New York and then went to Galena, Ill., where he lived several years. He then went to Platteville, where he was married to Charlotte Williams, born in Cornwall, England, and daughter of Thomas Williams, who came to Grant Co. in 1847. Have seven children - John Albert, Rosena, James, William S., Franklin J., Elizabeth A. and Minnie. Settled on present farm from Iowa Co., in 1878.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.