John H. Dower and Belle Sutton

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Husband John H. Dower ^{1 2}

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           Born: 8 Dec 1856 - Venango Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: John Conrad Dower (1829-1910) 1 2 3
         Mother: Clara Barbara Sigworth (1833-1908) 1 2 3

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       Marriage: 1885 2

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Wife Belle Sutton ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1864 - Medina, Medina Co, OH 2
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Children

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1 M Fred S. Dower ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1886 2
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2 F Mary C. Dower ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1890 2
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3 F Helen Dower ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1903 2
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General Notes: Husband - John H. Dower

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He was reared on the farm in his native county until his eleventh year, when his parents moved to Pioneer, Venango County. There he attended the public schools, and later the State Normal School at Edinboro, and the Jamestown Business College at Jamestown, Pennsylvania. For more than thirty years he was engaged as a contractor and driller of oil and gas wells, carrying on a flourishing business. He came to Martinsburg, later called Bruin, Pennsylvania, in 1884, and resided there. He was always deeply interested in matters of concern to the community, but especially so in educational affairs. He was a director on the School Board from the incorporation of Bruin as a borough, and was secretary of that body for a time. He later discharged the duties of treasurer of the board.
He was a Republican in politics, while in religious attachment he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church. Fraternally, he was a prominent Mason, being a member of the Blue Lodge at Chicora, the Chapter at Butler, and of the Commandery at Franklin, Pennsylvania.

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General Notes: Wife - Belle Sutton

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Another source states she was born in the borough of Bruin, Butler County, Pennsylvania.

1 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 730.

2 H. W. Sigworth, M.D., Genealogy of Sigworth-Neely Families (Anamosa, IA: Metropolitan Supply Co., 1921), Pg 38.

3 Michael Coleman(?), The Descendants of David Reyner (Personal research, Web-published, 2012), Pg 4.