C. D. W. BOWER
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C. D. W. BOWER. This name will be at once
recognized by our readers as that of a prominent business man of
Catasauqua and a member of a family long represented in
Pennsylvania. Full information concerning his parentage and
ancestral history may be gleaned from the biographical sketch of
his father, Hon. George Bower, presented on another page of this
volume.
The next to eldest in a family of ten children, the subject
of this sketch was born in Lehighton, Carbon County, Pa.,
January 17, 1856. Brought by his parents to Catasauqua at the
age of three years, he was reared to manhood in this place, and
has here made his permanent home. After graduating from the high
school in 1873, he was apprenticed to learn the butcher's trade
under the tutelage of his father. He soon gained a thorough
knowledge of the details of the business, and in 1878 purchased
the shop of his father. At that time they had no markets in the
city, the meat being delivered by wagons from the
slaughter-house.
An arrangement so inconvenient as this could not be continued
permanently, and it was not long before Mr. Bower, with the
energy which is one of his chief characteristics, established
two markets in
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Portrait and Biographical Record of Lehigh, Northampton and
Carbon Counties, Pennsylvania. Containing Biographical Sketches
of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the Counties,
Together with Biographies and Portraits of all the Presidents of
the United States. Chicago, Chapman Publishing Co., 1894; |
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