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Title: Ancient and modern Germantown, Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hotchkin, Samuel Fitch, 1833-1912
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., P. W. Ziegler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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tlie bridge, heated by the sun so as to be warm to the touch, we read in alarge square brown stone, the figures 1884, and long to see the first rude logthat spanned the humble stream. Still, the passing water cart is a refresh-ment of civilization on this June daj^, and the new days are in some respectssuperior to the old ones. THE GOWEN FAMILY. James Gowen, the father of James E. Gowen and Franklin B. Gowen, wasan Irishman, born at Newtownstewart, county Tyrone, Ireland, on the 17th ofMarch, A. D. 1790. He was educated at the Academy of Strabane, afterleaving school was tutor in a private family for two years, and came toAmerica on reaching the age of twenty-one years. He entered the counting-house of the late Henry Pratt, Philadelphia, and in a short time engaged inbusiness as a shipping merchant and made a voyage to Ireland in 1817 in aship of which he was part owner. In 1827 he suffered during the panic thenprevailing and subsequently engaged in business as a grocer, and afterward
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) 11 wm 7 1 ::!,-\- \ Jfe I m «i ^4 MOUNT AIRY. 389 as a wine merchant, at the corner of Third and Dock streets, and was laterthe senior partner in the firm of Gowen, Jacobs & Co., on Dock street, nearThird. Mr. Gowen, in 1827, married Marj, daughter of Joseph Miller, ofMount Airy (a descendant of Sebastian Miller, whose ancestor cdme to Americawith Pastorius), and subsequently purchased the Miller estate, which still re-mains in possession of his family. After his marriage, Mr. Gowen resided onThird street, opposite St. Peters Church; but in 1834 moved to Mount Airy,and took up his residence in the old Miller house which was built in 1792and is now occupied by the family of his son, James E. Gowen, deceased. Mr.Gowen was a Democrat in politics, but during the United States Bankstruggles he ran on the Anti-Jackson ticket for Congress in 1828 and 1832,and was defeated by the regular Democratic nominee. On one of theseoccasions the names of the four candidates for the four Congress

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