. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . , born in 1798, and died in 1851,married Barbara Unger, of Lebanon County, and theirchildren were Sarah, Elizabeth, Susan, J. H., Re-becca L., William B., and Amanda. John H., thesubject of this sketch, received his education in thetownship school, and at Myerstown Academy. Hethen engaged in teaching, at first in the public schools,and later at the academy at Myerstown. In 1862 heraised a company for service in the civil war, and wascommissioned captain of Company C, One Hun
. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . , born in 1798, and died in 1851,married Barbara Unger, of Lebanon County, and theirchildren were Sarah, Elizabeth, Susan, J. H., Re-becca L., William B., and Amanda. John H., thesubject of this sketch, received his education in thetownship school, and at Myerstown Academy. Hethen engaged in teaching, at first in the public schools,and later at the academy at Myerstown. In 1862 heraised a company for service in the civil war, and wascommissioned captain of Company C, One Hundredand Forty-ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers,Aug. 28, 1862; was severely wounded at Gettysburg and Ralph ; he married, secondly, in 1880, AmandaMosser. FRANKLIN H. BOWER, Franklin H. Bower, son of Henry Bower and SusanZimmerman, was born in April, 1838, in Myerstown,Lebanon Co., Pa. His grandfather, Capt. JacobBower, an extensive silk merchant of Philadelphia,on retiring from business took up his residence atWomelsdorf, Berks Co., Pa. He married RebeccaWood, of Philadelphia, and their son, Henry Bower,. Z/ff^C^^#& &U&? July 1,1863, and discharged through disability on the18th of December following. Capt. Bassler re-enteredthe service in October, 1864, and was detailed to thecommand of Company I of the Tenth Veteran Re-serve Corps, from which he was transferred to thecommand of Company B of the Twelfth Veteran Re-serve Corps. In the fall of 1865 he was detailed forservice in connection with the Freedmans Bureauand stationed at Lumberton, N. C, from which heresigned in the spring of 1866, and resumed his pro-fession as instructor, having been for a year principalof the Pinegrove schools. Capt. Bassler married first,in 1859, Sarah Brobst, of Berks County, who died in1877, and their children were Horace, Laura, Robert, born at Philadelphia, died in 1836 in Myerstown,where he resided several years; married Susan Zim-merman, daughter of John Zimmerman, of Myers-town, and
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