Artists of Abraham Lincoln portraits . Rare nineteenth-century photographic portrait of David Bustill Bowser (facing page). An oilpainting with a firefighting theme portrays the apocryphal phoenix rising from the ashes(above). A parade hat commissioned by the United States Fire Company (top). 25. Bowser descended from a DelawareValley family whose American rootspredated the American Revolution. Hisgrandfather, Cyrus Bustill (1732-1806),was a baker in Philadelphia, and legend,perhaps apocryphal, holds he suppliedbread to General George Washingtonstroops during the encampment at ValleyForge duri
Artists of Abraham Lincoln portraits . Rare nineteenth-century photographic portrait of David Bustill Bowser (facing page). An oilpainting with a firefighting theme portrays the apocryphal phoenix rising from the ashes(above). A parade hat commissioned by the United States Fire Company (top). 25. Bowser descended from a DelawareValley family whose American rootspredated the American Revolution. Hisgrandfather, Cyrus Bustill (1732-1806),was a baker in Philadelphia, and legend,perhaps apocryphal, holds he suppliedbread to General George Washingtonstroops during the encampment at ValleyForge during the winter of Bustill married Elizabeth Murray(1746-1827) in 1773. The Bustills hadeight children, one of whom was DavidBowsers mother, Rachel (1777-1848).Rachel Bustill married twice, first toJames Harding and then to JeremiahBowser in 1819, at the First PresbyterianChurch in the Northern Liberties sectionof Philadelphia. The following year, onJanuary 16, their son David BustillBowser was born. Growing up in Philadelphia in the1820s and 1830s, Bowser was morefortunate than his peers in obtaining aneducation. He attended the Kelly School on Cherry Street; among hisclassmates were sons ofprominent black Philadel-phians. It was a periodin Philadelphia duringwhich AfricanA
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