DANIEL B. MOWRY was born November 17, 1827, in Allegheny county, Penn., near Pittsburgh. His father, also named Daniel, was born in 1783, and was married to Jane, daughter of William Wylie, of Washington county, of the lineage of David Wylie, being a full cousin, and the children born to this union were Margaret, wife of Edward Wood, now living in Philadelphia; William, who was killed in Custer's raid at Little Big Horn; John, physician, who graduated from Philadelphia Medical College; Peter, deceased; Daniel B.; Robert G.; George W., deceased. Daniel Mowry, Sr., the father of these children, died in 1862; the mother, Jane Mowry, in 1874. In politics he was an Old line Whig, and in religion a member of the Covenanter Church. Mr. Mowry was a life resident of Pittsburgh, Penn., where he was for a time clerk of the courts, and, afterward, tipstaff. Daniel B. Mowry, the subject of this biographical memoir, though born in Pittsburgh, lived with his grandfather Wylie during most of his minority, following the vocation of farming. He was united in marriage with Mary A., daughter of Major William Wilson, and the children born to them were William W., a major in the Pennsylvania Militia, and a resident of Washington, this county; John died in infancy; Charles E., in Pittsburgh; Lottie (Mrs. Herbert Wilson, of Nebraska); Harry; Mary A. and Sarah, of Washington county. The mother passed from earth August 27, 1890. In 1861 during the war of the Rebellion, Mr. Mowry enlisted in Company A. One Hundredth P. V. I., better known as the Round Heads, and served throughout the entire struggle. In politics he is a stanch Republican, by occupation a farmer.

Text taken from page 752 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed January 1997 by Julie Jolly of Knob Noster, MO as part of the Beers Project. Published January 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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