Individual Details
Melville Crossman Mower
(28 Jan 1828 - 5 Jun 1897)
Events
| Birth | 28 Jan 1828 | Greene, Androscoggin, Maine |  | ||
| Census | 1 Jun 1850 | Greene, Kennebec (now Androscoggin), Maine |  | | |
| Marriage Intention | 28 May 1853 | Leeds, Androscoggin, Maine - Hannah Lothrop Jennings | | ||
| Marriage | 11 Jun 1853 | Leeds, Androscoggin, Maine - Hannah Lothrop Jennings | | ||
| Occupation | owned and operated a general store, a butcher sop and also an ice business - East Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan | | |||
| Occupation | owner and operator of an extensive farm during his later years after disposing of his ice business | | |||
| Bio Note | He was a Republican and a Mason. | | |||
| Religion | Baptist | | |||
| Death | 5 Jun 1897 | suicide (shot himself in the temple) - Spalding, Saginaw, Michigan | | ||
| Burial | Forest Lawn Cemetery, Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan |
Families
| Spouse | Hannah Lothrop Jennings (1835 - ) |
| Child | Blanche Jennings Mower (1864 - 1917) |
| Father | Calvin Mower (1799 - 1873) |
| Mother | Eunice Gorham Crossman (1801 - 1841) |
| Sibling | Orrin Mower (1823 - 1840) |
| Sibling | Angeline Shaw Mower (1825 - 1899) |
| Sibling | Cynthia Ashley Mower (1826 - 1923) |
| Sibling | Anna Crossman Mower (1829 - 1840) |
| Sibling | Alonzo King Mower (1831 - 1855) |
| Sibling | Daniel Crossman Mower (1833 - 1861) |
| Sibling | Hannah Jane Bailey Mower (1834 - 1911) |
| Sibling | Thomas Dailey Mower (1838 - 1913) |
Notes
Census
Enumerated as Melvin Mower in the household of Calvin Mower, a 22 year old male, a farmer, with his birthplace listed as Maine.Endnotes
1. FamilySearch, "Records of births, deaths, marriages and marriage intentions, 1755-1925 (Greene, Maine)," database with digital images, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org: accessed 9 August 2016), page 183, image 181 of 855; citing Town Clerk, Greene, Maine; LDS Film #007595552.
2. Walter L. Mower, Mower Family History: A Genealogical Record of the Maine Branch of This Family together with Other Branches of the Family Tree (Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1923), 86.
3. 1850 U.S. Census, Kennebec County, Maine, population schedule, Town of Greene, 352, dwelling 240, family 254, Calvin Mower household, line 10, Melvin Mower; digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 September 2019); citing NARA microfilm publication M432, 1009 rolls.
4. "Maine Marriage Records 1713-1937 [database online]," Ancestry.com, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 September 2016), digital image, "Copy of an Old Record of a Marriage," Mower/Jennings; Maine State Archives; Augusta, Maine; Pre 1892 Delayed Returns; Roll No. 78.
5. "Maine Marriage Records 1713-1937 [database online]," Ancestry.com, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 September 2016), digital image, "Copy of an Old Record of a Marriage," Mower/Jennings; Maine State Archives; Augusta, Maine; Pre 1892 Delayed Returns; Roll No. 78.
6. Walter L. Mower, Mower Family History: A Genealogical Record of the Maine Branch of This Family together with Other Branches of the Family Tree (Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1923), 88-9.
7. "A Suicide at Saginaw," The Bay City (Michigan) Times, 4 June 1897, p. 5, col. 2; digital image, GenealogyBank (www.genealogybank.com : accessed 3 November 2019), Historical Obituary Collection.
8. Walter L. Mower, Mower Family History: A Genealogical Record of the Maine Branch of This Family together with Other Branches of the Family Tree (Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1923), 88.
9. Walter L. Mower, Mower Family History: A Genealogical Record of the Maine Branch of This Family together with Other Branches of the Family Tree (Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1923), 88.
10. Walter L. Mower, Mower Family History: A Genealogical Record of the Maine Branch of This Family together with Other Branches of the Family Tree (Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1923), 88.
11. Walter L. Mower, Mower Family History: A Genealogical Record of the Maine Branch of This Family together with Other Branches of the Family Tree (Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1923), 86.
12. "A Suicide at Saginaw," The Bay City (Michigan) Times, 4 June 1897, p. 5, col. 2; digital image, GenealogyBank (www.genealogybank.com : accessed 3 November 2019), Historical Obituary Collection.
13. "Shot In The Temple," The Saginaw (Michigan) Evening News, 4 June 1897, p. 4, col. 3; digital image, GenealogyBank (www.genealogybank.com : accessed 3 November 2019).