Mayor Knotts, members of the Gary common council, city officials and men from the Gary steel mills will go to Chesterton tomorrow to attend the funeral of Lewis Bowser, father of Alderman Emerson L. Bowser of Gary, chief of police at the steel mills. The dead man was also the father of former State Senator A. J. Boswer, now editor of the Chesterton Tribune.
The elder Bowser, who died early Saturday morning, was 75 years old. He was one of the pioneer settlers of Porter county.
The funeral services will be conducted at Chesterton tomorrow morning at 8:30 o'clock.
--The Times (Munster, IN), on Monday, March 11, 1912, pg. 7
Mayor Knotts, members of the Gary common council, city officials and men from the Gary steel mills will go to Chesterton tomorrow to attend the funeral of Lewis Bowser, father of Alderman Emerson L. Bowser of Gary, chief of police at the steel mills. The dead man was also the father of former State Senator A. J. Boswer, now editor of the Chesterton Tribune.
The elder Bowser, who died early Saturday morning, was 75 years old. He was one of the pioneer settlers of Porter county.
The funeral services will be conducted at Chesterton tomorrow morning at 8:30 o'clock.
--The Times (Munster, IN), on Monday, March 11, 1912, pg. 7
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