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Obituary of Peter Bowen – Buried at Millersburg
Posted By Norman Gasbarro on August 12, 2018
From the Harrisburg Telegraph, 13 May 1922:
Veteran Railroader Ends Active Life
Peter Bowen, age 79 years, a retired Pennsylvania Railroad employee, died yesterday at his home Sunbury. He was in the railroad service 46 years. In 1865, after his military service was ended, he located at Millersburg, Pennsylvania, where he learned his trade of a carpenter and became a bridge builder for the Northern Central Railroad.
In Sunbury, Mr. Bowen spent practically all of his days working for the Pennsylvania Railroad at the freight transfer here.
In 1914, when 70 years of age, and after a service of 49 years, broken only by the three years when he was in the coal business, he retired from the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad on a pension.
Previously on this blog, Peter E. Bowen was profiled as a Civil War veteran, 74th Pennsylvania Infantry, who is buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery, Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania- and who is not named on the Millersburg Soldier Monument. See: Peter E. Bowen – Laborer, Carpenter and Railroad Clerk.
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News clipping from Newpapers.com.
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