Bowers Russell Ancestry

275 pages. With the additional families of Albert, Bollin, Brown, Conradi, Dorn, Ermentraudt, Fischer, Fosselman, Friedli, Hain, Haug, Hieronymus, Hoffman, Irion, King, Knopf, Lindeman, McQueen, Pfister, Probst, Rimpler, Saltzgeber, Schäffer, Stevenson, Taylor, Vigelius, and Yerian. This 8-1/2" by 11" volume documents, with full references, descents and near-descents from a number of interesting characters. They include among others Ohioans bitten by gold fever, an early train stoker, a militiaman who probably witnessed the shelling that inspired the Star Spangled Banner, brothers who served with Washington at Valley Forge, a German whose ship crossing took 17 weeks and resulted in a high death rate and mutiny, a rebellious Highland Scot transported in chains to Maryland, a committee of correspondence member who prevented the tarring and feathering of a customs collector, and a German taxed to prevent a Turkish invasion who mustered into service with spear and armor.