Moses Bowers was born in Mechanicsburg, Henry Co., Ind., Nov. 8, 1838, the eldest son of Henry and Elizabeth Bowers, natives of Ohio. His parents were married Dec. 25, 1834 and settled near Middletown, where the father died in 1868, and the mother in 1873. Of their nine children six are living. Moses spent his boyhood on the farm receiving a good education. He then engaged in teaching, following the vocation twenty-five years. In 1861 he enlisted in Company F, Fifty-seventh Indiana infantry, and served one year. At the battle of Pittsburg Landing he was disabled by the exposure and was discharged in November 1862. After his return home he was appointed Principal of the Mexico high school but declined to serve on account of ill health, but accepted a position in the common school of his neighborhood.

Source: History of Henry County, Indiana. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co., 1884; reprinted by Eastern Indiana Pub. Co., Knightstown, IN, 1966.