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Levi H. Tower

BIRTH: 10 Sep 1820, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island
DEATH: 17 Nov 1865, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
BURIAL: Tower House Historical District, Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, Shasta, California
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Father: Jason Tower (30 Aug 1786 - 17 Aug 1844)
Mother: Philena or Philania Howard (8 Jun 1787 - 21 May 1861)

Family 1: Mary Jane Shuffleton (____ - ____)

DIVORCE: Y
MARRIAGE: 1852, , Shasta, California

                                                                                                 _John Tower _________+
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                                                                           _Benjamin Tower _____|_Sarah Hardin _______
                                                                          | (1673 - 1743) m 1697  (.... - 1729)       
                                                     _Gideon Tower _______|
                                                    | (1699 - 1772) m 1729|
                                                    |                     |                      _David Whipple ______+
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                                                    |                     |_Deborah Whipple ____|_Hannah Tower _______
                                                    |                       (1681 - 1755) m 1697  (1652 - 1722)       
                               _Levi Tower _________|
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                              |                                           |_Miriam Smith _______|_____________________
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 _Jason Tower ________________|
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|                             |                                                                  _Eleazer Whipple ____+
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|                             |                                            _Daniel Whipple _____|_Alice Angell _______
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|                             |                      _Daniel Whipple _____|
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|                                                   |                      _Joseph Razee _______|_____________________
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|                                                                         |                      _David Whipple ______+
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|                                                                         |_Sarah Whipple ______|_Hannah Tower _______
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|--Levi H. Tower 
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|_Philena or Philania Howard _|
  (1787 - 1861) m 1810        |
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Notes

!SOURCE: Charlemagne Tower, Tower Genealogy: An Account of the Descendants of John Tower, of Hingham, Mass. (Cambridge: University Press, 1891), p. 210, 343. Gives birth 10 Sep 1820, death 1870.

!SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, Vol. 3, Cumberland, Part 5 (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), p. 127. Gives birth 10 Sep 1813, but his birth is listed between Nancy Ray and Philena, born in 1818 and 1822 respectively.

!SOURCE: Email from Barbara Woodrum to Weldon Whipple, 12 Mar 2007. "He died of typhoid in San Francisco on Nov. 17, 1865, and is buried here in Shasta County near his home, now part of Whiskeytown Park."

!SOURCE: Shasta County Biographies (http://www.calarchives4u.com/Biographies/shasta/shas-mcco.htm). Entry for Levi H. Tower gives marriage to Mary Jane Shuffleton in 1852. Their 1854 divorce "was the first-known divorce in Shasta County."

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