was dissolved on September 24, 1806.¹¹⁴

Today, it is as a printer and typefounder that
Sower is remembered. He entered Into the typefounding
business with William Gwynn, later editor of the Fed-
eral Gazette, Gwynn apparently furnishing much of the
e&pital and assigning the entire management of the
business to Sower.¹¹⁵ In 1806 he purchased the foundry
worked by Justus Fox, thereby obtaining some of his
father's former possessions.¹¹⁶ In 1808 he was en-
gaged in casting the smallest type yet used in the
world,¹¹⁷ Perhaps it was with this diamond type that
Samuel Sower's famous Bible was printed, with John
Hagerty as publisher and Brooke Watson Sower, son of

Christopher Sower III, as printer.¹¹⁸

In 1813 Samuel Sower was called to the ministry

by the Dunkard congregation,¹¹⁹ to which he, as his
father before him, belonged. Sower was married three
times, to Sarah Landes (1767-1791), Hannah Schlosser
and Elizabeth Lamotte (d. 1862)¹²⁰. His only child,
Maria (1796-1875) was married to Richard Spalding, a
Roman Catholic, which marriage caused Sower much grief
because of his strong personal religious beliefs.¹²¹

114 Federal gazette.SejstraEter 14,1806.

115 Seidensticker O. op. cit. p. 16.

116 McCulloch, William, op. cit. p. 162.

117 Seidensticker, O. op. cit. p. 16.

118 Ibid. p. 16.

119 Ibid, p. 16.

120 Sower, C.G. op. cit.

121 Seidenaticker, O. op. cit. p. 16.