I am trying to trace the ancestry of my 3rd-great grandfather, Joseph MOWDER. He was born in 1808 in Northumberland (later Columbia), Pennsylvania and died in 1889 in Havana, Mason, Illinois. He married in 1833 to Judith STRAUB/Strawb.
I came across a notation in a book that Joseph was the "nephew of the noted English economist and financier, Alexander McCullough." I've never been able to locate Alexander McCullough (McCulloch?). Can anyone help? It seems that Joseph's mother would have to be a sibling to this Alexander...
As to the Mowder surname and family, the book claims they are of Scottish ancestry. I have found the surname spelled variously as Mower, Mouder, Maurer, Mourer, Moder, Mauerer, Mauder.