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I can "...make a copy...for you...", but I need to know what exactly you meant by "...copy of Henry H. Brower...". Let me know, and e-mail me your snail-mail address, so I can send you copies of the few documents I have on Henry Brower. I can also copy photos of various Browers for you if you want.
I think the Brower migration to Iowa could have been earlier than 1877. I was always told that they (Browers & various allied families) all came together from NY. Maybe they didn't, but a reasonable assumption would be that Caroline Pettit Brower's parents arrived with Henry and Caroline Brower. According to someone (I can't find who at the moment), Caroline's father, John Pettit, died at Fredericksburg, Chickasaw Co., IA in 1874.
I now have three possible birth years for Henry Brower: 1841 from a reprint of an 1887 newspaper account of some local census information, 1842 from Colleen Frans who gives date of death 25 August 1916 at age 74, and marriage to Georgia Rees at age 60 in 1905. (Maybe he didn't want Ms. Rees to know how old he was.)
Colleen Frans listed four wives for Henry Brower: 1) Ruthelia A. Armstrong m. 6 Jan. 186? [sic] at Northampton, PA, d. 19 Sept. 1868; 2) Henrietta Schauten m. 15 Oct. 1869 at Ballston Spa, NY, d. 19 Feb. 1870; 3) Caroline Pettit m. 14 Nov. 1870 at Providence, Saratoga Co., NY, d. 16 Jan. 1903; 3) Georgia A. Rees m. 1 Mar. 1905 at Kingfisher, OK. I knew that my grandfather grew up with his stepbrother, James E. Brower b. 20 Jan. 1866 to wife #1, and always thought Carrie Pettit was Henry Brower's second and last wife until I got this list that Colleen sent to another cousin. I don't know what sources Colleen has for this info. (Colleen Frans is the wife of Dick K. Frans whose mother was Alice B. Brower, the youngest child of Henry H. Brower and Caroline Pettit.)
I'm glad to know who first speculated that Tigar Mabb may have been Indian and why. And I also like your theory that could explain the discrepancy in birth dates for Leroy. Among the other possibilities: 1) handwritten 4's often look like handwritten 9's; 2) Leroy didn't want Ms. Bush to know how old he was; 3) the Brower boys routinely lied about their age for no special reason. I confess to being an inexperienced amateur when it comes to genealogy, but as a professional investigator and documenter in another field I know that people who can't or won't speculate aren't very good at complex mysteries.
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