Family name origins & meanings
- Americanized spelling of German or Jewish Sauer.
- The PA printer and publisher Christopher Sower was born 1693 in Laasphe on the Lahn, Germany, in 1693. Seeking greater economic and religious freedom, he emigrated in 1724 to Germantown, PA, with his wife and son, and later settled in the Leacock township in Lancaster Co., PA.