John Edward Mower (September 18, 1815 – June 11, 1879) was a member of the Minnesota Territorial Legislature in the 1850s.
On March 1, 1856, the second territorial Governor Willis A. Gorman (D) honored him by giving the newly created Mower County his name.
His family made the move west and settled in St. Louis, Missouri, where he met and married Gratia A. Remick.
He and his brother, Martin, moved their families to the area around St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, and established themselves in the lumber business in 1843.
The Mower brothers built a house in the style of Greek Revival in Arcola in 1847 and it is now on the National Register of Historic Places.