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Cousins, James – Cowan, Edgar
Cousins, James
agriculturist, legislator, was born March 3, 1849, in England. For many years he was engaged in the manufacture of brick; and since 1884 has been a farmer in Pittsford, Mich. He was a member of the Michigan house of representatives in 1895-96, and received the re-election in 1897-98.
Cousins, Robert G
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1859 in Cedar county, Iowa. In 1886 he was elected to the Iowa legislature, and was elected by the house of representatives as one of the prosecutors for the Brown impeachment, tried before the senate during 1887. In 1888 he was elected prosecuting attorney and also presidential elector for the fifth congressional district. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Coutler, John F
farmer, legislator, state senator, was born Nov. 15, 1840, in Cass county, Mich. In 1870 he was elected a member of the Michigan state legislature. He moved to Nebraska in 1874, and was there elected to the state senate in 1878. In 1882 he moved to Kansas, and was elected to the legislature of that state in 1884, and again in 1892.
Covell, James
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 4, 1796, in Marblehead, Mass. He was a methodist clergyman of New York and Vermont who published a Dictionary of the Bible. He died May 15, 1845, in Troy, N. Y.
Covert, George
physician, surgeon, was born Dec. 7, 1829, in Ovid, N. Y. He is a graduate of the Bennett College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago, Ill.; IN has been school superintendent, president of the State Medical society, president of the National Medical association, and professor of obstetrics in his alma mater. He is well known as a frequent contributor to medical literature, and is a successful physician and surgeon of Clinton, Wis.
Covert, James W
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 2, 1842, in Oyster Bay, N. Y. In 1867 he was elected school commissioner and served three years, at the same time acting as assistant district attorney of his county. He was surrogate of Queen's county from 1870 to 1874; and was elected a representative from New York to the forty-fifth, fortysixth, fifty-first, fifty-second and fiftythird congresses as a democrat.
Covington, George W
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 12, 1838, in Berlin, Md. In 1867 he was elected a member of the constitutional convention of Maryland from Worcester county, and served in said body as a member of the judiciary committee. In 1880 he was nominated over eight competitors, and was elected to the forty-seventh congress, and was reelected to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.
Covington, Leonard
soldier, congressman, was born Oct. 30, 1768, in Aquasco, Md. He was a member of the legislature of Maryland, and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1805 to 1807. In 1813 he was ordered to the northern frontier, and appointed by President Madison, brigadier-general.
He died Nov. 14, 1813, in French Mills, N. Y.
Covode, John
merchant, congressman, was born March 17, 1808, in Westmoreland county, Pa. He was elected from Pennsylvania a representative to the thirty-fourth congress, and re-elected to the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, thirtyseventh and fortieth congresses as a republican. He died Jan. 11, 1871, in Harrisburg, Pa.
Cowan, Edgar
lawyer, United States senator, was born Sept. 19, 1815, in Westmoreland county, Pa. He was chosen a senator in congress, from Pennsylvania, for the term ending in 1867. In 1860 he was a presidential elector and was a delegate to the Philadelphia National Union convention of 1866. He died Aug. 29, 1885, in Greensburg, Pa.