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Cowan, Jacob P – Cowles, Edward Pitkin

Cowan, Jacob P

physician, banker, United States senator, was born March 20, 1823, in Florence, Pa. He was a member of the state legislature; practiced medicine, but became a dealer in real estate and president of a private bank. In 1874 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-fcurth congress as a democrat.

Cowardin, James A

journalist, author, was born Oct. 6, 1811, near Hot Springs, Va. In 1865 he founded the Richmond Dispatch, and became editor and part owner. He was the author of Old Virginia Ham; Olde Virginia Fiddlers, and other works. He died Nov. 21, 1882, in Richmond, Va.

Cowdery, Jacob E

soldier, architect, builder, poet, was born Dec. 20, 1836, at Adams Mill, Ohio. During the war he served in the fourteenth regiment Iowa volunteer infantry. For many years he was engaged in educational work; and is now a successful architect and builder in Richmond, Mo. He is a contributor to the Scientific American and other publications; and is the author of a number of meritorious poems. His wife, Mrs. Louisa Cowdery, is also a poet of Missouri.

Cowdery, Jonathan

surgeon, was born April 22, 1767, in Sandisfield, Mass.

He served in the frigate Philadelphia, which was stranded on the coast of Tripoli in 1803, and was a prisoner in the hands of the Turks nearly two years. In 1806 he published a journal of his captivity. He died Nov. 29, 1852, in Norfolk, Va.

Cowdin, Jasper Barnett

poet.

He is the author of Esther's Wedding and Other Poems. -

Cowell, Benjamin

lawyer, jurist, author, was born in 1781 in Wrentham, Mass. He was a clerk of the federal courts, and for a time chief justice of the court of common pleas in Providence, R.

I. In 1850 he published a volume of history entitled The Spirit of '76. He died May 6, 1860, in Providence, R. I.

Cowen, Benjamin S

physician, journalist, congressman, was born in 1793 in Washington county, N. Y. In 1839 he was a delegate to the convention that nominated General Harrison for president, and in 1840 was elected to congress. During 1845-46 he was a member of the Ohio legislature, and from 1847 till 1852 was presiding judge of the court of common pleas. He died Sept. 27, 1869, in St. Clairsville, Ohio.

Cowen, Esek

jurist, author, was born Feb. 24, 1787, in Rhode Island. In 1812 he was one of the founders, in Northumberland, Saratoga county, N. Y., of the first temperance society in the United States. He was the author of Civil Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in New York; New York Reports, 1823-28; and a Digested Index of Reports, and edited Phillipps on Evidence.

Cowen, John K

lawyer, congressman, railroad president, was born Oct. 28, 1844, in Millersburg, Ohio. He removed to Baltimore, Md., in 1872, and has been practicing law in that city since that date. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat. Since 1896 he has been president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.

Cowen, Patrick H

author. He was the author of Digest of Criminal Decisions of the Court of New York; Reports of Criminal Cases; and The Poor Laws of the State of New York.

Cowles, Edward Pitkin

lawyer, jurist, was born in 1815 in Canaan, Conn.

He was admitted to the bar in 1839, and entered into practice at Hudson, N. Y., with his brother, Colonel Cowles, of the one hundred and twenty-eighth New York volunteers, who was killed at Port Hudson.

He died Dec. 2, 1874, in Chicago, III.