Cowles, Andrew D
lawyer, state legislator, was born July 31, 1856, in Elkville, N. C. He has attained success as one of the foremost lawyers of North Carolina at Statesville. He has been postmaster of his city; held a position in the revenue service, and was lieutenant and then captain of the Iredell Blues. In 1898 he organized the North Carolina quota for the Spanish-American war, and was subsequently appointed colonel of the second regiment of the North Carolina volunteers.
COWLES, AUGUSTUS WOODRUFF, clergyman, educator, college president, was born July 12, 1819, in Reading, N. Y.
In 1847-56 he was pastor of the presbyterian church in Brockport, and was then made president of Elmira college, where he still remains.