Cowles, W. H. H
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born April 22, 1840, in Hamptonville, N. C. He served in the confederate army; and was twice wounded. He was reading clerk of the senate of North Carolina from 1872 to 1874; and in the latter year was elected solicitor of the tenth judicial district of the state, in which position he served four years. He was a member of the democratic state executive committee for eight years; and in 1884 was elected a representative from North Carolina to the forty-ninth congress; and received the re-election to the fiftieth, fifty-first and fifty-second congresses as a democrat. COWLES, WILLIAM HUTCHINSON, lawyer, journalist, was born Aug. 14, 1866, in Evanston, Ill. In 1887 he graduated from Yale college with the degree of A.
B.; in 1889 graduated from the Yale Law school, and the same year was admitted to the Connecticut bar. He is the editor and owner of the Morning Spokane Review of Spokane, Wash.