Cowley, George B
physician, journalist, state legislator, poet, was born May 16, 1861, near Rio, Wis. In 1882 he graduated from the Missouri Medical college of St. Louis. He is the editor and owner of The Chief of Cowgill, Mo. He has filled many important public offices in his county and state; and in 1897 was elected a member of the Missouri state legislature. He is the author of a number of religious and historical poems.
His poems have appeared in Poets of America, and other standard collections.