Covert, James W – Cowles, Henry B
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.
Cowan, Frank
lawyer, journalist, author, was born Dec. 11, 1844, in Greensburg, Pa. He is a Pennsylvania lawyer and journalist, who has traveled extensively and who entered Corea before that country had made any treaties with foreign nations. He is the author of Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Zomara, a Romance of Spain; Southwestern Pennsylvania in Song and Story; The City of the Royal Palm, and Other Poems; A Visit in Verse to Honolulu; and Fact and Fancy in New Zealand.
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.
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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 Rush
soldier, public official, was born Aug. 15, 1831, in Moorfield, Ohio. In 1861 he enlisted in the volunteer army, and became an additional paymaster, serving under McClellan and Rosecrans, and in the same year was elected secretary of state, but resigned in 1862. He was appointed adjutant-general of Ohio in 1864, and served as such for four years, receiving three brevets. He was also an inspector of military prisons, and subsequently went into the iron and coal business at Bellaire. He was a delegate to the National Philadelphia convention of 1866, and the Chicago convention of 1868, of which he was secretary. In 1871 he was appointed assistant secretary of the interior department, and was also a leading member of the republican committee of Ohio, and chairman of the state committee.
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.
Cowgill, Calvin
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 7, 1819, in Clinton county, Ohio. He moved to Wabash county, Ind., in 1846, and practiced his profession. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1851; was county treasurer from 1855 to 1859; was provost-marshal from 1862 to 1865; and again in the legislature during the special session in 1865. He was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-sixth congress as a republican.
Cowherd, William Strother
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 1, 1860, in Jackson county, Mo. He was appointed assistant prosecuting attorney of Jackson county in 1885, and served four years in that capacity. He was appointed first assistant city counselor of Kansas City in 1890, and served for two years. He was elected mayor of Kansas City in 1892, and served one term of two years. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
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.
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.
Cowles, George W
educator, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in Otisco, N. Y. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-first congress, and served as judge of Wayne county, N. Y., during 1863-70.
Cowles, Giles Hooker
clergyman, was born Aug. 26, 1766, in Farmington, Conn. In 1810 he was appointed by the Connecticut missionary society to travel through Ohio, and formed or assisted in forming most, if not all, of the congregational churches in the northeastern part of that state. He died July 16, 1835, in Austinburg, Ohio.
Cowles, Henry
clergyman, theologian, author, was born April 24, 1803, in Norfolk, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman who was professor of theology at Oberlin college in 1835-48. He was the author of Gospel Manna for Christian Pilgrims; Hebrew History; and Critical Notes on the Old and New Testament, in sixteen volumes. He died Sept. 6, 1881.
Cowles, Henry B
lawyer, congressman, was born March 18, 1798, in Hartford, Conn. He served as a member of the New York legislature from Putnam county. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1829 to 1831.