Timothy Cowles, ..., settled in 1819 in the southwest part of Bolivar, coming from Otsego Co. in the spring to Friendship, and in the summer to Bolivar where he bought land and built a log house into which he moved in December. He was a noted hunter and trapper, a shoemaker, carpenter and farmer. He married Anna Wilbur, had 10 children, and died Nov. 11, 1855. Mrs. Cowles died May 26, 1853.
