Person:James Cowan (53)

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A Standard History of Oklahoma, Joseph N. Thoburn. 1916

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From Thoburn, 1916, vol 4

William Cowan, was born in Virginia in 1793. From Virginia he moved into Kentucky and died in Christian County of that state in 1880. While a resident of Kentucky [William] acquired a tract of Government land in Ray County, Missouri, close to where his son, the father of James A. Cowan, subsequently established his home. William Cowan was a farmer and stock man.

James Henderson Cowan, father of [James A. Cowan], was born in Virginia in 1837 and died in Ray County, Missouri, in 1887. He was only a child when he accompanied his parents to Kentucky, and when a young man in 1857 went to Ray County, Missouri, and looked after his father's landed interests in that county for a number of years. While in Missouri he married Martha Shumate, who was born in Indiana in 1845 and is still living in Ray County. After a few years James H. Cowan took his wife back to Kentucky, but in 1871 returned to Bay County, where he lived until his death. He was a farmer and stock man, also a carpenter and builder. During the war he served with a Kentucky regiment as a volunteer, was an active democrat, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and belonged to the Masonic fraternity. He and his wife were the parents of five children:

Marion A., in the real estate business at St. Joseph, Missouri;

James A.;

Elizabeth Minnie Bird, wife of Charles Ramsey, a carpenter and builder at Richmond, Missouri;

William A., who lives on the old homestead farm in Bay County; and

Lydia, wife of Perry Kelly, a farmer and stock man in Ray County, Missouri.