William F. COWAN

                   Terry Cowan Document #175
Transcript of Family of William F. Cowan

Terry Cowan Document #177
Mason County,TX 1880 Census
138.  Cowan, John, 37, raising stock, AR, GA, AL
Susan E. 20, keeping house, AR
Malissa, 8
Wm. S. 6
Classey, 4
John W. Dec 79

Terry Cowan Document #178
Lampasas County, Texas 1900 Census
111/112.  Cowan, Jno. A. Oct 43, 56, m. 28 years, AR,TN, AL
Susan E., Nov 52, 47, m. 28 years, AR, AR, AR
Alfred B., Feb 82, 18, TX, AR, AR
Mary E., Apr 84, 16
Walter A., Sep 86, 13
Jesse W., Apr. 89, 11
Virginia M. Apr 92, 8
Susan P., Dec. 93, 6
Paul, Aug 95, 4

Terry Cowan Document #171
Lampasas County, Texas 1910 Census
J.A. Cowan, 67
Sousan, 58
Maude 18
Sousie, 16
Paul 14

Terry Cowan Document #170
Pension record of J.A. Cowan - Lampasas County, TX
Filed 1-7-1913, approved 12-1-1913
            J.A. Cowan discharged at Marshall, TX May 1865.  Age 69.  b. Ark, in TX 47 years, resides in Lampasas Co for 25 years.  P.O. at Kempner - farming p command org in Ark - Spring 1862, May 1865 Co "I" Brooks Conf. wit.  T.P. Edgin,
            Edgin:  "Applicant was in the same Co & Regt in which I served and were together from the Spring of 62 to 1865 at close of war.  I knew applicant before the war.  He made a good soldier & never deserted.  I have known him since he was a small boy 10 or 12 years old.  We served in Co "I" - Brooks Regt. Inf. from Ark.
            R.F. Milton - gave depo. 78 years old at S.M. Redford's.  Valley Springs, TX.  He has known J.A. Cowan since 1861 in Franklin Co, Ark - W.H. Brooks regt and Co I - enlisted July 1867 at Ozark Franklin Co, Ark.
            War Dept - J.A. Cowan, private Co I, 34th (Brook's) Ark Inf, CSA, enlisted 7-2-1862 - Present 2-29-1864
                  

                   Terry Cowan Document #176:  unmarried

Terry Cowan Document #230
Texas Under Many Flags, Clarence R. Wharton, Vol. V, 1930
Elias H. Cowan, M.D.
     Scarcely a day passes that does not bring with it some new discover of the medical profession by means of which humanity is benefited and some of the dread scourges are placed under control, if not wiped out.  Dr. E.H. Cowan is the discoverer of a synthetic bacterio-phage for the cure of tonsils, piles, carbuncles, felons, and appendicitis, in fact any disease the name of which terminates in "itis." without operation.  One of the men of Marshall who has taken advantage of the wonderful jprogress thus made is Dr. E.H. Cowan, whose work in chronic cases has brought more than ordinary results, winning for him a reputation that has far outrun local boundaries.  He wasborn in Arkansas, and was brought to Texas as a small child by his parents, Dr. William F. Cowan and Dr. Mary Ann Cowan, both of whom were very prominent physicians of their day in Texas, she being one of the first of her sex to practice medicine in the state.
        Gradually progressing in his education through the grade and high schools of Texas, the University of Texas, the American Medical College of Saint Louis, Doctor Cowan was graduated from the College of Medicine and Sciences and did post-graduate work in the New York Post-Graduate School and Bennett Medical Electro Therapeutic College, New York Polyclinic Medical School, University of Oklahoma, Ireland's Course in Physical and Electro-Therapeutics and Chiropractic - fifteen post-graduate courses in all.
      For a short period Doctor Cowan was engaged in practice in Galveston, Texas, and in Alvin, Texas, after which he located in Crowell, Texas, where he established a hospital and remained there for many years, becoming a most noted physician and health officer of his county.  His hospital was destroyed by fire, and he left Crowell for Houston and spent several years in very successful jpractice.  When the country entered the World War he enlisted in the Volunteer Medical Reserve Corps, but was not called to the colors.  Locating then in Marshall, he has here found congenial environment and ample opp[ortunity and has built up a very large practice.  His equipment is very complete, including deep therapy lamps, infra red lamps, X-ray apparatus, untraviolet light and other appliances used in electro therapy and his suite includesnine rooms at 209 1/2 Austin Street, Marshall.  Because of his skill and fine equipment, one of the most complete in Texas, Doctor Cowan is very successful in his treatment of chronic cases, curing many which have been given up as hopeless under now regular methods.  He is a member of the National Eclectic Medical Association, the State Eclectic Medical Society, and has taken considerable post-graduate work in recent years.  Fraternally he is a Knight Templar and a Knight of Pythias, and for some years was medical examiner for the Uniformed Ranks of the latter order.  The Christian Church has in him an active member and a faithful worker.  Not only is Doctor Cowan a graduate in medicine, but in pharmacy as well, and he is licensed in Texas under both Regular and Eclectic Schools; also has verification certificate from the Mixed Medical Examining Board of Texas for all schools.
   While not a native son of Texas, Doctor Cowan has lived for so many useful years within its borderss that his interests ar centered here, and he always feels that nothing is too much for him to do if it promises to make for the ultimate success of the people.  While public office has never attracted him, he is interested in assisting the right kind of candidates to succeed, and his name is known all over thisj part of the state, Louisiana and Arkansas as a very good citizen, as well as a learned and highly-skilled practitioner.

Terry Cowan Document #242-243
Letter from E.H. Cowan to Joseph Cowan
Crowell, Texas
April 20, 1901
J.M. Cowan, Esqr.
Oakalla, Texas
Dear Nephew:-
Your kind and very welcome letter is received.  I was glad to hear from you and to hear you ws all well.  We are well and I am doing much btter here than I ever did at Oakalla.  This is a country of rich land and when it is seasonable they make good crops of corn, bails, maize, copper corn, wheat, oats, cotton, all kinds of root crops, and fruits.  Nearly all of this county is better land than the any of the land in that county.  The last two years they made over a bale of cotton forty bushel of corn eighteen to twent-five bushels of wheat and ?? bushels of oats to the acre.  Potatoes, beets, and turnips a peck to the hill milo maize and copper corn grows like large sorghums and more and larger heads and seed.  It makes from two 15 five tons of seeds to the acre the farmers here do not work their land much.  Lots of them have not plowed their corn land yet they will finally streak it off and flash if and blow it once or twice.  One man pick below here cultivates 200 acres alone only in leisure time.  You asked me if ....I do not know whether this county would suit you or not.  I have told you the good part, now I will tell you the bad part.  Sometimes they have a drouth for two or three years altogether that there is nothing but milo maize and copper corn made.  The wind blows here on an average of six days and one half in the week and some days so hard that it almost turns a buggy over and you in it, and so cold that ice freezes on your eye lashes.  Winter commences in September and lasts until fist to middle of April.  We had a two inch snow on the 17th of April but it melted off same day.  Peach trees have leaves on them and the cottonwoods have leaves as large as your thumb nail now, but the mesquites have no leaves yet.
I would be glad to see you.  I know you could tell me a lot of things that have happened since I left there.
I wish you would write to me all about what has happened since I left there.
I will close for this time.  Give my respects to all my friends and accept a large portion yourself.
Yours Very Truly,
E.H. Cowan