The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . OF AMERICAN BIOfJRAPHY. 147. k0b^M!L McDowell, WilUam Osborne, was boruin Bedminster township, Somerset county, N. J.,Apr. 10, 1848, on a Somerset farm that was pur-chased by the f
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . OF AMERICAN BIOfJRAPHY. 147. k0b^M!L McDowell, WilUam Osborne, was boruin Bedminster township, Somerset county, N. J.,Apr. 10, 1848, on a Somerset farm that was pur-chased by the first American ancestor of the family,Ephraim McDowell of Londonderry, Ireland, whofirst settled in Hunterdon county, N. J., in of his ancestors were of revolutionary , his great-grandfather, served as a minute-man. A great-grandfather, Shepard Kollock, wasa captain, and also, at the request of Gen. Washing-ton, published a newspaper whilehe was with the army in NewJersey, which has been continuedat Elizabeth until the presentday; and his great-great-grand-mother was Hannah Arnett ofElizabethtown, N. J., to whoseinfluence is ascribed an incidentthat is credited with being theturning-point in the revolutionarywar. Elias and Henry Osborne,the great-grandfather and grand-father of Mr. McDowells mother,fought side by side in the war forindependence, while Deacon Jo-seph Davis, another great-grand-father, was taken priso
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