A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work . Lodge, No. 264, in the Order of Free andAccepted Masons, and in i860 of the Independent Orderof Odd-fellows, being a charter member of Brazil Lodge,No. 215, and he has held high positions in both has always been a Democrat, though never a bitterpartisan. November 3, 1S53, he marriecl Miss Mary , daughter of Benjamin F. Elkin, Esq., of BowlingGreen, Indiana. With her he lived happily until herdeath. May 24, 1S79. He has two
A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work . Lodge, No. 264, in the Order of Free andAccepted Masons, and in i860 of the Independent Orderof Odd-fellows, being a charter member of Brazil Lodge,No. 215, and he has held high positions in both has always been a Democrat, though never a bitterpartisan. November 3, 1S53, he marriecl Miss Mary , daughter of Benjamin F. Elkin, Esq., of BowlingGreen, Indiana. With her he lived happily until herdeath. May 24, 1S79. He has two children, now grown—adaughter, Lizzie, and a son, Charlie. The latter is abright lad of fourteen. The daughter is married toJohn B. Smead, proprietor of a marble-yard in Compton is esteemed most highly by those whoknow him best, as an honest and upright citizen, hospi-table, and always interested in charitable enterprises,and who attends carefully to business, both for himselfand those who intrust their interests in his hands. Forthe invaluable service rendered, not only to his ownsection, but to the state, he is now favorably spoken of. *--^^ ^ (^__ ^^^C . ^(l^^^L^y4<2^^CPl^ Slh Dht.] REPRESHNTATIVE MEN OF INDIANA. for Congress, and will no doubt be returned to the slateSenate if he so desire. Such men as Mr. Compton arethose who give a healthy impetus to the wheels of leg-islation, and the men who are demanded by the peopleas legislators. ipOWAN, JOHN M., the subject of this sketch,vl I was born in Indianajjolis, December 6, 1821. Hisf-ij) parents were John Cowan and Anna (Maxwell)^S^ Cowan, of Scotch-Irish lineage. His fallier was anative of Virginia, and at an early age accompanied thefamily to the state of Tennessee, where he spent thefirst twenty years of his life; afterward removing toKentucky, and thence to Charlestown, in the then terri-tory of Indiana. Upon the breaking out of the Indiantroubles, he volunteered under General William HenryHarrison, acco
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