Cowan corridors/ author: The Rev. Dr. Gordon Armour Taylor ; photograph and memento editor: Mrs. Ruth Virginia (Herbert) Taylor-Davies

Title Also Known As

Cowan corridors : our ancestral odyssey through the British Isles and America.

Format

Book, Microfilm 35mm

Language

English

Publication Date

c1994

Publisher

G.A. Taylor

Place of Publication

Salem, Oregon

Physical

211 p. : ill., coat of arms, facsims., geneal. tables, maps, ports.

Notes

Caption title.

Andrew C. Cowan (1741-1798), a Revolutionary War solder, was born in Augusta County, Virginia, the son of John and Jennett Cowan. He and his wife, Mary Walker, had at least two sons, ca. 1760-ca. 1767. Record follows line of descent to James B. Cowan (1855-1940). He was born in Clinton County, Kentucky, the son of James C. Cowan (1819-ca. 1885), a Confederate soldier. He migrated west to Texas in 1870 and lived there several years. He migrated to Minnesota in the 1880s and was living at St. Paul, Minnesota, by 1886. He married Georgiana Irene Fuchs (d. 1893). They had seven children, 1889-1893. He married his children's Irish nanny, Bridie Doherty (1873-1947), in They had nine children, 1873-1915. The family moved to a homestead near Janesburg in western North Dakota in 1907. J.B. and Bridie moved to Pasadena, California, in 1934 or 1935. Children lived in California, Oregon, and elsewhere. Record chiefly gives the family of their daughter, Martha Esther Cowan (1897-1988), and her husband, Ira William Herbert (1893-1964), of Salem, Oregon.

Includes the Doherty, Herbert and other related families.

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Also on microfilm. Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1997. on 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.FamilySearch LibraryUnited States & Canada B1 Floor Film2055986 Item 109157651
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Also on microfilm. Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1997. on 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.FamilySearch LibraryUnited States & Canada B1 Floor Film2055986 Item 109157651

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