Dwight Cowan and Peoria Anna Thomas

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Husband Dwight Cowan ¹

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           Born: 21 Sep 1853 - Warren, Warren Co, PA 1
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         Father: Ephraim Cowan (1821-1894) 2 3
         Mother: Melvina Tamar King (1823-1868) 1

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       Marriage: 2 Oct 1878 1

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Wife Peoria Anna Thomas ¹

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           Born: 30 Oct 1858 - Warren, Warren Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Thomas (1825-Aft 1913) 1
         Mother: Frances Harriet Payne (      -1864) 1

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Children

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1 F Harriet Luella Cowan ¹

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           Born: 13 Jul 1880 1
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         Spouse: Percy Waters Wilkins (      -      ) 1

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2 M Earl Willis Cowan ¹

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           Born: 28 Mar 1884 1
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3 F Ernestine Cowan Cowan ¹

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           Born: 2 Mar 1889 4
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General Notes: Husband - Dwight Cowan

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He was educated in the local public schools, and when a very young man assisted his father in the office of the Warren Mail. In the year 1879 he became a partner with his father, continuing thus until his father's death in 1894, when he and his brother Willis pur­chased their sister's interest in the enterprise. Mr. Cowan later purchased his brother's inter­est, and conducted the paper alone until fur­ther changes were made in its management. In the year 1900 he became associated with the Pennsylvania Gas Company of Warren in the capacity of collector and clerk. For more than sixteen years he was a member of the board of assessors, and was a Republican in his politics. From 1887 until 1898 he was a member of Company I, Sixteenth Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, being cor­poral of the company for three years. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war most of the married men dropped out of the com­pany, and Mr. Cowan, with others, joined Company D, Twenty-first Regiment Home Guards. At the close of the war he returned to his old regiment and served out his unex­pired term. He belonged to several fraternal organizations, being a member of Ramona Council, Royal Arcanum, and past noble guard of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Warren. He was a communicant of the Presby­terian church.

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General Notes: Wife - Peoria Anna Thomas

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She received her education in Warren, Pennsylvania. She taught school in early life, and was a devout member of the Presbyterian church, to many of whose societies she belonged. She was superintendent of the primary Sunday school, and president of the Ladies' Aid. She had the unique distinction of having served as one of the directors on the Warren school board, being one of the three women who had been so honored. Mrs. Cowan was eligible to membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution, through both sides of her family, and took a keen interest in the history and genealogy of her people.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 381.

2 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 330.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 380, 906.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 382.