Cowan, Edgar

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Edgar Cowan
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Siblings
    0
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    3
    Family
    Williana Cowan (single mother), Robert Cooper ("putative" father), William Cowan (grandfather), Lucetta Oliver (wife) 
    Other Education
    Franklin College (OH)
    Occupation
    Politician
    Farmer or Planter
    Businessman
    Educator
    Other Occupation
    keelboatman
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Political Parties
    Republican
    Government
    US Senate
    How to Cite This Page: "Cowan, Edgar," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/42675.