Augustus Cowan
Birth Name | Augustus Cowan |
Gender | male |
Age at Death | unknown |
Narrative
Was he a resident of Millersburg, Ohio, in 1882, and did he marry Mary A Carter in Biddeford, Maine, September 2, 1882? I don't think so. There was a Cowan family in Millersburg in 1860, and the head of the family was born in Pennsylvania.
Maine Marriage Records, ancestry.com
Copy of an old record of a marriage
Biddeford, Maine, September 2, 1882
Augustus J Cowan, of Millersburg, Ohio
Mary A Carter, of Portland, Maine
both white, no ages or other information
married by George H Wilson, of Biddeford, clergyman
Events
Event | Date | Place | Description | Sources |
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Birth | about 1864 | Maine, United States | ||
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Census (Brother) | June 18, 1870 | Hampden, Penobscot County, Maine, United States | Hampden poor house | 1a |
Event Note
1870 Census Hampden, Penobscot County, Maine
Page, Joanna, 48 note: Joanna (Inman) Page, was the sister of Rosanna (Inman) Cowan, and the aunt of the three Cowan children listed here. |
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Residence (Brother) | from 1870 to 1871 | Hampden, Penobscot County, Maine, United States | Hampden poor house | 2 |
Event Note
Page 7 of The 1870-71 Report of the Selectmen of the Town of Hampden, Maine lists Martha, Augustus and Cora E Cowan as pauper inmates of the alms house during the year ending March 1871. Page 8 says that Hampden received $351.34 from Salem Maine in the past year for the support of the Cowan children.
Report found at: |
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Census (Brother) | June 16, 1880 | Hampden, Penobscot County, Maine, United States | Hampden poor house | 3a |
Event Note
1880 Census, Hampden, Maine
Joanna Page, 65, widowed, disabled note: Joanna (Inman) Page was the maternal aunt of Augustus and Eva. |
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Death | ||||
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Parents
Relation to main person | Name | Birth date | Death date | Relation within this family (if not by birth) |
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Father | Benjamin W. Cowan | about 1835 | January 20, 1903 | |
Mother | Rosanna Inman | about 1838 | January 20, 1916 | |
Sister | Martha Ellen Cowan | September 14, 1859 | October 14, 1943 | |
Augustus Cowan | about 1864 | |||
Sister | Cora Eva Cowan | about 1866 |
Pedigree
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Benjamin W. Cowan
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Rosanna Inman
- Martha Ellen Cowan
- Augustus Cowan
- Cora Eva Cowan
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Rosanna Inman
Source References
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1870 United States Census
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- Page: Hampden, Penobscot County, Maine, Series M593, Roll 554, Page 61.
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Citation:
"United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6DT-9SQ : 19 March 2020), Martha Cowan in entry for Daniel Patterson, 1870.
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- Town of Hampden, Report of Selectmen, 1870-1871
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1880 United States Census
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- Page: Hampden, Maine, ED 35, sheet 320A
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Citation:
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFQM-B69 : 15 August 2017), Augustus Cowan in household of David S Jewell, Hampden, Penobscot, Maine, United States; citing enumeration district ED 35, sheet 320A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,486.
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