Augustus Cowan

Birth Name Augustus Cowan
Gender male
Age at Death unknown

Notes

Note

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
Birth about 1864 Maine, United States    
Residence (Brother) from 1870 to 1871 Hampden, Penobscot County, Maine, United States Hampden poor house 1
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:
https://heirloomsreunited.blogspot.com/2012/03/1870-71-report-of-selectmen-of-town-of.html

Census (Brother) June 18, 1870 Hampden, Penobscot County, Maine, United States Hampden poor house 2a
Note

1870 Census Hampden, Penobscot County, Maine
Series M593, Roll 554, Page 61.
June 18, 1870
with others, "inmates of poor house"

Page, Joanna, 48
Cowan, Martha, 12, attended school
Cowan, Augusta, 6, attended school
Cowan, Eva, 3
all born in Maine

note: Joanna (Inman) Page, was the sister of Rosanna (Inman) Cowan, and the aunt of the three Cowan children listed here.

Census (Brother) June 16, 1880 Hampden, Penobscot County, Maine, United States Hampden poor house 3a
Note

1880 Census, Hampden, Maine
June 16, 1880
on Kennebec Road
some of the same names as the 1870 listing of the inmates of the poorhouse were on this list.

Joanna Page, 65, widowed, disabled
Augustus Cowan, 15
Eva Cowan, 13
all born in Maine

note: Joanna (Inman) Page was the maternal aunt of Augustus and Eva.

Death        

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Benjamin W. Cowanabout 1835January 20, 1903
Mother Rosanna Inmanabout 1838January 20, 1916
    Sister     Martha Ellen Cowan September 14, 1859 October 14, 1943
         Augustus Cowan about 1864
    Sister     Cora Eva Cowan about 1866

Source References

  1. Town of Hampden, Report of Selectmen, 1870-1871
  2. 1870 United States Census
      • Page: Hampden, Penobscot County, Maine, Series M593, Roll 554, Page 61.
      • 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.

  3. 1880 United States Census
      • Page: Hampden, Maine, ED 35, sheet 320A
      • 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.