George H. Cowles (1848 - 1890)
COWLES, HOWE, SPALDING, WEST
Posted By: Barry Mateer (email)
Date: 12/17/2021 at 18:25:33
The Weekly Osceola Sentinel , Osceola, Iowa
January 30, 1890 , page 5Died, at Toronto, Canada, January 24, 1890, George H. Cowles, aged forty-one years, eleven months, and four days. He was sick only a few days, but his illness was a very painful one until the day of his death, when the pain entirely left him. The disease of which he died was the passage of gall stones through the duct leading from the gall bladder to the duodenum.
He was born in Van Buren county, Iowa, February 20,1848, the only son of Chester W. and Martha W. (Howe) Cowles. His father is a native of Amherst, and his mother of Enfield, Massachusetts. In the spring of 1833, his father located in Bentonsport, Van Buren county, where he lived till recently when ho moved to Omaha, Nebraska, where resides one of his daughters, Mrs. J.W. West.
George H. Cowles was reared and educated in his native county. After leaving school he was employed in the store of H.F. Grief & Brother four years. In 1869 he located in Osceola and began business for himself, and soon after became associated with A.H. Burrows in the private banking business. Four years later Mr. Cowles purchased his partner's interest and continued the business alone for thirteen years.
On February 8, 1886, he was one of the organizers of the Osceola Bank of which he was vice president and a director up to the time of its closing, November 31,1889, a discussion of which will not be entered into here.
He was married in 1871 to Miss Alice Spalding, of Osceola whom he leaves to mourn his untimely death. In his friendships Mr. Cowles was strong and true, and until the failure of his bank no man in Clarke county had more friends than he; and now that he has passed on to answer to his Maker for the deeds done in the body, friends and enemies will join in throwing the mantle of charity over his faults and foibles whatever they may have been, and remembering his good qualities. For the devoted wife, now left to continue the journey of life alone and in sadness, there is the deepest sympathy in this sore bereavement. She is loved and respected by all who know her intimately.
The funeral services were held at the residence of J .W. West, Omaha, and attended by only the relatives and a few acquaintances, among whom were Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Myer, Mrs. J. V. Banta, Mrs. Frank Whitmore, C. C. McIntire and wife, H. L. Karr and P. L. Fowler, of this city.
The funeral sermon was preached by the Congregationalist minister who is pastor of the church in Omaha to which the family belong. The remains were interred in Forest Lawn cemetery about twelve miles north from the heart of the city where the Cowles family have a lot.
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