Cowel, Norman

COWEL

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Date: 12/4/2008 at 09:31:12

COWEL, Norman
Farmer; Sec. 18; P. O. Kellogg; born in Oneida Co., New York State, Feb. 10, 1831; cam to this county March, 1875. His wife, Martha Jane, was born Aug. 24, 1833. They were married Dec. 11, 1853; their children are William A., born Oct. 12, 1854; George E., born June 19, 1857; Sarah L, born Sept. 28, 1860; Mary M., born March 1, 1863; Francis M., born Dec. 11, 1865; John S., born Feb. 7, 1871; Walter I., born Oct. 15, 1873. William A. COWEL rents 160 acres of land here, and has it under a fine state of cultivation. ~ "Rock Creek Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)