Obituary from NY Times:
Major J. Proctor Cowles a Civil War veteran and retired Brooklyn lawyer, died in his eighty-sixth year on Thursday at the home of his daughter in Hempsted, L.I. Major Cowles was graduated from Union College and when 21 years of age admitted to the Bar of New York. For a time he practiced in Kansas, where he was a member of the legislature, and when the war began, he enlisted as a private in the Second Kansas Regiment with which he served throughout the war and rose through the ranks to Major. After the war he re-entered the law practice in Brooklyn. He was a member of Winchester Post, G.A.R. and a past master of the Masonic Lodge at Oak Hill, N.Y.
Major J. Proctor Cowles a Civil War veteran and retired Brooklyn lawyer, died in his eighty-sixth year on Thursday at the home of his daughter in Hempsted, L.I. Major Cowles was graduated from Union College and when 21 years of age admitted to the Bar of New York. For a time he practiced in Kansas, where he was a member of the legislature, and when the war began, he enlisted as a private in the Second Kansas Regiment with which he served throughout the war and rose through the ranks to Major. After the war he re-entered the law practice in Brooklyn. He was a member of Winchester Post, G.A.R. and a past master of the Masonic Lodge at Oak Hill, N.Y.
Obituary from NY Times:
Major J. Proctor Cowles a Civil War veteran and retired Brooklyn lawyer, died in his eighty-sixth year on Thursday at the home of his daughter in Hempsted, L.I. Major Cowles was graduated from Union College and when 21 years of age admitted to the Bar of New York. For a time he practiced in Kansas, where he was a member of the legislature, and when the war began, he enlisted as a private in the Second Kansas Regiment with which he served throughout the war and rose through the ranks to Major. After the war he re-entered the law practice in Brooklyn. He was a member of Winchester Post, G.A.R. and a past master of the Masonic Lodge at Oak Hill, N.Y.
Major J. Proctor Cowles a Civil War veteran and retired Brooklyn lawyer, died in his eighty-sixth year on Thursday at the home of his daughter in Hempsted, L.I. Major Cowles was graduated from Union College and when 21 years of age admitted to the Bar of New York. For a time he practiced in Kansas, where he was a member of the legislature, and when the war began, he enlisted as a private in the Second Kansas Regiment with which he served throughout the war and rose through the ranks to Major. After the war he re-entered the law practice in Brooklyn. He was a member of Winchester Post, G.A.R. and a past master of the Masonic Lodge at Oak Hill, N.Y.
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