"Jesse M. Cowen is a prominent physician and surgeon of the City of Hennepin. He was born in Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio, in 1834, was a student in the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, from which institution he graduated March 2, 1858, and moved West, locating in Magnolia, June 1, 1858, where he engaged in the practice of his profession until September 1862, when he entered the army as assistant surgeon in the 77th Illinois Volunteers and continued in active service until February 1865. He served with General Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, where he was ten months surgeon in charge of the 28th Illinois and 23rd Wisconsin. Dr. Cowen was almost continuously on detached hospital duty, and was in charge of the transfer of the wounded from temporary to permanent hospitals after the battle of Cedar Creek, the occasion of Sheridan's celebrated ride, and was in charge of one hundred twenty-five of the wounded after the battle of Winchester.
On Sept 27, 1860, he was married by Rev. Zadock Hall to Miss Amelia Ann Dent, daughter of Judge George E. Dent and Comfort Ijams Dent of this County. Amelia Cowen died November 3, 1875, leaving two children, Charles C. H., and Robert M. After Dr. Cowen's return to Magnolia, he continued his practice in that place until March 1869, when he moved to Hennepin. Jesse Cowen is an Odd Fellow and member of the Masonic Order."
Records Of The Olden Time, Spencer Ellsworth, 1880, Home Journal Steam Printing Establishment, Lacon, IL, http://books.google.com/books.
"Dr. Jesse M. Cowen ...was graduated at the Ohio Medical College in 1858, and soon after receiving his degree came to Illinois, making the journey by boat down the Ohio, and up the Mississippi and Illinois to Henry, Illinois, and thence across the country to Magnolia, where he was engaged in the practice of his profession until 1869 with the exception of the three years he spent in the army during the trying days of the Rebellion. In the fall of 1862 he enlisted as surgeon in the Seventy-Seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, which left Peoria under the command of Colonel Greer. The regiment was first with the Army of the West and later with the Army of the Potomac. Before entering the service Dr. Cowen was married at Hennepin in 1860 to Miss Amelia Ann Dent, a native of Putnam County, Illinois, a daughter of George and Comfort Dent, who were from Virginia. Her father became quite an extensive farmer of this state. Mrs. Cowen was one of two daughters in a large family, the oldest son being Thomas Ijams Dent, a prominent lawyer of Chicago. She was a distant relative of Mrs. Julia (Dent) Grant, the wife of General U. S. Grant. She was educated at the Rock River Seminary in Mount Morris, Illinois, and was a lady of culture and refinement, as well as a devout and earnest Christian worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1869 Dr. Cowen and, his wife, removed to Hennepin, Illinois, which was the old historic French trading post in the west and is today one of the quaint old towns of the State, being without railroad, telegraph or other connection with the outside world, although it was formerly during steamboat days, one of the busy towns of the State. Mrs. Cowen died there of rheumatism of the heart when only thirty-six years of age, leaving many friends as well as relatives to mourn her loss....
Dr. Cowen was the only son in a family of several children. He long survived his wife, dying at Hennepin of apoplexy in September, 1890 at the age of fifty-six years. Both were laid to rest in Hennepin Cemetery. For many years he was leader of the choir and chorister in the Methodist Episcopal Churches of Magnolia and Hennepin and was also leader of musical clubs in both towns. He was a man highly honored and esteemed by all who knew him on account of his many sterling traits of character."
Past and Present of the City of Decatur and Macon County, Illinois, S. J. Clark Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill, 1903, pages 423-427.
On Sept 27, 1860, he was married by Rev. Zadock Hall to Miss Amelia Ann Dent, daughter of Judge George E. Dent and Comfort Ijams Dent of this County. Amelia Cowen died November 3, 1875, leaving two children, Charles C. H., and Robert M. After Dr. Cowen's return to Magnolia, he continued his practice in that place until March 1869, when he moved to Hennepin. Jesse Cowen is an Odd Fellow and member of the Masonic Order."
Records Of The Olden Time, Spencer Ellsworth, 1880, Home Journal Steam Printing Establishment, Lacon, IL, http://books.google.com/books.
"Dr. Jesse M. Cowen ...was graduated at the Ohio Medical College in 1858, and soon after receiving his degree came to Illinois, making the journey by boat down the Ohio, and up the Mississippi and Illinois to Henry, Illinois, and thence across the country to Magnolia, where he was engaged in the practice of his profession until 1869 with the exception of the three years he spent in the army during the trying days of the Rebellion. In the fall of 1862 he enlisted as surgeon in the Seventy-Seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, which left Peoria under the command of Colonel Greer. The regiment was first with the Army of the West and later with the Army of the Potomac. Before entering the service Dr. Cowen was married at Hennepin in 1860 to Miss Amelia Ann Dent, a native of Putnam County, Illinois, a daughter of George and Comfort Dent, who were from Virginia. Her father became quite an extensive farmer of this state. Mrs. Cowen was one of two daughters in a large family, the oldest son being Thomas Ijams Dent, a prominent lawyer of Chicago. She was a distant relative of Mrs. Julia (Dent) Grant, the wife of General U. S. Grant. She was educated at the Rock River Seminary in Mount Morris, Illinois, and was a lady of culture and refinement, as well as a devout and earnest Christian worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1869 Dr. Cowen and, his wife, removed to Hennepin, Illinois, which was the old historic French trading post in the west and is today one of the quaint old towns of the State, being without railroad, telegraph or other connection with the outside world, although it was formerly during steamboat days, one of the busy towns of the State. Mrs. Cowen died there of rheumatism of the heart when only thirty-six years of age, leaving many friends as well as relatives to mourn her loss....
Dr. Cowen was the only son in a family of several children. He long survived his wife, dying at Hennepin of apoplexy in September, 1890 at the age of fifty-six years. Both were laid to rest in Hennepin Cemetery. For many years he was leader of the choir and chorister in the Methodist Episcopal Churches of Magnolia and Hennepin and was also leader of musical clubs in both towns. He was a man highly honored and esteemed by all who knew him on account of his many sterling traits of character."
Past and Present of the City of Decatur and Macon County, Illinois, S. J. Clark Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill, 1903, pages 423-427.
"Jesse M. Cowen is a prominent physician and surgeon of the City of Hennepin. He was born in Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio, in 1834, was a student in the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, from which institution he graduated March 2, 1858, and moved West, locating in Magnolia, June 1, 1858, where he engaged in the practice of his profession until September 1862, when he entered the army as assistant surgeon in the 77th Illinois Volunteers and continued in active service until February 1865. He served with General Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, where he was ten months surgeon in charge of the 28th Illinois and 23rd Wisconsin. Dr. Cowen was almost continuously on detached hospital duty, and was in charge of the transfer of the wounded from temporary to permanent hospitals after the battle of Cedar Creek, the occasion of Sheridan's celebrated ride, and was in charge of one hundred twenty-five of the wounded after the battle of Winchester.
On Sept 27, 1860, he was married by Rev. Zadock Hall to Miss Amelia Ann Dent, daughter of Judge George E. Dent and Comfort Ijams Dent of this County. Amelia Cowen died November 3, 1875, leaving two children, Charles C. H., and Robert M. After Dr. Cowen's return to Magnolia, he continued his practice in that place until March 1869, when he moved to Hennepin. Jesse Cowen is an Odd Fellow and member of the Masonic Order."
Records Of The Olden Time, Spencer Ellsworth, 1880, Home Journal Steam Printing Establishment, Lacon, IL, http://books.google.com/books.
"Dr. Jesse M. Cowen ...was graduated at the Ohio Medical College in 1858, and soon after receiving his degree came to Illinois, making the journey by boat down the Ohio, and up the Mississippi and Illinois to Henry, Illinois, and thence across the country to Magnolia, where he was engaged in the practice of his profession until 1869 with the exception of the three years he spent in the army during the trying days of the Rebellion. In the fall of 1862 he enlisted as surgeon in the Seventy-Seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, which left Peoria under the command of Colonel Greer. The regiment was first with the Army of the West and later with the Army of the Potomac. Before entering the service Dr. Cowen was married at Hennepin in 1860 to Miss Amelia Ann Dent, a native of Putnam County, Illinois, a daughter of George and Comfort Dent, who were from Virginia. Her father became quite an extensive farmer of this state. Mrs. Cowen was one of two daughters in a large family, the oldest son being Thomas Ijams Dent, a prominent lawyer of Chicago. She was a distant relative of Mrs. Julia (Dent) Grant, the wife of General U. S. Grant. She was educated at the Rock River Seminary in Mount Morris, Illinois, and was a lady of culture and refinement, as well as a devout and earnest Christian worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1869 Dr. Cowen and, his wife, removed to Hennepin, Illinois, which was the old historic French trading post in the west and is today one of the quaint old towns of the State, being without railroad, telegraph or other connection with the outside world, although it was formerly during steamboat days, one of the busy towns of the State. Mrs. Cowen died there of rheumatism of the heart when only thirty-six years of age, leaving many friends as well as relatives to mourn her loss....
Dr. Cowen was the only son in a family of several children. He long survived his wife, dying at Hennepin of apoplexy in September, 1890 at the age of fifty-six years. Both were laid to rest in Hennepin Cemetery. For many years he was leader of the choir and chorister in the Methodist Episcopal Churches of Magnolia and Hennepin and was also leader of musical clubs in both towns. He was a man highly honored and esteemed by all who knew him on account of his many sterling traits of character."
Past and Present of the City of Decatur and Macon County, Illinois, S. J. Clark Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill, 1903, pages 423-427.
On Sept 27, 1860, he was married by Rev. Zadock Hall to Miss Amelia Ann Dent, daughter of Judge George E. Dent and Comfort Ijams Dent of this County. Amelia Cowen died November 3, 1875, leaving two children, Charles C. H., and Robert M. After Dr. Cowen's return to Magnolia, he continued his practice in that place until March 1869, when he moved to Hennepin. Jesse Cowen is an Odd Fellow and member of the Masonic Order."
Records Of The Olden Time, Spencer Ellsworth, 1880, Home Journal Steam Printing Establishment, Lacon, IL, http://books.google.com/books.
"Dr. Jesse M. Cowen ...was graduated at the Ohio Medical College in 1858, and soon after receiving his degree came to Illinois, making the journey by boat down the Ohio, and up the Mississippi and Illinois to Henry, Illinois, and thence across the country to Magnolia, where he was engaged in the practice of his profession until 1869 with the exception of the three years he spent in the army during the trying days of the Rebellion. In the fall of 1862 he enlisted as surgeon in the Seventy-Seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, which left Peoria under the command of Colonel Greer. The regiment was first with the Army of the West and later with the Army of the Potomac. Before entering the service Dr. Cowen was married at Hennepin in 1860 to Miss Amelia Ann Dent, a native of Putnam County, Illinois, a daughter of George and Comfort Dent, who were from Virginia. Her father became quite an extensive farmer of this state. Mrs. Cowen was one of two daughters in a large family, the oldest son being Thomas Ijams Dent, a prominent lawyer of Chicago. She was a distant relative of Mrs. Julia (Dent) Grant, the wife of General U. S. Grant. She was educated at the Rock River Seminary in Mount Morris, Illinois, and was a lady of culture and refinement, as well as a devout and earnest Christian worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1869 Dr. Cowen and, his wife, removed to Hennepin, Illinois, which was the old historic French trading post in the west and is today one of the quaint old towns of the State, being without railroad, telegraph or other connection with the outside world, although it was formerly during steamboat days, one of the busy towns of the State. Mrs. Cowen died there of rheumatism of the heart when only thirty-six years of age, leaving many friends as well as relatives to mourn her loss....
Dr. Cowen was the only son in a family of several children. He long survived his wife, dying at Hennepin of apoplexy in September, 1890 at the age of fifty-six years. Both were laid to rest in Hennepin Cemetery. For many years he was leader of the choir and chorister in the Methodist Episcopal Churches of Magnolia and Hennepin and was also leader of musical clubs in both towns. He was a man highly honored and esteemed by all who knew him on account of his many sterling traits of character."
Past and Present of the City of Decatur and Macon County, Illinois, S. J. Clark Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill, 1903, pages 423-427.
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