Daniel D. T. Cowen was a prominent lawyer and judge in St. Clairsville for many years. He was elected three times as the couny's Prosecuting Attorney and was the Belmont County representative to the Ohio State Constitutional Convention in 1873.
Daniel married Hannah Frances Martin of Fayette County, PA on March 28, 1848. Hannah died on March 3, 1864 and Daniel married her sister Ann E. Martin on August 8, 1865.
In 1862 he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 52nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served with that command until February of 1863 when he was reassigned on account of the illness of his wife.
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Lieut. Col. D. D. T. Cowen, a son of Judge B. S. Cowen, of Belmont county, Ohio, was thirty-six when commissioned. He was admitted to the bar the day he was twenty-one, and was a leader in his profession. He commanded the regiment on the Kentucky campaign. Your historian was, perhaps, as well acquainted with Col. Cowen as any man in the regiment. He was intellectual, fatherly, courteous, quiet and uncommunicative. The men of the regiment did not know him.
His dear wife was dying with consumption, with five small boys and a girl, all helpless. She wrote, pleadingly, for him to come home. As I entered his tent at Nashville, found him weeping. He handed me a letter. I said to him, "Colonel, no man in the regiment will blame you." He resigned Feb. 18th, 1863. Eight days after he arrived at his home he buried the mother. He lived an honored citizen of St. Clairsville, and joined his loved one in April, 1889.
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Note: The Graves Registration book at the courthouse documents this as the Methodist Cem., not the Friends Cem.
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Daniel married Hannah Frances Martin of Fayette County, PA on March 28, 1848. Hannah died on March 3, 1864 and Daniel married her sister Ann E. Martin on August 8, 1865.
In 1862 he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 52nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served with that command until February of 1863 when he was reassigned on account of the illness of his wife.
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Lieut. Col. D. D. T. Cowen, a son of Judge B. S. Cowen, of Belmont county, Ohio, was thirty-six when commissioned. He was admitted to the bar the day he was twenty-one, and was a leader in his profession. He commanded the regiment on the Kentucky campaign. Your historian was, perhaps, as well acquainted with Col. Cowen as any man in the regiment. He was intellectual, fatherly, courteous, quiet and uncommunicative. The men of the regiment did not know him.
His dear wife was dying with consumption, with five small boys and a girl, all helpless. She wrote, pleadingly, for him to come home. As I entered his tent at Nashville, found him weeping. He handed me a letter. I said to him, "Colonel, no man in the regiment will blame you." He resigned Feb. 18th, 1863. Eight days after he arrived at his home he buried the mother. He lived an honored citizen of St. Clairsville, and joined his loved one in April, 1889.
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Note: The Graves Registration book at the courthouse documents this as the Methodist Cem., not the Friends Cem.
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Daniel D. T. Cowen was a prominent lawyer and judge in St. Clairsville for many years. He was elected three times as the couny's Prosecuting Attorney and was the Belmont County representative to the Ohio State Constitutional Convention in 1873.
Daniel married Hannah Frances Martin of Fayette County, PA on March 28, 1848. Hannah died on March 3, 1864 and Daniel married her sister Ann E. Martin on August 8, 1865.
In 1862 he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 52nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served with that command until February of 1863 when he was reassigned on account of the illness of his wife.
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Lieut. Col. D. D. T. Cowen, a son of Judge B. S. Cowen, of Belmont county, Ohio, was thirty-six when commissioned. He was admitted to the bar the day he was twenty-one, and was a leader in his profession. He commanded the regiment on the Kentucky campaign. Your historian was, perhaps, as well acquainted with Col. Cowen as any man in the regiment. He was intellectual, fatherly, courteous, quiet and uncommunicative. The men of the regiment did not know him.
His dear wife was dying with consumption, with five small boys and a girl, all helpless. She wrote, pleadingly, for him to come home. As I entered his tent at Nashville, found him weeping. He handed me a letter. I said to him, "Colonel, no man in the regiment will blame you." He resigned Feb. 18th, 1863. Eight days after he arrived at his home he buried the mother. He lived an honored citizen of St. Clairsville, and joined his loved one in April, 1889.
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Note: The Graves Registration book at the courthouse documents this as the Methodist Cem., not the Friends Cem.
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Daniel married Hannah Frances Martin of Fayette County, PA on March 28, 1848. Hannah died on March 3, 1864 and Daniel married her sister Ann E. Martin on August 8, 1865.
In 1862 he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 52nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served with that command until February of 1863 when he was reassigned on account of the illness of his wife.
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Lieut. Col. D. D. T. Cowen, a son of Judge B. S. Cowen, of Belmont county, Ohio, was thirty-six when commissioned. He was admitted to the bar the day he was twenty-one, and was a leader in his profession. He commanded the regiment on the Kentucky campaign. Your historian was, perhaps, as well acquainted with Col. Cowen as any man in the regiment. He was intellectual, fatherly, courteous, quiet and uncommunicative. The men of the regiment did not know him.
His dear wife was dying with consumption, with five small boys and a girl, all helpless. She wrote, pleadingly, for him to come home. As I entered his tent at Nashville, found him weeping. He handed me a letter. I said to him, "Colonel, no man in the regiment will blame you." He resigned Feb. 18th, 1863. Eight days after he arrived at his home he buried the mother. He lived an honored citizen of St. Clairsville, and joined his loved one in April, 1889.
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Note: The Graves Registration book at the courthouse documents this as the Methodist Cem., not the Friends Cem.
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D. D. Cowen
Lt. Col.
52 Ohio Inf
Jan 20 1826
Apr 4 1884
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