Robert S. Cowan, M.D. practiced medicine at Girard for more than twenty years. He was a native of Sullivan County, Tennessee, born March 9, 1833, son of George R. Cowan, a native of East Tennessee. Robert was but a child when his family migrated to Missouri, and he was reared under pioneer influences.
There were no free schools in Missouri, in his younger days, and he gained the preliminaries of his education in the school house that his father erected on his land, under the instruction of a teacher that his father employed. Later, he became a student at Ebenezer College, ten miles north of Springfield, Missouri. He laid a solid foundation for his medical studies, which he commenced at the age of twenty-three, under the tuition of Dr. Samuel B. Bowles, of Greenfield. He afterward further prepared himself for his profession by attending lectures at the Missouri Medical College. He began his career as a physician in Dade County.
Dr. Cowan was practicing medicine in Newton County, when the American Civil War broke out. Having been reared in a slave state, his sympathies went to the Sourthern cause and he offered his services to the Confederate States, in 1861. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the Third Missouri Calvary, and was soon promoted to be Surgeon of his Regiment. He performed valuable service in Price's Army for three years, gaining valuable experience and professional knowledge, skill and ability.
At the end of his service in the CSA, Dr. Cowan went to Mexico, where he spent six months, and then to New Orleans, until the spring of 1865, at which time he moved to Macoupin County, Illinois and opened an office at Nilwood. In 1869, he moved from there to Girard. He was a member of the Macoupin County Society for Medical Improvement and also of the State Medical Society.
Dr. Cowan was happily married in 1854, to Elizabeth Weir, a native of Cooper County, Missouri and a daughter of the Reverend Samuel Weir and Mary B. (Stephens) Weir. They became the parents of five children: George R. Cowan, a graduate of the St. Louis Medical College, became his father's assistant; Mary Cowan, wife of Ed E. McCoy of Springfield, Illinois; Florence Cowan; Dollie Cowan and Elizabeth G. Cowan
Source: Biography of Robert S. Cowan, M.D. Portrait and Biographical Record of Macoupin County, Illinois. Biographical Publishing Company, Macoupin County, 1891, page 320
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Jan Gorman
There were no free schools in Missouri, in his younger days, and he gained the preliminaries of his education in the school house that his father erected on his land, under the instruction of a teacher that his father employed. Later, he became a student at Ebenezer College, ten miles north of Springfield, Missouri. He laid a solid foundation for his medical studies, which he commenced at the age of twenty-three, under the tuition of Dr. Samuel B. Bowles, of Greenfield. He afterward further prepared himself for his profession by attending lectures at the Missouri Medical College. He began his career as a physician in Dade County.
Dr. Cowan was practicing medicine in Newton County, when the American Civil War broke out. Having been reared in a slave state, his sympathies went to the Sourthern cause and he offered his services to the Confederate States, in 1861. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the Third Missouri Calvary, and was soon promoted to be Surgeon of his Regiment. He performed valuable service in Price's Army for three years, gaining valuable experience and professional knowledge, skill and ability.
At the end of his service in the CSA, Dr. Cowan went to Mexico, where he spent six months, and then to New Orleans, until the spring of 1865, at which time he moved to Macoupin County, Illinois and opened an office at Nilwood. In 1869, he moved from there to Girard. He was a member of the Macoupin County Society for Medical Improvement and also of the State Medical Society.
Dr. Cowan was happily married in 1854, to Elizabeth Weir, a native of Cooper County, Missouri and a daughter of the Reverend Samuel Weir and Mary B. (Stephens) Weir. They became the parents of five children: George R. Cowan, a graduate of the St. Louis Medical College, became his father's assistant; Mary Cowan, wife of Ed E. McCoy of Springfield, Illinois; Florence Cowan; Dollie Cowan and Elizabeth G. Cowan
Source: Biography of Robert S. Cowan, M.D. Portrait and Biographical Record of Macoupin County, Illinois. Biographical Publishing Company, Macoupin County, 1891, page 320
Contributor:
Jan Gorman
Robert S. Cowan, M.D. practiced medicine at Girard for more than twenty years. He was a native of Sullivan County, Tennessee, born March 9, 1833, son of George R. Cowan, a native of East Tennessee. Robert was but a child when his family migrated to Missouri, and he was reared under pioneer influences.
There were no free schools in Missouri, in his younger days, and he gained the preliminaries of his education in the school house that his father erected on his land, under the instruction of a teacher that his father employed. Later, he became a student at Ebenezer College, ten miles north of Springfield, Missouri. He laid a solid foundation for his medical studies, which he commenced at the age of twenty-three, under the tuition of Dr. Samuel B. Bowles, of Greenfield. He afterward further prepared himself for his profession by attending lectures at the Missouri Medical College. He began his career as a physician in Dade County.
Dr. Cowan was practicing medicine in Newton County, when the American Civil War broke out. Having been reared in a slave state, his sympathies went to the Sourthern cause and he offered his services to the Confederate States, in 1861. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the Third Missouri Calvary, and was soon promoted to be Surgeon of his Regiment. He performed valuable service in Price's Army for three years, gaining valuable experience and professional knowledge, skill and ability.
At the end of his service in the CSA, Dr. Cowan went to Mexico, where he spent six months, and then to New Orleans, until the spring of 1865, at which time he moved to Macoupin County, Illinois and opened an office at Nilwood. In 1869, he moved from there to Girard. He was a member of the Macoupin County Society for Medical Improvement and also of the State Medical Society.
Dr. Cowan was happily married in 1854, to Elizabeth Weir, a native of Cooper County, Missouri and a daughter of the Reverend Samuel Weir and Mary B. (Stephens) Weir. They became the parents of five children: George R. Cowan, a graduate of the St. Louis Medical College, became his father's assistant; Mary Cowan, wife of Ed E. McCoy of Springfield, Illinois; Florence Cowan; Dollie Cowan and Elizabeth G. Cowan
Source: Biography of Robert S. Cowan, M.D. Portrait and Biographical Record of Macoupin County, Illinois. Biographical Publishing Company, Macoupin County, 1891, page 320
Contributor:
Jan Gorman
There were no free schools in Missouri, in his younger days, and he gained the preliminaries of his education in the school house that his father erected on his land, under the instruction of a teacher that his father employed. Later, he became a student at Ebenezer College, ten miles north of Springfield, Missouri. He laid a solid foundation for his medical studies, which he commenced at the age of twenty-three, under the tuition of Dr. Samuel B. Bowles, of Greenfield. He afterward further prepared himself for his profession by attending lectures at the Missouri Medical College. He began his career as a physician in Dade County.
Dr. Cowan was practicing medicine in Newton County, when the American Civil War broke out. Having been reared in a slave state, his sympathies went to the Sourthern cause and he offered his services to the Confederate States, in 1861. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the Third Missouri Calvary, and was soon promoted to be Surgeon of his Regiment. He performed valuable service in Price's Army for three years, gaining valuable experience and professional knowledge, skill and ability.
At the end of his service in the CSA, Dr. Cowan went to Mexico, where he spent six months, and then to New Orleans, until the spring of 1865, at which time he moved to Macoupin County, Illinois and opened an office at Nilwood. In 1869, he moved from there to Girard. He was a member of the Macoupin County Society for Medical Improvement and also of the State Medical Society.
Dr. Cowan was happily married in 1854, to Elizabeth Weir, a native of Cooper County, Missouri and a daughter of the Reverend Samuel Weir and Mary B. (Stephens) Weir. They became the parents of five children: George R. Cowan, a graduate of the St. Louis Medical College, became his father's assistant; Mary Cowan, wife of Ed E. McCoy of Springfield, Illinois; Florence Cowan; Dollie Cowan and Elizabeth G. Cowan
Source: Biography of Robert S. Cowan, M.D. Portrait and Biographical Record of Macoupin County, Illinois. Biographical Publishing Company, Macoupin County, 1891, page 320
Contributor:
Jan Gorman
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