Sedgwick-Cowley-Butler County KS Archives Biographies.....Cowley, Louis K. 1878 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Louis K. Cowley, agent of the Cadillac automobile, with salesrooms at No.
114-116 North Topeka avenue, Wichita, Kan., is a native of the Wolverine State,
having been born at Lansing, Mich., on April 26, 1878. He is a son of J. H. and
Edith (Meade) Cowley, who removed to Lansing from Detroit, and who are both
still living in Lansing, the elder Cowley being a pioneer merchant of the latter
city. Louis K. Cowley was educated in the public schools of Lansing and at the
Michigan Agricultural College, graduating from the latter institution in the
class of 1898. He first entered the employ of Peet Bros., of Kansas City, as a
traveling salesman throughout the Southwest. He took up the real estate business
next, and made a specialty of ranches in Butler and Cowley counties, Kansas,
from 1901 to 1908. In 1907 he began in the automobile business at Winfield as a
side line, and in 1908 found that the business had grown to such proportions
that he dropped the real estate business entirely and moved to Wichita, where he
opened a salesroom, and has since conducted business on a larger scale, making a
specialty of the Cadillac machine, and pushing sales in thirteen counties
adjacent to and in the locality of Wichita. Mr. Cowley is a member of the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He was married in 1902 to Miss Grace
Dunnebacke, of Lansing, Mich., and of this union one child has been born,
Christine Louise Cowley.

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History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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