McGOWEN, (Dr.) C. A., Henry County, MS., then Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical
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DR. C. A. McGOWEN, JEANNERETTE.--Dr. McGowen was born in Henry county,
Mississippi, 1849.  He is the son of Hugh and Gabrielle (Bracy) McGowen. 
Hugh McGowen was a native of South Carolina, born in Sumpter county,
1799.  He removed to Mississippi at an early age and married Gabrielle
Bracy, a native of that State.  Locating in Columbia, which at that time
was the capital of the State, he was for some time engaged in general
mercantile business.  In politics he was a Whig, and was always
prominent in the manipulation of party affairs, and represented his
district in the State Legislature in 1835.  He died in 1858, his widow
surviving him until 1860.

Dr. McGowen attended the schools at Columbia until he was thirteen years
of age.  His father having died the year previous, he entered the
Confederate army and enlisted in the Fourth Mississippi Cavalry.  Under
Chalmers and Forrest he served during the whole war.  After the close of
the war he matriculated in the Ohio Dental College at Cincinnati, where
he remained for two years.  After completing his course he removed to
Northern Louisiana, where he practised [sic] his profession
successfully.  After a year he returned to his plantation in
Mississippi.  A year's experience as a planter satisfied Dr. McGowen
that he could achieve more success in his profession.  He located in
Summit, Mississippi, where he succeeded in building up a lucrative
practice.  In 1876 he married Miss Florence Bussey, native of Indiana,
and a daughter of Dr. Harvey Bussey, the noted surgeon in the Federal
service during the war.  In 1877 Dr. McGowen engaged in the drug
business in Summit, and in 1879 he removed to Jeannerette, where he has
since practised his profession, in connection with which he has a drug
and stationery store.  He has been very successful in his business.

The doctor is a member of the I. O.O. F. Lodge, No. 93.  He assisted in
organizing the Knights of Pythias organization in Jeannerette, of which
he is a charter member.

Dr. McGowen and wife are the parents of three children, viz.;  Alice
Lee,  Alfred Bussey, and  Mary Florence.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
pp. 123-124.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The
Gulf Publishing Company.