Biography:  Edward Everett Cowley of Monroe County, Mississippi

Source:  Rowland, Dunbar, ed.  The Official and Statistical Register of 
the State of Mississippi, 1904.  Nashville, Tenn.:  Press of the Brandon 
Printing Company, 1904.  Page 551.

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MONROE COUNTY.
Population, 1900 - 31,216.

EDWARD EVERETT COWLEY, of Amory, was born March 8, 1861, in Hickman County, 
Tenn., and is the son of J. H. Cowley and wife Fanny (Beale) Cowley.  His 
ancestors were from Virginia.  Mr. Cowley attended the primary schools of 
Maury County, Tenn., and Webb's Preparatory School at Bellbuckley, Tenn.; 
entered the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and was 
graduated in 1886; taught school in Monroe County since that time; elected 
to the House of Representatives from Monroe County November 3, 1903.  
Mr. Cowley is a Democrat; member of Christian Church, Knights of Pythias 
and Woodmen of the World; was married June 4, 1890, at Troy, Miss., to 
Della Edmonia Williams, daughter of Nicholas Cooper Williams and wife, 
Savannah.  Mr. and Mrs. Cowley have four children:  Herbert Spratt, Maury 
Baele, Harold Huntsman and Fay.