Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....McGowan, James August 4, 1841 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

McGowan, Captain James, Litchfield, who is serving his second term as assessor 
of the town of Litchfield, has also held the offices of collector and overseer 
of the poor.  He enlisted in Company E., 152d N.Y. Vols., September 6, 1862, 
as a private, and was promoted from ordery sergeant ot first lieutenant, and 
then to captain of the same company and regiment.  He served as captain until 
his discharge at the end of his service, July 14, 1865.  He was born August 4, 
1841, and settled in Litchfield in 1847, and on December 25, 1865, on the farm 
where he now lives.  In 1881 he married Gordena Maxwell.  They have three 
children, Mary Charlott, Florence Grace and William Delano.  Mrs. McGowan was 
born in Scotland June 18, 1848, and came to this town in 1853, to the same 
house where she now lives.


Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.


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