BIO: Daniel Stewart McGOWAN, M.D., Fayetteville, Franklin County, PA

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Medical Men of Franklin County, 1750-1925 by Ambrose Watts Thrush, M.D.;
Chambersburg, Pa.; Medical Society of Franklin County, Page 252
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DANIEL STEWART McGOWAN, M. D.
1808-1855

  D. S. McGowan was born August 25, 1808, near Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa.  
His grandfather was of Scotch descent and had emigrated from the north of 
Ireland.

  D. S. McGowan was educated at Dickinson College, Carlisle, and then followed 
lectures at the Washington Medical College, Baltimore, Md., graduating from this 
college with a degree of M. D. in the spring of 1832.

  He began at once the practice of medicine in Everett, Pa., but in the fall of 
1832 he came to Fayetteville and bought the practice of Dr. Charles P. Cummings 
who discontinued medicine to enter the ministry.  Dr. McGowan lived in 
Fayetteville and followed his profession the rest of his life, and became one of 
the leading physicians of the County.  He died at forty-seven years of age and 
his body was interred in the Covenanter Churchyard at Scotland, Pa.  His grave 
there is not marked.

  Dr. McGowan married in 1832, Anna Thomson, born 1809, died 1877, a daughter of 
John Thomson and a granddaughter of Alexander Thomson who first settled at 
Scotland, Pa.