E. D. Cowen Biography


	This biography appears on page 1890 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
	OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net.

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	E. D. COWEN, D. D., was born in Pennsylvania and during his 
earlier years attended school in the neighborhood of his place of 
nativity. At a late period he became a student at the Northern Illinois 
College, located at Fulton, after which he took up the study of 
medicine and eventually completed his education in the Bennett Medical 
College, of Chicago. After he secured his diploma he lost no time in 
seeking an eligible location for a young doctor and found employment 
for some years at various points in Iowa and Illinois. Finally he 
decided to cast in his lot with the rising young state beyond the 
Missouri which but a few years before had been admitted into the Union. 
Arriving in South Dakota, he selected McCook county as the theater for 
his future operations and without loss of time was soon practicing his 
profession among the people of this prosperous section of the great 
northwest. Making his headquarters at Canastota, his energy and 
affability soon brought him business and during his five-years 
residence in this place he has done a good and growing business. Dr. 
Cowen is a Republican in politics and as a candidate of that party was 
elected coroner of McCook county at the last election for a term of two 
years.

	Dr. Cowen was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Gage. He is 
a member of the church of God and has fraternal connections with the 
Masonic fraternity, Modern Woodmen, the Yeomen and Home Guardians.