Biographical Sketch of Rev. John F. COWAN (1881); Chester County, PA

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From THE HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, by Futhey and Cope (1881);

pg. 505

COWAN, Rev. John F., son of Adam Cowan, was born in Sadsbury township, May 8, 
1801.  He learned the printing business in Lancaster, but at the termination of 
his apprenticeship entered upon studies with a view to the ministry.  He 
graduated at Jefferson College in 1824; studied theology in the seminary at 
Princeton, and was licensed to preach April 8, 1829.  He had charge of 
Presbyterian churches in Missouri until the breaking out of the war of the 
Rebellion, when he became chaplain of the military hospital in St. Louis.  He 
there incurred the disease which terminated his life, Sept. 29, 1862.  He was in 
the fullest sense an evangelist, and was instrumental in founding and 
strengthening a number of churches in Missouri.
  He has two sons in the ministry, the Rev. John F. Cowan and the Rev. Edward 
Payson Cowan, the latter now of Germantown, Pa.