Cowell family letters 1867-1869 Cowell family letters

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Cowell family letters 1867-1869 Cowell family letters

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This collection contains letters that Joshua Cowell wrote to his wife Mary in Meridian, New York, while working in Colorado and Wyoming, as well as additional correspondence to Joshua and Mary Cowell.

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William L. Clements Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6392519

William L. Clements Library

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Wilson, Martha

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Cowell, William.

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Cowell, Joshua.

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Cowell family

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Joshua Cowell was born in New York around 1820 and was a farmer in Fulton, Wisconsin, in 1860. He and his wife Mary had four children, all born in New York: Albert, Chancy (or Chauncey), Anna, and Emma. In the late 1860s, Joshua Cowell sought work in Denver, Colorado, and Cheyenne, Wyoming, then part of the Dakota Territory. Mary and her children lived in Meridian, New York, while Joshua was away. He returned to New York before 1880 and was a laborer in Cato. William Cowell, Joshua'...