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ent works in 1855. This building is remem- bered as having a steam whistle, the first fact- ory plant in Warren to use a steam whistle to summon the workmen.
In 1860 Mr. Kingsbury retired, John and Thomas, brothers of Henry W. Brown, be- coming interested with him and operating as Brown Brothers. In 1868 Thomas Struthers acquired an interest in the firm, which then and until 1871 was known as Brown, Struthers & Company. About 1871 Mr. McKelvey be- came a stockholder and the business was incor- porated as the Brown Struthers Iron Works, Mr. McKelvey being elected secretary and treasurer, continuing until 1875, when the company became the Struthers Iron Works, the owner being Thomas Struthers, James C. Wells and Alexander H. McKelvey. This company had a prosperous career and is still in existence, although none of the old partners are connected with it. Mr. Struthers and Mr. Wells are both deceased, and Mr. McKelvey sold his interest in August, 1895, having served as treasurer of the company twenty-five years.
In 1895, after retiring from the iron works, he became interested in life insurance and was manager for one of the leading companies, his territory being the thirty-seventh judicial dis- trict of Pennsylvania. When oil was dis- covered he became interested and has always been a producer, holding at times very large interests in various fields and is still interested in production in Elk and Forest counties, Penn- sylvania, as a partner in the South Penn Oil Company, also has oil interests in Warren county. He retains a lively interest in his old army comrades, and is a member of Lieutenant E. N. Ford Post, Grand Army of the Re- public. In politics he is a Republican, but has never consented to hold public office. In relig- ious faith he is a Presbyterian, having been an active member of the First Presbyterian Church of Warren, Pennsylvania, since 1868, ruling elder since 1872, for many years was clerk of the session and treasurer of the ses- sional funds, has served on the board of trus- tees, and ever since joining the church has been a teacher in the Sunday school. His life has been one of useful activity and no man stands higher in his community.
He married, in 1871, M. Olive James, born in Maine, died January 4, 1905, daughter of David M. and Sophronia James. She was an untiring worker for church and charity, of great public spirit and always interested in
those movements tending toward the public good. She was deeply interested in the cause of public education and in 1894 she led in the movement which resulted in women being selected as members of the board of educa- tion. She was president of the Ladies Auxili- ary of the Young Men's Christian Association, and nobly assisted in raising a goodly sum with which to furnish the association building. She organized the idea of the women in War- ren celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of the town by publishing a "Woman's Centennial Paper." She carried this plan through most successfully as general manager, the issue being the largest ever pub- lished in Warren, five thousand copies of a sixteen-page paper. Financially the result was equally striking. She was an active worker in the Presbyterian church, accomplishing great good in her favorite field of work. Children : I. Hugh K., born August 27, 1876; married Lena Magee, of Scottsburg, New York, July 21, 1909. 2. Kate Winifred, born September 7, 1881, died July 7, 1884. 3. Junius A., born September 24, 1888; he has been in business in Los Angeles, California, since the fall of 1909.
Charles Edward SCHIMMELFENG Schimmel feng was born February 28, 1866, at Honesdale, Wayne county, Pennsyl- vania, son of Henry and Margaret Eliza Schim- melfeng. His father is now one of the most prominent citizens of Ridgway, Elk county, Pennsylvania, being a well known lumberman of the western portion of the state and operat- ing extensively in Elk, Mckean and Center counties.
Charles Edward Schimmelfeng spent his childhood and early youth in Elk county, his education being received in the public schools there, supplemented by a course at the Normal School at Lock Haven, and a business college course at the same place. At the age of twenty years, his education being then completed, he began his career in business life by becoming his father's assistant in the lumber business, having charge of the work in the woods and the oversight of the logs and bark there. He was also engaged about the mills in a different capacity. He continued in association with his father in the lumber business for about six years, and in 1892 came to Warren, where he engaged in producing oil, a business which he
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followed for about seven years. He has also been much interested in horses since coming to this place and has had extensive dealings in this line. At the present time Mr. Schim- melfeng is engaged in the advertising business and has his sign boards distributed throughout the western portions of Pennsylvania and New York. He is a most popular and progressive citizen, and has before him the promise of a very successful and prosperous career ; he is one of the most highly esteemed men of Warren and has a very wide circle of friends and acquaintances by whom he is considered a distinct addition to the social and fraternal life of the place. He is a member of a num- ber of fraternal organizations, belonging to the Knights Templar of Ridgway, and having been made a Mason in Elk Lodge, No. 379, Free and Accepted Masons, at Ridgway.
On March 12, 1908, Mr. Schimmelfeng was married at Jamestown, New York, to Lea Eva Munn, daughter of George B. and Eva Munn, of Warren. Mr. and Mrs. Schimmelfeng have a delightful home at No. 11 Central avenue, Warren, where they take great pleasure in dispensing their hospitality and entertaining their many friends. They have no children.
COWAN The Cowan family in America traces its ancestry to the Colqu- houns of Scotland. Three broth- ers, Ephraim, James and John Cowan, natives of Scotland, came to this country in the early part of the seventeenth century and settled in Massachusetts, John locating at Scituate.
(I) Robert Cowan, a grandson or great- grandson of Ephraim Cowan, removed to what was then known as the Camden Patent, Albany county, New York, some time between 1761 and 1763. He was a soldier of the revolution- ary war, serving in Colonel Van Wert's regi- ment of New York troops, and died some time prior to the year 1790. His wife was Joanna Rogers, said to be a descendant of John Rogers, the English martyr; the marriage occurred before the family settled in New York. They had a son, Ephraim, of whom further.
(II) Ephraim (2), son of Robert and Jo- anna (Rogers) Cowan, was born in the year 1766, at Cambridge, Albany county, now Washington county, New York. He married Sally Wilson, born October 6, 1771, daughter of George Wilson. Children: Samuel, born 1790; Betsy, 1792, at Cambridge; Robert, of
whom further ; Joanna, 1796; Sally, 1798; George Wilson, 1802; Ephraim, 1804; James, 1807, at Fort Ann, New York; John, 1816, at Westport, Essex county, New York.
(III) Robert (2), son of Ephraim (2) and Sally (Wilson) Cowan, was born in 1794, in New York state. He and his brother Samuel served in the war of 1812, their mother spin- ning the yarn and weaving the cloth of which she made their uniforms. In 1819 Robert Cowan was commissioned captain of a com- pany in the One Hundred and Seventieth Regiment of New York militia. About the year 1832 he removed with his family to Car- roll, Chautauqua county, New York; he and his wife were members of the First Congre- gational Church at Jamestown. He married (first) Abigail Sabin, in the year 1818; she was born October 11, 1800, daughter of Tim- othy and Abigail (Heacock) Sabin, and grand- daughter of Lieutenant Zebediah and Anna (Dwight) Sabin, and a descendant of William Sabin, of Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Lieuten- ant Sabin died in 1776 while serving the ex- pedition against Quebec during the revolution- ary war. Abigail Cowan died September 7, 1848. Mr. Cowan married (second) August . 27, 1857, Mary Barber. He died August 5, 1873. Children by first wife: Ephraim, of whom further ; Sally B., born 1824; Robert E., 1825; Abigail Zevier, 1828, married Ser- geant John Thomas ; Betsy Ann, 1830, married (first) Ephraim E. Eddy, (second) C. W. Eddy ; Samuel A., 1834 ; John H., 1837 ; James Otis, 1838.
(IV) Ephraim (3), son of Robert (2) and Abigail (Sabin) Cowan, was born in 1821, at Wales, Erie county, New York. When twen- ty-one years of age he attended the Fredonia Academy for a term, then entered the James- town Academy, where he graduated after four years with the highest honors. He then read law for a year, after which he entered the office of the Jamestown Journal. In July, 1848, he came to Warren, Pennsylvania, in company with Mr. Warren Fletcher, and started the publication of the Mail, as an organ of the Whig party; in 1849 he bought the office and good will of the business and con- tinued in the ownership of the paper, with his sons, Willis and Dwight, as partners, until his death in 1894. In 1856 Mr. Cowan was dele- gate to the convention which nominated Gen- eral Fremont as president, and was subse- quently elected county treasurer, an office
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which he held two years. From 1861 until 1862 he represented Warren and Crawford counties in the assembly at Harrisburg, and from 1862 until 1865 he was clerk in the de- partment of the interior at Washington, D. C., and clerk in the house of representatives. He served several winters as clerk of the Penn- sylvania state senate, and in 1874 was appoint- ed deputy collector of internal revenue for Warren, Mckean, Elk and Cameron counties, Pennsylvania, serving in this capacity for eleven years. For more than four years he acted in the capacity of private secretary to the public printer, Mr. Palmer, and died in Washington, D. C., January 23, 1894. He was a lifelong member of the First Congregational Church of Jamestown, New York, and one of the founders of the Sabbath school of the First Presbyterian Church of Warren, sustaining it until it became an established branch of the church.
Mr. Cowan married (first) April 18, 1850, Melvina Tamar, daughter of John and Betsy (Gilson) King, pioneer settlers in Warren. She was a granddaughter of Tamar Putnam, whose father, Nathan Putnam, was a field officer in the American revolution, and a great-granddaugh- ter of Lieutenant John King, who served in the revolution. Mrs. Cowan's mother, Betsy (Gilson) King, was the daughter and grand- daughter of revolutionary patriots, and a de- scendant of John Whitney, of Watertown, Massachusetts, whose lineage has been traced through the Lancastrian kings of England to the early French monarchs. The line of Na- than Putnam has also been traced back as far as Pepin of Heristal, in France, Mrs. Mel- vina T. Cowan died April 22, 1868. Mr. Cowan married (second) October 12, 1870, Julia Frances Camp, of Forestville, New York, who died May 18, 1887; no children. Mr. Cowan had three children by his first wife: Willis, born 1851 ; Dwight, of whom further ; Clara Belle, married, January 30, 1879, George P. Orr, of Warren.
(V) Dwight, son of Ephraim (3) and Mel- vina T. (King) Cowan, was born September 21, 1853, at Warren, Warren county, Penn- sylvania. He was educated in the local public schools, and when a very young man assisted his father in the office of the Warren Mail, in which paper he is to-day financially interested. In the year 1879 he became a partner with his father, continuing thus until his father's death in 1894, when he and his brother Willis pur-
chased their sister's interest in the enterprise. Mr. Cowan later purchased his brother's inter- est, and conducted the paper alone until fur- ther changes were made in its management. In the year 1900 he became associated with the Pennsylvania Gas Company of Warren in the capacity of collector and clerk. For the past sixteen years he has been a member of the board of assessors, and is a Republican in his politics. From 1887 until 1898 he was a member of Company I, Sixteenth Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, being cor- poral of the company for three years. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war most of the married men dropped out of the com- pany, and Mr. Cowan, with others, joined Company D, Twenty-first Regiment Home Guards. At the close of the war he returned to his old regiment and served out his unex- pired term. He belongs to several fraternal organizations, being a member of Ramona Council, Royal Arcanum, and past noble guard of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Warren. He is a communicant of the Presby- terian church. Mr. Cowan has passed prac- tically all of his life in Warren, having always been identified with the best interests of the city. He is one of the leading citizens, both socially and in business circles, and is esteemed for his talents and public-spirited attitude.
On October 2, 1878, he was married in War- ren to Peoria Anna Thomas, born in Warren, October 30, 1858, daughter of John and Fran- ces Harriet (Payne) Thomas (see Thomas III), and received her education in Warren. She taught school in early life, and is a devout member of the Presbyterian church to many of whose societies she now belongs. She has been superintendent of the primary Sunday school, and president of the Ladies' Aid. She has the unique distinction of having served as one of the directors on the Warren school board, being one of the three women who have been so honored. Mrs. Cowan is eligible to membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution, through both sides of her family, and takes a keen interest in the history and genealogy of her people. Mr. and Mrs. Cowan have the following children : 1. Harriet Luella, born July 13, 1880; married Percy Waters Wilkins, and has two children, Richard Cowan and Stanley Cowan Wilkins. 2. Earl Willis, born March 28, 1884; now in the office of the Hope Natural Gas Company at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 3. Ernestine Cowan, born
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March 2, 1889; attended Oberlin College of Kindergarten and is now a teacher in James- town public school No. 7.
(The Thomas Line).
(I) John Thomas, the earliest recorded pro- genitor of this family, was a native of New York state, born August 30, 17-, died Au- gust 3, 1808. Married, September 10, 1775, Elizabeth Hoff, born January 17, 1750, died August 29, 1805. Children : Jacob, born March 12, 1777; John, November 30, 1778; Isaac, October 25, 1780; Anna, March 24, 1783; Sally, March 12, 1785; Peggy, April 4, 1787; James, September 3, 1789; William, of whom further ; Betsy, February 4, 1800.
(II) William, son of John and Elizabeth (Hoff) Thomas, was born November 18, 1791, died April 28, 1853. He was a millwright by trade, and resided at Jackson Run, Warren county, Pennsylvania. He was a Presbyterian. On May 4, 1823, he married Jane M., daugh- ter of William and Elizabeth Hannah McCon- nell. Her father was a native of Scotland, married in Dublin, Ireland, and died at War- ren, Pennsylvania, March 1, 1858; her mother died February 3, 1850. Children of William and Jane M. Thomas : William J., deceased ; John, of whom further; Joseph, deceased ; Elizabeth; Elisha ; Margaret ; Sarah, deceased ; Mack, deceased ; Mary, deceased ; Henry, de- ceased.
(III) John (2), son of William and Jane M. (McConnell) Thomas, was born Septem- ber II, 1825, at Schenectady, New York. He came witli his parents and six children to Jack- son Run, Warren county, Pennsylvania, when he was eight years old. His first pursuit was lumbering. He served a term as treasurer of Warren county ( 1868-70) and was for a few years proprietor of the "Tanner House," a popular hotel, from 1865 to 1870. He removed from Warren to Falconer, New York, and then to Jamestown, where he followed farming on a large scale until his advanced age made it necessary to retire. In 1861 he enlisted in the Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry and served four years and four months, being first sergeant of Company K. He is a Republican. In 1856 he married (first) Frances Harriet Payne, who died in the year 1864. She was a daugh- ter of Nathaniel and Lucinda (Sill) Payne, her father having been a major in the Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry, enlisting in 1861. She had three brothers, Hervey, Walter and Cal-
vin. Children of John and Frances Harriet (Payne) Thomas : I. Peoria Anna, born Octo- ber 30, 1858; married Dwight Cowan (see Cowan V). 2. Mary Luella, born 1860, died 1880. 3. Berta L., born April 17, 1862; mar- ried James W. Kitchen, of Warren. In 1868 Mr. Thomas married (second) Abigail Zervier Cowan, who was the mother of Robert, who died at the age of sixteen years; and Bessie, who married M. A. Bliss, of Jamestown, New York.
COWAN (V) Willis, eldest child of Eph- raim (3) (q. v.) and Melvina Tamar (King) Cowan, was born in Warren, Pennsylvania, August 14, 1851. He attended the Warren schools, and afterward took a course in a business college in Buffalo, New York. He was taken into partnership in the Warren Mail by his father in 1874. After the death of his father he was editor of the same until he sold his share to his brother in 1905. He has for some time been connected with the Warren Evening Times. He was a member of the Niagara Hose Company for sev- eral years, a member of Company I, National Guard of Pennsylvania, from 1880 to 1887, and a member of the board of assessors until he changed his residence to another ward in 1912. He and his brother were among the public-spirited citizens, who by paying a cer- tain sum every year for five years gave War- ren a free library, and is still a member of the Warren Library Association. He is a straight Republican, a Mason and Knight Templar, and a member of the Royal Arcanum, the Warren County Historical Society, a charter member of the Chamber of Commerce, and was one of the organizers of the Warren County Agricultural Society and secretary of the same for ten years. He has a generous, sympathetic disposition, and has always been actively interested in everything concerning the welfare of Warren. He and his family are members of Trinity Memorial Protestant Epis- copal Church.
He married, September 24, 1878, Lucy Marie Davis, of Watkins, New York. Children, all born in Warren, Pennsylvania, and all edu- cated in the schools of Warren, graduating from the high school, which is one of the finest in the United States: I. Clara Belle, living with her parents. 2. Julia Melvina, married, October 1I, 1911, William Allen Stover, of Ashland, Pennsylvania, now living
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in Duluth, Minnesota. 3. Lucy Marguerite, after graduating in the Normal course of Domestic Science at Drexel Institute, Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania, accepted the position of dietist in the Fabiola Hospital, Oakland, Cali- fornia, where she remained until July, 1909, when she was sent to Manila, Philippine Islands, the first scientific dietist sent there by the government; she remained there in the Philippine General Hospital until the summer of 1911, reaching home September 15, 1911 ; on March II, 1912, she was united in marriage to Leon H. Abbott, of Warren, Pennsylvania ; her health failed as a result of the work in Manila, and she passed away August 29, 1912, aged twenty-six years and eight months; she had a lovable disposition, and was always try- ing to lift up the depressed and unfortunate; she was a charter member of General Joseph Warren Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of Warren. 4. Anna May, mar- ried, November 22, 1911, Willis Ray Eysinger, of Warren, Pennsylvania. 5. Dorothy Davis, living with her parents.
Mrs. Lucy Marie (Davis) Cowan was born in Watkins, New York, the only daughter of Lot Barnum Davis and his second wife, Julia (Hudson) Davis. Lot B. Davis was the eldest son of Greley Davis, born in 1787, in Sara- toga, New York, and Lucy (Dow) Davis, daughter of John Dow, first settler in Read- ing, New York, a member of the New York state assembly from Steuben county for three terms, and judge of the court of common pleas for forty years. He was a son of Ben- jamin Dow, of Voluntown, Connecticut, who served as sergeant in the revolution, son of Ebenezer Dow, one of the founders of Volun- town, one of the founders of the first Pres- byterian church in Connecticut, elder in the same until his death, a justice of the peace under King George II. Ebenezer Dow was the son of Thomas Dow, who was in the Great Swamp fight, December, 1675, and grandson of Henry Dow, of Watertown and Hampton. Greley Davis served in the war of 1812, and his father, Alpheus, and grandfather, John Davis, both served in the revolution. Julia ( Hudson) Davis was the daughter of Dr. Lemuel and Mary Treadwell (Woodruff) Hudson. Dr. Hudson served in the war of 1812-14 as surgeon, and afterward he was appointed brigadier-general in the New York state militia ; he was the son of Asa Hudson, a revolutionary soldier, and his wife, Mary
(Scott) Hudson. Mary T. (Woodruff ) Hud- son was a daughter of Rev. Hezekiah North Woodruff and his first wife, Mrs. Sarah Bart- lett (Alden ) Woodruff. This is quite a nota- ble line. Mrs. Woodruff was the daughter of Dr. John Bartlett, and his first wife. Susanna (Southworth) Bartlett. Dr. Bartlett served as surgeon in the Indian war preceding the revolution, and as surgeon-general of the northern division of the revolutionary army. He was a son of Josiah Bartlett, who married Mercy Chandler, a descendant of the Alden family, and who was a son of Ichabod and Elizabeth ( Waterman) Bartlett. Ichabod was a son of Benjamin and Sarah ( Brewster) Bartlett. Sarah was the daughter of Love and Sarah (Collier) Brewster. Benjamin was a son of Robert Bartlett, who married Mary, daughter of Richard Warren. Dr. John Bart- lett married Susanna Southworth, at Duxbury, Massachusetts, 1753. He married (second) Lucretia Stewart or Steward, at Stonington, Connecticut, 1761. Susanna (Southworth) Bartlett was a daughter of Jedediah and Han- nah (Scales) Southworth, Jedediah being the son of Thomas Southworth and Sarah, daugh- ter of Jonathan (2) Alden. Thomas was the son of Edward (3) Southworth, who married Mary Pabodie, granddaughter of John Alden. Edward (3) was the son of Constant South- worth, an officer in the Pequot war, and treas- urer of Plymouth colony for sixteen years. Constant Southworth married Elizabetli Col- lier, and was himself the son of Edward (2) Southworth, who married Alice Carpenter. Edward (2) was the son of Thomas and Jane (Wynne) Southworth, and Thomas was the son of Edward (I) and Jane (Lloyd) South- worth. Edward ( 1) was the son of Christo- pher (2), son of Sir John Southworth, who married Lady Ellen of Walton. Sir John was the son of Sir Christopher (1) Southworth, whose wife was Lady Isabella de Dutton.
Thus Mrs. Cowan can claim as ancestors, Richard Warren, William Molines, John Al- den, Elder William Brewster and son, Love Brewster, of the "Mayflower" voyagers. The Southworth lineage has been traced to Charle- magne the Great, Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror, to the earliest of the French and Saxon kings and allied families. Among her English ancestors Mrs. Cowan numbers six Knights of the Garter, including one of the founders, namely : Sir Thomas de Holland, first Earl of Kent; Sir Thomas de Holland,
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second Earl of Kent; Sir Richard Fitz-Allan, Earl of Arundel, died in 1375; James d'Aud- ley, fourth Baron Audley, of Heleigh, 1316- 87; Ralph de Stafford, first Earl of Stafford, one of the founders, born in 1299, and Sir Robert d'Holland, in Parliament in 1314, died in 1328. Also eight Magna Charta Sureties, namely : Sair de Quincy, first Earl of Win- chester, died 1219; John de Lacie, Earl of Lincoln, died 1240; Roger Bigod, created Earl of Norfolk, 1189 A. D., and his son, Sir Ralph Bigod, Knight ; Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Glou- cester ; Richard de Clare, sixth Earl of Clare, fourth Earl of Hertford; Robert de Ros, Lord of Hamlake, died 1227; William d'Albini, died 1236.
Although domestic in her tastes, Mrs. Cowan has always taken an active part in the social and church life of Warren, as a member of several clubs, societies, etc. In 1891 she was appointed a member of the county committee on Woman's Work, an auxiliary of the Board of World's Fair Management. She is a life member of the executive committee of Trinity Guild, a director of the Warren County His- torical Society, and charter registrar of the General Joseph Warren Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Her member- ship papers were endorsed by Miss Eugenia Washington, of Washington, D. C., and ac- cepted October, 1892. In 1904-05 she trans- ferred to the Tidioute Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and served as regis- trar of that chapter for five years, until the organization of the chapter in her home town, 19II.
GOAL John Goal, the progenitor of the Goal family in Pennsylvania, was a native of Alsace-Lorraine, France, coming to America with his young family in the summer of 1851, and locating first in Lan- caster county, Pennsylvania. He was a cabinet- maker, which trade he followed all his life, uniting with it the business of local under- taker. After remaining in Lancaster county a few years, he removed to Clarion county and located on a farm near Fryburg, where he died shortly after and was buried there. This was somewhere about the year 1870, Mr. Goal being then sixty-two years of age. His wife, Barbara (Stroeble) Goal, died about 1882, aged seventy-three ; no other member of her family ever came to America. Mr. and Mrs.
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