Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Muhlenberg Co.

DR. ALEXANDER McCOWN was born in Muhlenburgh [sic] County, Ky., August 24, 
1819, and is the third of seven boys and four girls born to Joseph and 
Polly (Bell) McCown, natives of Bardstown and Muhlenburgh County, 
respectively.  Joseph McCown located in Muhlenburgh County, about 1811, 
and died in 1868, aged eighty-eight; he was in Gen. Wayne's campaign in 
the Northwest about 1795; was a son of Alexander McCown, who married a 
Miss Uncle.  They were natives of Scotland and Germany.  Alex. McCown was 
a teamster in Washington's army, and later in the war carried a musket; 
was by occupation a hotel-keeper and trader, and built the first house in 
Bardstown, Ky.  Polly Bell was a daughter of Josiah Bell, who married a 
Miss Forbus; they were of English and Swiss descent respectively; they 
came from Virginia to Muhlenburgh in an early day.  Dr. McCown was reared 
on a farm until he was sixteen; he received a fair education at the common 
schools and later attended Morganfield Academy two or three years.  In 
1840, he commenced preaching in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 
traveled for seventeen years preaching; commenced the study of medicine 
and graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine in Louisville in 1860; 
then located five miles northeast of Greenville.  In 1870, he located
where he now resides, and continues his practice with good success.  He now
owns seventy acres of good land.  Dr. McCown was married in May, 1856, to 
Mary Webster of Taylor County, Ky., a daughter of Archibald and Ann W. 
(Hazelwood) Webster, natives of Virginia and of English origin.  The 
Doctor and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church; he is a 
member of the Masonic fraternity and also of the Grange.  They have one 
child - Archibald W. McCown.

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