Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 1 December 2004

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DAVID R. COWAN, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Turtle Creek Township, Warren Co., Jan. 16, 1829; he is the son of Charles and Jane W. (McPherson) Cowan, of Warren Co.; his father was a native of Virginia and his mother of Kentucky. His grandfather, James Cowan, was a native of Berkeley Co., Va., who emigrated to Ohio in 1800 and settled on the east half of Sec. 17, two miles west of Lebanon, where he died in 1815, leaving four sons, viz.. Charles, John, James, Jr., and William, and one daughter, Mrs. Macaiah Reeder. who all, with two exceptions, died on the home farm. On. this farm our subject was born, and here he has spent the whole of his life. His sole occupation has been that of a farmer, and in this he has been very successful. He was married in 1856 to Miss Amy A. Thompson, a daughter of John H. Thompson, of Warren County, Mr. Cowan is in politics a Republican.