Fayette County, TN Genealogy

Goodspeed's History of Tennessee -

Fayette County Biographies

William P. Cowan

Surnames: COWAN, BULL, SIMS

William P. Cowan, an enterprising merchant of La Grange, Fayette Co., Tenn., was born February 3, 1852, in Marshall County, Miss., and is a son of David P. and Lugenia (Bull) Cowan. The father was born in North Carolina in 1811 and died in Marshall County, Miss., in 1854. The mother was born in Middle Tennessee about 1834, and is still living with our subject, who was the only child. William P. Cowan, by his own efforts, secured a good education; then spent twelve years in farming, and then went into partnership with his cousin, John S.R. Cowan, of Moscow, in Fayette County, in the grocery business at La Grange and continued for nine years. In 1882, he commenced the dry goods business in partnership with his brother-in-law, J.B. Sims, and since then has been a leading merchant of the place. They carry a stock valued at $3,000, and he owns a valuable farm of 450 acres in Fayette County. December 20, 1876, he was married to Miss Onion Sims, a native of South Carolina, born October 15, 1853, and they have had three children; one son died, two daughters are living. Mr. Cowan has never united with any church, though a firm believer in the Christian religion and a man of good morals and strict integrity.

[ Index to Goodspeed Biographies - Fayette County ]

[ Return to Fayette County, TNGenWeb ]