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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

G. E. COWELL, M. D., physician, Elwood; the subject of this sketch was born in 
Bradford Co, Penn., April 27, 1843. He married Miss Catheron M. FERRYMAN Nov. 8, 
1868; she was born in Guernsey Co, Ohio, Aug. 16, 1843; they have one child living, 
viz., Nellie G. He lived in Pennsylvania twenty-two years, when he came west to 
Illinois, and settled in Grundy Co, at Minooka, where he read medicine; in 1871, he 
graduated at the Hahnemann Medical College, of Chicago, then settled at Elwood, where 
he has followed his profession since. In 1862, he enlisted in 141st Penn. Vol. Inf., 
and was in the service about eighteen months; at the battle of Chancellorsville he 
received five separate wounds, which disabled him from further service. He has held 
the office of Alderman and was President of the Temperance Society.


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HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.