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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

REV. Samuel COWELL, Episcopal clergyman, Lockport; was born in Providence, R. I., 
July 3; 1820 at the age of 20, be graduated at Brown University; he then studied 
law one year with his father, the Hon. Benj. COWELL, Chief Justice of Court of Common 
Pleas of Rhode Island; in 1844, he was ordained as an Episcopal Minister; he first 
preached in Western Pennsylvania for seven years; in 1854, he moved to Saco, Maine, 
and was Pastor of Trinity Church four years; in June 1858, he came to Lockport, and 
was Pastor of St: John's Episcopal Church four years and Chaplain of State Penitentiary 
four years under the appointment of Gov. BISSELL: although compelled by ill health to 
retire from the ministry, Mr. COWELL has been engaged upon missionary work, and laid 
the corner-stones of two churches at Lockport and New Lenox, in this county; he now 
resides on his farm, about one and one-half miles from Lockport. Married Margaret 
MARSHALL in Washington, Penn., Oct. 4, 1852; she was born in Washington, Penn., Oct. 
27, 1829; they had five children, four of whom are living.


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