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William Cowley, M.D.
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Cowley, William, M.D., who has succeeded to the practice established by his father,
the late Dr. David Cowley, in Pittsburg, is a man of talent and culture, well fitted by birth and education for the medical profession. Born in this city, September 8, 1864,
he comes of good old Irish stock. His grandparents, Samuel and Jane Cowley, emigrated from County Down, Ireland, to America in 1831, locating first in Pittsburg. Afterward
they were engaged in general farming at Troy Hill, where the grandfather died in 1870. The grandmother survived him, dying in1895, at the venerable age of ninety years. They
reared seven children, namely: David, the father of Dr. Cowley; William, who was associated with Andrew Carnegie and others in railroad work, and subsequently served and died
in the Civil War; Alexander, of Florida, who was for many years professor of penmanship in Iron City College; Samuel, who was connected with the firm of Beymer, Bauman & Co.,
and was drowned in 1895; John, a plumber, who resides at East End, Pittsburg; Mrs. Margaret Hamilton, who was the wife of an artist in Philadelphia, and died in 1884;
and Mrs. Eliza Tetedoux, whose husband is a teacher of voice culture, and was for some years the leader of the Gounod Musical Club. Dr. David Cowley graduated from the
Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, now Hahnemann College, and began the practice of medicine in Philadelphia in 1852. In 1863 he removed to Pittsburg,
finally locating in 1868 at East End . He was numbered among the leading homoeopathic physicians of the city until his death, which occurred. October 30, 1886. To him and
his wife, whose maiden name was Margaret Mowry, eight children were born. Of these three lived but a brief time. The others are: Margaret, Henry, Eliza, David, and William.
Henry is a Swedenborgian minister, and David is a student.
After obtaining his elementary education in the graded schools of his native city, William Cowley attended the high school for three years. During the season of 1883 and 1884
he was a student at the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, Ill.; and two years later he graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. He then began the practice
of his profession with his father. Since the death of the latter he has followed his profession independently. Dr. Cowley has met with good success in his chosen work, and has
become popular, both as a physician and as a citizen. In politics the Doctor votes for the best men and measures, regardless of party. He is a member of the International Hahnemann Association,
of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of Pennsylvania, and of the Iron City Microscopical Society. In religion he is a New Churchman, or Swedenborgian. He is highly esteemed by the medical fraternity.
Biographical review: containing life sketches of leading citizens of Pittsburg and the vicinity, Pennsylvania. Boston: Biographical Review Pub. Co., 1897, Author: Anonymous.
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