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Gustavus C. Cowger
Born - August 4, 1820
Highland County, Ohio
Married - May 20, 1842
Rush County, Indiana
Residence - 1850 - District 13, Wapello County, Iowa
Residence - 1870 - Burr Oak, Doniphan County, Kansas
Died - August 27, 1884
Wathena, Doniphan County, Kansas
Wife - Susannah "Susan" (Cowger) Cowger
Born - 1824 - Ohio
Died - 1862
Born - March 28, 1843
Rush County, Indiana
Married - January 15, 1859
Died - June 15, 1934
Husband - John T. Harper
Born - December 5, 1838 - Indiana
Died - June 22, 1917
J. T. HARPER
J. T. HARPER, farmer, P. O. Leona, was born in Hendricks County, Indiana., December 5,1838. He is the son of Jesse and Mary A. Clifton Harper, both natives of Kentucky. His early schooling was received in Andrew County, Mo., having completed his studies in Doniphan County, Kansas. Farming has always been his occupation. He was married in this county January 15, 1859, to Miss Rachel A. Cowger, daughter of G. C. and Susan Cowger, natives of Indiana. She was born March 28, 1843. He enlisted in Company I, Seventh Kansas Cavalry, and was mustered out in 1865. He came to Kansas in 1855 and settled in this township, and is engaged in farming and stock-raising. Mr. Harper is a Republican.
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Son - William M. Cowger
Born - 1845 - Rush County, Indiana
Died - November 16,1862
Camp Babcock, Arkansas
Buried - Fayetteville National Cemetery Fayetteville
Washington County, Arkansas
Plot: 10 - 0 - 857
Born - March 9,1847 - Wapello, Louisa County, Iowa
Married - April 14, 1864
Died - April 25, 1880
Buried - Pleasant Hill Cemetery
Doniphan County, Kansas
Husband - James Paxton Harper
JAMES PAXTON HARPER
Among the pioneer farmers of Doniphan county is numbered this gentleman, who at an early day took up his abode in Kansas before the admission of the state into the Union and when the work of civilization was yet in its infancy here. Much of the land was still in its primitive condition and the now thriving towns and cities were then unfounded. Today Mr. Harper is an important factor in conducting one of the leading mercantile establishments which contributes to the commercial activity and prosperity of Doniphan county, being a senior member of the firm of J. P. Harper & Son, dealers in lumber and coal in Leona. A native of Hendricks county, Indiana, he was born on the 2nd of February, 1834, and is a son of Jesse and Mary A. (Clifton) Harper. The father was born in Kentucky February 2, 1813, and the mother was a native of Virginia. In 1844 they emigrated to Nodaway county, Missouri, where the father died. The children in his family were: J. Paxton; Frances M., who died in Doniphan county in 1868; and John T. James Paxton Harper spent the greater part of his youth in Nodaway county, Missouri, and is indebted to the country schools for the educational privileges he enjoyed, his advantages in that direction, however, being somewhat limited, but reading and the experiences in the practical affairs of life have brought to him broad knowledge. He came to Kansas in 1854 when twenty-one years of age and pre-empted a claim. Not a furrow had been turned or an improvement made on the place, but with characteristic energy he began its development, and his farming operations have been interrupted only by his service in the civil war. He was a member of Company I, Seventh Kansas Cavalry, in which he enlisted, on the 28th of October, 1860. He served under Colonels Jennison, Lee and Herrick, in the order named, and Lieutenant-Colonels Anthony and Malone were also in command at different times. The regiment was a part of the Sixth Army Corps and participated in the battle of Rienzi, the only engagement in which Mr. Harper took part. He was discharged in the spring of 1863 and upon his return to Kansas again engaged in general farming and the raising of cattle. On the 14th of April, 1864, Mr. Harper married Barbara J. Cowger, and to them were born a number of sons and daughters, as follows: Thomas M., James G., Rufus C., John W., C. L., Mary S. and Minnie M. The mother died April 4, 1880, and Mr. Harper wedded Polly Morgan in 1884. Their children are Anna, Myrtle, Raymond P., Ernest, Miles, Hazel and Decorah. Mr. Harper is an honored and reliable Republican of Wolf River township and his attendance as a delegate to the conventions has been frequent. His faith in his party has been consistent and he has never felt the necessity of working against any measure in the state or national platforms as a rebuke to the party's misdoings. He strongly favors the extension idea, believing in the excellencies of the islands which have come to us through the Spanish-American war. As a business man he is energetic and thoroughly reliable, and in addition to his general farming and stock raising interests he is associated with his son in the conduct of a lumber and coal business, which is bringing to them a good income, for they have secured a liberal patronage along that line
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Son - Robert Hays Cowger
Born - January 1849
Wapello, Louisa County, Iowa
Born - 1851 - Wapello, Iowa
Died - March 3, 1870
Husband - William Eye
Born - 1832 - Virginia
Born - February 9, 1853
Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa
Married - November 14 1881
Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri
Died - May 4, 1942
Hiawatha, Doniphan County, Kansas
Born - March 31, 1850 - Falster Island, Denmark
Died - December 22, 1925
Hiawatha, Doniphan County, Kansas
Daughter - Sarah E. Cowger
Born - 1857 - Wapello, Louisa County, Iowa
Son - Phillip Burton Cowger
Born - July 25, 1858 - Kansas
Married - 1890
Wathena, Doniphan, Kansas
Died - August 30, 1913
Wathena, Doniphan, Kansas
Wife - Noretta (Lavering) Cowger
Born - November 28,1872 - Kansas
Died - July 15, 1936
Wathena, Doniphan, Kansas
Noretta's Father - Jacob Lavering
Born - August 6,1837 - Ohio
Died March 2, 1930
Noretta's Mother - Cinderella Lavering
Born - December 4,1848 - Kentucky
Died - January 17, 1923
To This Union 3 Children Were Born
Daughter - Edna Cowger
Born - October 1890 - Kansas
Daughter - Anna Cowger
Born - March 1893 - Kansas
Son - Chester Grant Cowger
Born - March 5, 1895 - Kansas
Died - 1950 - Kansas
2nd Wife - Sarah Ann (Wheeler) Cowger
Born - 1832 - Indiana
Died - 1907 - Doniphan County, Kansas
Daughter - Harriet B. Cowger
Born - 1864 - Kansas
Daughter - Eva M. Cowger
Born - 1867- Kansas
Daughter - Martha A. Cowger
Born - 1870 - Kansas
Daughter - Ettie Louise Cowger
Born - September 21, 1874 - Kansas
Died - August 21, 1881 - Kansas
Father - George Cowger
Mother - Eve (Rasier) Cowger
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