{"id":3189,"date":"2012-11-10T08:45:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T14:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:24:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:24:52","slug":"cowan-george-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/cowan-george-i\/","title":{"rendered":"COWAN, George I."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Franklin<\/p>\n<p><strong>COWAN, George I., <\/strong>farmer and insurance agent; born Derry Co., Ireland, Oct. 15, 1842; son of <strong>Robert W.<\/strong> and <strong>Hannah (Limerick) COWAN<\/strong>; educated in the local schools of Shelbyville, Bedford Co., Tenn.; after leaving school enlisted in the Confederate army \u00a0under <strong>Gen. N. B. FORREST<\/strong>, with rank of Lieut., commanding his escort last year of war; entered a wholesale house in Nashville, Tenn., as clerk, later proprietor until 1888; at present engaged in farming and insurance business at Franklin, Tenn.; married <strong>Hattie McGAVOCK<\/strong> Jan. 3, 1884; member Masons, Royal Arch and Knights of Pythias;\u00a0 Democrat; former chairman of Co. Executive Committee; member of Presbyterian church and Elder in same.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editorial Note: It appears George&#8217;s middle initial should be &#8220;L&#8221; (for Limerick), instead of &#8220;I.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Franklin COWAN, George I., farmer and insurance agent; born Derry Co., Ireland, Oct. 15, 1842; son of Robert W. and Hannah (Limerick) COWAN; educated in the local schools of Shelbyville, Bedford Co., Tenn.; after leaving school enlisted in the Confederate army \u00a0under Gen. N. B. FORREST, with rank of Lieut., commanding his escort last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4407,232,4419],"tags":[696,1627,1486],"class_list":{"0":"post-3189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bedford","7":"category-surname-c","8":"category-williamson","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-cowan","11":"tag-limerick","12":"tag-mcgavock","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14922,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions\/14922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}