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JOSIAH EVANS COWLES
COWLES, JOSIAH EVANS, Physician and Surgeon, Los Angeles, Cal., was born in Yadkin County, N. C., May 14, 1855, the son of Josiah Cowles, Jr., and Mary (Evans) Cowles. He is a great grandson of Capt. Andrew Carson of Revolutionary fame; nephew of Midshipman Robert Carson Duval, of Commodore Stockton’s flagship Savannah during his conquest of California; nephew of Col. W. H. H. Cowles, noted Confed. Cavl. officer and 2nd cousin, Kit Carson, scout and Indian fighter. Married Ione Virginia Hill, Chicago, Oct. 28, 1890.
Dr. Cowles received his first education in Findley High School and Davenport College, in N. C., and after three years’ civil engineering for various railroads, studied medicine at the University of Maryland, graduating in 1880. He practiced at Edgefield, S. C., and in 1886 went to the N. Y. Polyclinic and Post-Graduate College, and 1887-88 was Physician in Charge, N. Y. Lying-in Asylum and a Lecturer, N. Y. Polyclinic. Located, 1889, Los Angeles and associated with Drs. Walter Lindley and Francis L. Haynes. Later withdrew and established Pacific Sanitarium, which he conducted 8 years, then helped organize, Pacific Hospital.
Member, Am. Med. Assn., L. A. Co. Med Soc., So. Cal. Dist. Soc. and the Med. Soc. of State of Cal.
Transcribed by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 834,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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