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Andrew Cowan came to Schenectady from Scotland in 1797. He later moved to Pontiac, Illinois around the 1850s. He was a land speculator, ran a title abstract company and was involved in Republican politics.
His diary contains nineteen pages of notes about his life and family births and deaths. [View cover image] We are grateful to Howard S. Miller for the donation of this diary. The original size images (1x) are 50-60K, and the enlarged (4x) around 180K.
Transcription of Andrew Cowan's diary remains to be completed.
| Contents of the Diary of Andrew Cowan | |||
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| Page | Page Images | Events | |
| 1 | 1x | 4x | Employees, married, came to Schenectady 1797 |
| 2 | 1x | 4x | Rented house to William McKean beginning in 1790 |
| 3 | 1x | 4x | Rented house to William McKean through 1793, then sold house |
| 4 | 1x | 4x | Married, came to Schenectady 1797, (another) Andrew died 1823 |
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