Biography

1814 - 07/21/1877


COWDEN, James, a Representative from Lancaster County; born, circa 1814 in Pennsylvania; merchant; elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1850; ticket agent, Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Philadelphia; died, July 21, 1877 in Pennsylvania; interred, Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.


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