Truman COWLES

                   SOURCES:  1. This Family Group Sheet compiled by Marion Grace Jewell
               Nicholls of Gilbert, Arizona.
          2.  IGI Connecticut (September 1981) - Batch #A455433 (page 1352)
          3.  Book #RD974.6C - Commemorative Biographical Record of Hartford,
               Connecticut (page 1413) Orlando, Florida Public Library.
NOTES:  1. Truman Cowles
           [a]  Well known agriculturalist - residing on South Street, Hartford, Connnecticut
           [b]  Educated in Schools of Bethlehem
           [c]  Did farm work on homestead until age 21.
           [d]  Spent one year - farming on Long Island.
           [e]  1866 - Settled in Hartford - becoming a cleark in a Meat Market.
           [f]  Six years later - he began his own meat market at Number 84 Main Street.
           [g]  Retired in 1894 - among the oldest business men in the city and one of the
                  best known.
           [h]  He had purchased 30 acres of land when he first went to Hartford -
                  Where he resided in 1872 - Building present residence.
            [i]  In 1873 he built a block on Alden Street.
            [j]  He also owns and conducts the old Homestead of 200 acres in Bethlehem.
            [k]  The children were all educated in the South School and Public High School
                   of Hartford, and at Wesleyan Academy Wilbraham, Massachusetts.
            [l]  Family attends Congregational Church.
            [m] Mrs. Cowles was reared in Presbyterian Church - her parents were devout
                   members.