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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

T. J. COWAN.
    T. J. Cowan of Clinton, now county superintendent of schools in Van Buren
county, has reached a creditable and enviable position in educational circles in
his native state. He holds to high standards in his chosen profession and has
inspired teachers and pupils under him with much of his own zeal in the work of
public education. Mr. Cowan came to Van Buren county from Cleburne county, where
his birth occurred January 31, 1888, his parents being William F. and Mary Etta
(Vaughn) Cowan. The father was also born in Cleburne county, while the mother's
birth occurred either in White or Cleburne county. William F. Cowan was a
minister of the Presbyterian church and preached at Heber Springs, Arkansas, and
also in Van Buren county for a number of years, devoting his life to that holy
calling. He departed this life at the age of forty-seven years. His wife died
when but twenty-eight years of age. They were the parents of five children:
Lulu, the wife of W. Bradford, residing at Morrillton, Arkansas; Lela, the wife
of Hebert Mix, a farmer of New Mexico; Mrs. Thonia Moore and Cicero, both
deceased, and T. J., of this review.

    T. J. Cowan was reared in a home of culture and Christian refinement, where
the verities of life are rated at their true value. He was educated in Choctaw,
Arkansas, attending the public schools and passing through consecutive grades to
his graduation from the high school. He later spent a year in study in the State
Normal School at Ada, Oklahoma, and next pursued a course in bookkeeping and
banking in Draughon's Business College at Dallas, Texas. His youthful days were
largely passed on the home farm, with the usual experiences of the farm bred
boy, until he entered the office of county superintendent on the 1st of January,
1921. He is proving most competent in the educational field, having put forth
earnest and effective efforts in systematizing the work of the schools and in
introducing higher standards for the pupil and also in the methods of instruction.

    On the 1st of September, 1914, Mr. Cowan was married to Miss Minnie S.
Rogers, whose family history is given in connection with the sketch of Judge O.
E. Rogers on another page of this work. They have become parents of two
children: Thomas Wynne and Zane Steele.

    Professor Cowan votes with the democratic party, which he has supported
since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. He is a Royal Arch Mason,
holding membership in the lodge of Clinton and the Royal Arch Chapter of
Marshall. He and his family are members of the Christian church and are most
highly esteemed in the locality where they reside, for their influence is ever
given on the side of those forces and projects which make for intellectual and
moral progress.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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