Hugh F. Cowan
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Hugh Cowan May 20, 1867 Bentinck, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | April 19, 1943 (aged 75) Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
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| Occupation | Church Minister, Author, Editor, Historian |
| Spouse(s) | Jean Eloise Wood (1899 – 1943) |
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| Parent(s) | John Cowan Mary McLean |
| Relatives | Lois Ann Fairley (Granddaughter) |
Rev. Hugh Cowan (May 20, 1867 – April 19, 1943) was a Presbyterian Church in Canada and later United Church of Canada minister, author, editor and historian.
Hugh Cowan was born on May 20, 1867 in Bentinck, Ontario, Canada to John Cowan and Mary McLean both of whom were born in Scotland.
In 1893, he finished his Bachelor of Arts degree in Manitoba College. He pursued his Master of Arts at Knox College, Toronto in 1896. He later pursued his Bachelor of Divinity degree at Kingston, Ontario's Queen's Theological College and graduated in 1905.
During Cowan's first ministry at Rutherford Presbyterian Church in Dawn-Euphemia, he met Jean Eloise Wood. They were married on October 31, 1899 in London, Ontario.
Hugh Cowan and Jean Eloise Wood had three daughters and six sons.
Cowan was ordained by the Chatham Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in Canada in August 17, 1897.
Cowan served as a pastor in Oakdale United Church (formerly known as Oakdale Presbyterian Church), and Rutherford Presbyterian Church in Lambton County from 1897 to 1900, in St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in North Easthope and Shakespeare Presbyterian Church in Shakespeare, Perth County, Ontario from 1900 to 1905, a minister in charge of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church in Harwhich Township, Kent County, Ontario, Bethel Presbyterian Church, and The Ridge Presbyterian Church from 1905 to 1913, in Haynes Ave. Church in St. Catharines from 1914 to 1916, Chalmer's Presbyterian Church in Toronto from 1919 to 1921, and in High Park Presbyterian Church in 1922.
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