Salmon Cowles was born in Canonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania, August 31, 1818. His parents were Reverend Salmon and Polly (Miner) Cowles, the former a native of Connecticut, the latter of New York. The family came to Iowa in 1840, locating in West Point, Lee County, where the father had received a call. Salmon Cowles married Rebecca Dunn in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1841, and they had one child. She died in 1844. In 1849 he married Sarah F. Barton in Lee County, Iowa. They had three children. He was a farmer and a merchant. He died January 27, 1894.
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