This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DMQ.2ACIB/1105 Message Board Post: Does anybody know anything about this Cowan or his family? His full name is John Warren Cowan and he was married to an Isabella Dimmock. He apparently founded (with brothers) the Cowan Cocoa Company in Toronto that later merged with Rowntree. I'd appreciate any info. Thanks, Karen Toronto Star Monday, April 6, 1908 COWAN -- At his late residence, 105 St. George St., on Sunday morning, April 5, 1908, John W. Cowan. Funeral on Tuesday at 3 o'clock to Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. Separate page: The death of Mr. John W. Cowan, president of the Cowan Company Limited occurred yesterday at his home, 105 St. George Street. In his 68th year, after an illness of four months; Mr. Cowan had contracted a severe cold and complications followed. Mr. Cowan was born in Tipperary County, Ireland. He came to Canada when a boy of 12, settling first in Montreal and afterward lived in London and Brantford. He came to Toronto thirty-two years ago. For some time, he carried on a tea business, and then, turning his attention the manufacture of cocoa, he founded the company of which he continued the head until his death. Mr. Cowan was a membr of the Board of Trade, the Canadian Manufacturers' Association and Irish Protestant Benevolent Assocation. He attended the Walmer Road Baptist Church and was a Conservative. Mrs. Cowan, two sons and two daughters survive. Mr. Fred W. Cowan and Mr. H.N. Cowan and Mrs. Charles T. Stark and Miss Cowan. Mr. Fred Cowan was run down by an auto recently and is in Grace Hospital suffering from a broken leg.