This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cowan, Newcomb, Williams Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DMQ.2ACIB/771.1 Message Board Post: The full transcript of the biography of Harry Manney Cowan from "Who's Who in Kern County, 1939" (pub by Wilson & Peterson, 1940) COWAN, H. Manney. Parents, James W. and Jennie (Williams) Cowan. Born, Cowan, Tenn., Oct. 27, 1884. Married, Anita Pearl Newcomb, July 27, 1909. Educated, Elementary schools Franklin County and Hampton Spring Bluff Academy, Meredionville, Ala. Occupation: Shovel Operator Monolith Portland Cement Co., Monolith, Calif. From 1910 to 1922, he was a member, clerk and chairman, Shafter School District Board of Trustees. During this period, the school grew from one teacher to three. Since 1924, he has been a member Tehachapi Elementary School District Board of Trustees of which he was clerk in 1927 and chairman since 1930, thus giving twenty-eight years of school trustee service in Kern County. Member of the Board that started and will complete the building program establishing the present Tehachapi schoool plant on the unit plan. Work started in 1926. He was engaged in farming in the Kern Island district, 1905-06. In the Kern River oil fields with the Imperial, Associated, Sec. 6 ! Oil Companies, 1906-1910. Back in farming on Kern Island, 1920-1923. He came to Tehachapi, 1923, and became connected with the Monolith Portland Cement Co., and has been a Shovel Operator since 1936. Member: Tehachapi Lodge No. 313, F. & A. M.; Tehachapi Grange, charter member and member executive committee; Federal Credit Union of the Farm Credit Administration, Kern County; Tehachapi Local No. 52, Cement Workers Union, of which he served as Guide. He is a past member of Oil Workers Union No. 92, Bakersfield. He came to Kern County in 1905. Recreations: Farming, hunting, fishing. Address: 129 East D street, Tehachapi, Calif. NOTE: See also bio for NEWCOMB, Anita Pearl -- her bio indicates his first name was Harry. I am not related to this family and have no other information about them. I'm just making the most of a $2.00 buy on eBay... If this helps you, please "pay it forward" by helping another researcher. Colleen Kayter