Cowley, Joseph Enos, 1849-1929
Dates
- Existence: 1849 - 1929
Biographical History
Joseph Enos Cowley (1849-1929) was pioneer and missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Joseph Enos Cowley, son of Charles Cowley and Ann Killip, was born in Council Bluffs on November 8, 1849. The next year his family moved to Salt Lake City. Ten years later they settled in Logan, Utah. In 1868 he was called to go to Laramie, Wyoming—then the Railroad terminus—to escort Latter-day Saint emigrants into the Salt Lake Valley. On the journey he met Catherine Worley, whom he married on July 5, 1875, in the Salt Lake Endowment House. She died in 1891 and in 1902 he married Bessie W. Jackson. In 1875 Joseph was called to the British Mission and while there visited with relatives on the Isle of Man, obtaining extensive genealogical records of the Cowley family, which he recorded in his father’s journal, housed in this collection. He later performed or saw that the temple work was performed for all of these ancestors. Joseph died on October 17, 1929 in Logan, Utah.
Citation:
The Journal, Logan, Utah, October 22, 1929: (b. Nov. 8, 1849 at Council Bluffs; son of Charles Cowley and Ann Killip; moved to Salt Lake, 1850; settled in Logan, 1860; escorted emigrants, 1868; m. Catherine Worley, July 5, 1875; d. Catherine Worley, 1891; m. Bessie W. Jackson, 1902; called to British Mission, 1875; gathered genealogical records; d. Oct. 17, 1929)Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Arlene B. Jensen collection
Collections contains journals and account books written by Charles Caesar Cowley, Joseph Enos Cowley, and Jens Christian Larsen Breinholt, as well as photographs of Charles Caesar Cowley dating from around 1840 to 1902. These materials were collected by Arlene Jensen, a decendent of these men. Also contains a scrapbook of family history materials compiled by Arlene Jensen in the 1970s and 1980s and a number of documents about the Cowley family.