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Joseph Hubert Cogswell served as Captain, Major, Lieutenant-Colonel,
and Brevet-Colonel in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment New York
Volunteers, in the War of the Union. His military career commenced Sept. 6,
1S62, and terminated only with the end of the war in 1865. He was appointed
by President Grant, Postmaster in Titusville, Pa., May 6, 1869, and having
been reappointed three times by succeeding Presidents, still held the office
in 1884. Col. Cogswell was a printer and publisher. He published the Titus-
ville Herald for several years. His brother-in-law, William H. Fowler, Esq.,
was the Manager and Secretary of the Gas Works in Titusville. Col. Cogswell
and his sister, the only surviving children of Samuel O. Cogswell, in memory
of their father, and in respect for his birthplace, presented at its dedication, in
18S3, a fitting memorial to the new Congregational Church of Richmond, Mass.
IHrmor antra.
ha.ic If. BIlvs. the maternal graiulfather of Col. Cogswell, was in the Kevohitiona] v
War from .\ to Z. This Revolutionary patriot had five grandsons in the War of the Union,
three of whom filled soldiers' graves. Col. Cogswell in a letter dated M.-iv g, iSSi, wrote:
" I have not a Cogswell relative in the world that I know of, except my immediate family."
Gcorgf K. Harley, son of James 1'. and Emily (Kimball) Harley, who married .Mice H.
Cogswell [ 2144 ], was a Broker in Tetroieum.
Joseph H. Cogswell [ 2145 ] removed, May. iSSi, to .Arizona Territory; was Deputy Sheriff
of Cochise Co., and Postmaster in Tombstone, where he resided. In iS,S3, he took up a ranchc
in San Simon V.iilev, .Arizona.
CHARLOTTE MARIA CUCSWELL.
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Ch.\rlotte Makia^ Cogswell, {Saniiu-l Olmslead', Saii/ut'/'', Samjid'\
Joseph^, Stvniu-!^, 'Jokifi, John'^), daughter of Samuel Olmstead"
\ {911 and Sarah E. (Bloss) Cogswell, was born April 23, 1833. in
Brighton, N. Y. She married, Feb. 2, 1870, Wiiliavi H. Foivhi, £s,/.
He was born in Daiiingtun, England. They resided in Titusville, Pa.
THHIK O.NL^ I HUH WAS:
in//iell, b. May 26, 1S71.
MELISSA COGSWELL.
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Mellssa* Cogswell, (So/omoir, Solomoifi, Nathan-', yosif/i*, S
ue/^, Johfi, jFo/iii^), daughter of Solomon' [9911 and Rhoda (Wilci