Calvin Josiah Cowles (1821-1907)

Martha Cowles Recipe Book, 1846

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[Library Title: Calvin J. Cowles papers, 1773-1941 (bulk 1875-1907).]
Manuscript Location
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library
Holding Library Call No.
3808
Manuscript Cookbooks Survey Database ID#
284
Place of Origin
United States
Date of Composition
1846
Description
Martha Cowles' recipe book, dated 1846, is part of the library's collection of the papers of Calvin Josiah Cowles, of Wilkes County, North Carolina. Martha Duvall Cowles (1824-1866) married Calvin Cowles (1821-1907) in 1844; the couple had seven sons. After Martha Cowles' death, Calvin Cowell remarried circa 1870 and had five more children with his second wife.

Calvin Cowles was a  merchant who also owned land in several states as well as copper and mica mines in northwestern North Carolina. He was a Whig and post-war Republican who served as superintendent of the U.S. Mint at Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1869 to 1884 and was a consistent promoter of land, mining, and railroad development in northwestern North Carolina.