When Matthias Foss Cowley was born on 25 August 1858, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Matthias Cain Cowley, was 28 and his mother, Sarah Elizabeth Foss, was 30. He married Abbie Hyde on 21 May 1884, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States in 1920 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 16 June 1940, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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"\""During the end of April, David Reese and his company settled the land north of the Logan River. That area was the second permanent settlement in Cache Valley and the future location of Logan. The city's boundary was drawn by Logan's first bishop, Jesse W. Fox, a government engineer. The name \""\""Logan\""\"" comes from a trapper that used to frequent the area before the pioneers came to the valley.\"""
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Cowley. One in Gloucestershire is named with Old English cū ‘cow’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’; two in Derbyshire have Old English col ‘(char)coal’ as the first element; and one near London is from Old English cofa ‘shelter, bay’ (see Cove ) or the personal name Cofa. The largest group, however, with examples in Buckinghamshire, Devon, Oxfordshire, and Staffordshire, were apparently named as ‘the wood or clearing of Cufa’; however, in view of the number of places called with this element, it is possible that it conceals a topographic term as well as a personal name.
Irish: shortened form of Macaulay (see McCauley ).
Manx: shortened form of Gaelic Mac Amhlaoibh ‘son of Amhlaoibh’ (a Gaelicized form of Old Norse Óláfr). For an alternative Manx form of the same patronymic see Callow .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesFrom talk entitled "Live the Lord's Plan" given by Matthew Cowley in March 1952 at the Portland Stake Conference (from the book "Matthew Cowley Speaks"): Well, we had this beautiful home built in P …
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