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Gordan Cowan 1897 - 1976

Gordan Cowan of Ferriday, Concordia County, Louisiana was born on March 30, 1897, and died at age 79 years old in April 1976.
Gordan Cowan
Ferriday, Concordia County, Louisiana 71334
March 30, 1897
April 1976
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Gordan Cowan's History: 1897 - 1976

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    1897

    Birthday

    March 30, 1897
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  • 04/dd
    1976

    Death

    April 1976
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    Gordan Cowan lived 6 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 79.
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In 1897, in the year that Gordan Cowan was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1901, at the age of just 4 years old, Gordan was alive when the first Nobel Prizes were awarded. Chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896, had provided in his will for prizes in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine, who have produced the most distinguished literary work of an idealist tendency, and who have contributed the most toward world peace. The winners in 1901 were: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen for physics, Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff for chemistry, Emil Adolf von Behring for physiology or medicine, Sully Prudhomme for literature, and Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy for peace.
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