Henry Cowles

Henry Cowles (April 24, 1803 – September 7, 1881) was an American theological scholar and abolitionist.

Personal life Cowles, son of Olive Phelps and Samuel Cowles, was born in Norfolk, Conn., April 24, 1803.

He was married, July 30, 1830, to Alice Welch, daughter of Benjamin Welch, M.D., of Norfolk, Connecticut, who died October 14, 1843. They had three sons and three daughters, of whom one son (John Guiteau Welch Cowles) and one daughter (Sarah Florella Cowles) survived him. In March 1844, he married Minerva Dayton. She was the daughter of William Dayton, of Watertown, and widow of Anson Penfield, of Oberlin, who died November 29, 1880. He became the stepfather of Josephine Penfield Cushman Bateham, social reformer, editor, and writer.

Of September 7, 1881, at the age of 78, Cowles died of ataxia while at his daughter Sarah's home in Janesville, Wisconsin.

Education Cowles graduated from Yale College in 1826.

Cowles went to Ohio in 1929, and after laboring about two years in Ashtabula and Sandusky, took charge of the Congregational Church in Austinburg, where he remained until the fall of 1835, when he became Professor of Latin and Greek in Oberlin College. Holiness Of Christians In The Present Life (1841) Gospel Manna for Christian Pilgrims (1847) Ezekiel and Daniel with Notes (1867) The Minor Prophets with Notes (1867) The Minor Prophets with Notes (1867) Isaiah with Notes (1868) The Psalms with Notes (1872) The Pentateuch (1874) Excursus On The Atonement