Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-10-27
lTRIBuTE OF REsPECT.
Meeting of the Knoxville BOARD of Trade.
Action In Regard to the Death of Mr.. Jas.
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A meeting ofthe Board of Trade was held a
their Rooms on yesterday morning to take action
on the decease of Mr., James II. Cowan. The
meeting was called to order by Capt. w. w.
Woodruff, who explained the object of their
presence whereupOn, on motion, Henry Ault,
ESQ.,, was called to the chair and Mr. ID. Il.
McClung chosen Secretary.
On motion of Mr.. W. Gaut, a committee of
five was appointed to draft resolutions express
i've of the sense of the meeting, and the follow
ing gantlemen were designated by the chair /:
j. A. Rayl sWnn.a- Williams. A. Il. Gillespie,
Hu. Martin and W. w. Woodruff.
Thelmeeting thenadj djourned until four o. clock
in the afternoon. 20 s13-U-71lUE aH Jlaas'a 2
At the designated hour the Board reassem-
bled, wheri the following preamble and resolu-
tions were read and adopted unanimously
WHEREAS, In the dispensation of Providence,
one of our most respected and highly esteemed
citizens and business men, James ID. Cowan,
has been called to that other and higher life,
the sustaining hope'of all good and just men in
this; and
WHEREAS, 1t is eminently fitting that a life
such as his7-distinguished for those virtues
which so well beft and adorn the business man
and citizen, and upon the practice of which the
happiness and wel-being of the individual and
of society so much depend, should, as matter
of respect to the deceased as well as of profit to
the living receive at our hauds some formal
ResoLued, therefore, That we his associates
and feliow-citizens, have met together for the
purpose of Offering this last sad tribute of re-
spect to his memory, and thus publicly mani
Testing the sincere regard whleh1we entertained
for him. in common with our whole community,
to whom he was alike endeared, for lifetime
practice of patient, persevering industry cour-
teous bearing, a sound business judgment q
high sense of probity, and, above all, for those
Christian virtues which made him an ornament
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plain, unassuming and unostentatious in his
manner, constituted him gentleman of the
trueSt, highest type, and made him altogether
bright and shining example of those qualities
which do the chiefest honor to the citizen, the
business man, the gentleman and the Christian
and that we recognize as the distinguishing fea-
ture in Mr.. Gowns life his Christian character
and that character found its best expression in
his lifelong labor in the Sabbath School of the
church to which he belonged. o.
Resotyed That as a well merited tribute of
respect on the part of the citizens of Knoxville.
to one who has contributed so largely in build
ing up its trade, as well as for the many virtues
by which his whole life was SO eminently dis
tfnguished, we respectfully request that all
business houses and schools be closed between
the hours of q and 5 O'clock PM ETJI u i
Resolved That we offer to the surviving
members of his family the assurance of our
sincere sympathy in the loss which they sus-
tain, and that we share with them the grief
which, while it touches efheart of all who
knew him, falls with heaviest weight on those
who knew him in the near relations of family
and kindred 81 .''.' sleij 81, .,-i..s-. a.. &
Resolved, That copy of these resolutions be
furnished ih q 1M,sTFFRrylYnT M family nya aHAVIA0
VIM. WILLIAMS,
A. L. GILLESPIE, Committee.
HU. MARTIN, .vsT -.--,s s-.-- y
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A. s. Hudiburg, Esq, made some remarks
which were very interesting. He said that he
had known the deceased for more than forty
years, and remembered when as a boy attend
ing Sabbath School, he had recited lessons to
MI Cowan, the teacher of his class. His inter-
est in the Sunday lScho0lawork had continued
until his last Illness During the terrible epi-
demic which ragged in this city. in 1888, Mr..
Cowsn had acted the part of the good Samari-
tan he had paid the last rites to beloved rela-
tives of his own family, besides administering
10 the necessities of numerous others. -t'.tF
Mr.. Rayl said that, he had been raised with
Mr. Cowan and could bear testimony to his
many Christian virtues, and also to his zeal as a
worker in that great auxiliary to the church
the Sunday School ! ssa 80 e.
Other gentlemen also spoken eulogistic terms
of the character of the deceased, after which
the meeting adjourned.