Thomas Jefferson Cowie
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Thomas Jefferson Cowie (February 15, 1857 – July 16, 1936) was a
Navy Mutual Aid Association
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Biography
Cowie was born at Montezuma, Iowa, in 1857. He served as engineer's yeoman in USS Alliance from January 8, 1877, to October 19, 1878, then enlisted in the Navy October 21, 1878, at Constantinople.
He was commissioned as assistant paymaster from June 16, 1880, rising to the rank of Rear Admiral and the position of Paymaster General and Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts July 1, 1910.
Rear Admiral Cowie was awarded the
Liberty Loans of World War I. Retired from the Navy on February 15, 1921, he was ordered to special duty in charge of the Navy Liberty Loan section of the Navy Allotment Office in March 1921, and in June 1923 was ordered to additional duty as secretary-treasurer of the Navy Mutual Aid Association, a position which he held until his death on July 16, 1936, in Washington, D.C. He and his wife Susie A. Cowie (1859–1938) are buried at Arlington National Cemetery.[1]
Namesake
The destroyer USS Cowie (DD-632) was named in his honor.
Gallery
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Cowie as alieutenant commander, seated on the left in the second row in this photograph of the officers of the protected cruiser USS Chicago, c. 1903.
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References
- ^ Burial Detail: Cowie, Thomas J – ANC Explorer
External links
Media related to Thomas Jefferson Cowie at Wikimedia Commons
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
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