Wood Messick Cowan

Background

Cowan, Wood Messick was born on November 1, 1889 in Algona, Iowa, United States. Son of James McKelvey and Raechel Marion (Foster) Cowan.

Education

Student Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago, 1909-1912.

Career

Cartoonist, Chicago Inter Ocean, 1909, New Orleans Item, 1911-1913, Washington Times, 1914-1915. Sports writer, cartoonist Adams Syndicate, New York City, 1918-1924, New York World, 1925-1928, National Education Association Service, 1929-1939. President-editor Artists & Writers Service, newspaper feature service, Westport, Connecticut, 1946.

Comic panel cartoons contributions to Judge, Life, Argosy, Colliers, from 1920.

Editorial cartoonist Bridgeport (Connecticut) Post 1949-1960, New Haven Register, from 1958.

Achievements

• Wood Messick Cowan has been listed as a notable cartoonist, writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Connecticut House of Representatives for Weston, 1951-1953, from 1955. Member of Fairfield County Court House Building Commission, 1956-1957. Member Republican Town Committee of Weston.

Member Westport Artists (president 1949), Artists & Writers Association.

Connections

Married Frances Daines Metcalf, December 15, 1929. Children: Conrad Metcalf, Thaddeus McKelvey.

Father:

James McKelvey Cowan

Mother:

Raechel Marion (Foster) Cowan

Spouse:

Frances Daines Metcalf

child:

Thaddeus McKelvey Cowan

child:

Conrad Metcalf Cowan