55y
Married
Main and Gowen Avenue, 22nd Ward
1885-02-17; Paper: Philadelphia Inquirer
"JAMES E. Gowen
James Emmet Gowen, died at his residence at Mount Airy, yesterday, February 16, at 2:30 P. M.
The immediate cause of his death was blood poisoning, resulting from an abscess which had confined him to the house for ten days past. Some time ago, he met with a fall, which occasioned the formation of an abscess in the groin. He was attended by Dr. Agnew, and to obviate the danger of blood poisoning from inward discharge, an operation was performed on Friday last. The opening afforded the sufferer immediate relief and the best hopes were entertained for his safe recovery. But it was presently evident that another pus sac was forming, and as the patient was unable to sustain another operation, had such a resort ben possible, a fatal termination of the case was seen to be inevitable.
Mr. Gowen sank rapidly, and yesterday afternoon, passed peacefully away, surrounded by mourning friends and solaced by every attention that human care and skill could offer.
Mr. Gowen was in the fifty-sixth year of his age, in the maturity of his powers, and held the honorable position of one of the most able and distinguished members of the Philadelphia bar. He was born in Mount Airy, where he has always resided, being a brother of Mr. Franklin P. Gowen.
His father, the late James Gowen, of Mount Airy, was a highly esteemed and successful merchant of Philadelphia, who retired to Mount Airy in his later years, after a fortunate and creditable career in commercial pursuits. His mother was Mary Miller, daughter of Joseph Miller, of Germantown, a direct descendant of Sebastian Miller, who came to this country with Pastorius, the original settler of Germantown, who received a grant of 6000 ares of land from William Penn in 1689.
Mr. Gowen was admitted to the bar on May 10, 1851. About the year 1862 he entered the office of St. George Tucker Campbell, and after the death of that eminent counselor he succeeded t the solicitorship of the Reading Railroad, and to the large practice of the office, which in his hands, has extended to one of the most active and important corporate connection in the country. Mr. Gowen has taken part in all the leading railroad litigations current in our courts during the past twenty years. He was counsel for the Reading Railroad Company in all the complicated legal proceedings in which that company has been involved, his most recent appearance in behalf of this company of public note being the Dinsmore case, in which Roscoe Conkling, George M. Robeson, Clarence Seward, Franklin B. Gowen, and a host of brilliant luminaries of the bar took part. He was also, in the course of his career, counsel for the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and other great corporations of this Commonwealth. He had charge of the Pennsylvania Railroad's legal affairs for several year, his last appearance on behalf of that company being in the Pittsburgh Steubenville Railroad litigation. He had charge, too, of the important litigation of the Lehigh Valley Company with the Lehigh Navigation Company at the time of the construction of the Lehigh an Susquehanna Railroad. In these and many other important railroad cases Mr. Gowen's erudition and judgment have been of weight and moment in giving form to the legal relations, responsibilities and privileges of our great corporations. He was of enduring physique and capable of toiling with intense application, and in the study of a case his labor was unremitting and indefatigable. He was always an earnest student, and having mastered the most difficult and complex involutions of his brief, which he did with the learning and acumen of a powerful legal mind, he had the faculty of presenting his case in the purest, most concise and forcible terms that the English language affords. His quick comprehension, his unwearying industry, his earnestness of purpose, his impressiveness of manner and elegance of diction, all contributed to make him one of the most effective practitioners at our bar.
Mr. Gowen was of retiring disposition, domestic in habit, and a great lover of home. He was affectionate with his friends, exceedingly kindhearted, and especially considerate and tender toward those who were anything like a dependent relation toward him, many a young student and tyro in the courts remembering his consideration of them with appreciative gratitude.
He was always devoted to his profession and his home life, and although a consistent and interested Democrat in politics, was never willing to take a conspicuous position in party or public affairs. On the 30th of August, 1876, he was nominated by the Democracy for the office of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, but persisted in declining the honor.
The nominees weere Thomas J. Ashton, William H. Brown, George W. Arundel, John I. Rogers, Thomas Greenbank, George M. Dallas, Peter McCall an James E. Gowen. On the last ballot, Mr. GOwen received 30 votes, Mr. Brown 18, and Mr. McCall 13.
In declining the nomination, Mr. Gowen said "I highly appreciate the honor which the convention has conferred on me, and the opinions which you have expressed as to the motive which should control nominations for judicial offices have my entire concurrence, although I cannot assume that, as regards myself, the result of the action of the convention is as commendable as the intention by which it was dictated.
But I regret to say, however, that my personal engagements are of such a character as renders it impossible for me to become a candidate for the office in question. I therefore decline, with many thanks, for the courteous manner in which you have discharged your duty."
Thomas J. Ashton , who was admitted to the bar in 1856, fro the office of St. George Tucker Campbell, was afterwards nominated to the vacancy on the ticket.
Mr. Gowen leaves three daughters and two sons, Mr. Francis I. and Mr. Frederick C. Gowen, the former a lawyer, who will undoubtedly succeed to his father's practice, and the latter a student of divinity of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The first wife of the deceased was Miss Clementine [Inues?], and the second, who survives him, was Miss Emeline Hopkins.
It is understood that in view of the frequently expressed wish of Mr. James E. Gowen that no meeting of the bar should be held to take action in case of his death, such of his friends as have been consulted upon the subject have decided that no such meeting shall take place."
Married
Main and Gowen Avenue, 22nd Ward
1885-02-17; Paper: Philadelphia Inquirer
"JAMES E. Gowen
James Emmet Gowen, died at his residence at Mount Airy, yesterday, February 16, at 2:30 P. M.
The immediate cause of his death was blood poisoning, resulting from an abscess which had confined him to the house for ten days past. Some time ago, he met with a fall, which occasioned the formation of an abscess in the groin. He was attended by Dr. Agnew, and to obviate the danger of blood poisoning from inward discharge, an operation was performed on Friday last. The opening afforded the sufferer immediate relief and the best hopes were entertained for his safe recovery. But it was presently evident that another pus sac was forming, and as the patient was unable to sustain another operation, had such a resort ben possible, a fatal termination of the case was seen to be inevitable.
Mr. Gowen sank rapidly, and yesterday afternoon, passed peacefully away, surrounded by mourning friends and solaced by every attention that human care and skill could offer.
Mr. Gowen was in the fifty-sixth year of his age, in the maturity of his powers, and held the honorable position of one of the most able and distinguished members of the Philadelphia bar. He was born in Mount Airy, where he has always resided, being a brother of Mr. Franklin P. Gowen.
His father, the late James Gowen, of Mount Airy, was a highly esteemed and successful merchant of Philadelphia, who retired to Mount Airy in his later years, after a fortunate and creditable career in commercial pursuits. His mother was Mary Miller, daughter of Joseph Miller, of Germantown, a direct descendant of Sebastian Miller, who came to this country with Pastorius, the original settler of Germantown, who received a grant of 6000 ares of land from William Penn in 1689.
Mr. Gowen was admitted to the bar on May 10, 1851. About the year 1862 he entered the office of St. George Tucker Campbell, and after the death of that eminent counselor he succeeded t the solicitorship of the Reading Railroad, and to the large practice of the office, which in his hands, has extended to one of the most active and important corporate connection in the country. Mr. Gowen has taken part in all the leading railroad litigations current in our courts during the past twenty years. He was counsel for the Reading Railroad Company in all the complicated legal proceedings in which that company has been involved, his most recent appearance in behalf of this company of public note being the Dinsmore case, in which Roscoe Conkling, George M. Robeson, Clarence Seward, Franklin B. Gowen, and a host of brilliant luminaries of the bar took part. He was also, in the course of his career, counsel for the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and other great corporations of this Commonwealth. He had charge of the Pennsylvania Railroad's legal affairs for several year, his last appearance on behalf of that company being in the Pittsburgh Steubenville Railroad litigation. He had charge, too, of the important litigation of the Lehigh Valley Company with the Lehigh Navigation Company at the time of the construction of the Lehigh an Susquehanna Railroad. In these and many other important railroad cases Mr. Gowen's erudition and judgment have been of weight and moment in giving form to the legal relations, responsibilities and privileges of our great corporations. He was of enduring physique and capable of toiling with intense application, and in the study of a case his labor was unremitting and indefatigable. He was always an earnest student, and having mastered the most difficult and complex involutions of his brief, which he did with the learning and acumen of a powerful legal mind, he had the faculty of presenting his case in the purest, most concise and forcible terms that the English language affords. His quick comprehension, his unwearying industry, his earnestness of purpose, his impressiveness of manner and elegance of diction, all contributed to make him one of the most effective practitioners at our bar.
Mr. Gowen was of retiring disposition, domestic in habit, and a great lover of home. He was affectionate with his friends, exceedingly kindhearted, and especially considerate and tender toward those who were anything like a dependent relation toward him, many a young student and tyro in the courts remembering his consideration of them with appreciative gratitude.
He was always devoted to his profession and his home life, and although a consistent and interested Democrat in politics, was never willing to take a conspicuous position in party or public affairs. On the 30th of August, 1876, he was nominated by the Democracy for the office of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, but persisted in declining the honor.
The nominees weere Thomas J. Ashton, William H. Brown, George W. Arundel, John I. Rogers, Thomas Greenbank, George M. Dallas, Peter McCall an James E. Gowen. On the last ballot, Mr. GOwen received 30 votes, Mr. Brown 18, and Mr. McCall 13.
In declining the nomination, Mr. Gowen said "I highly appreciate the honor which the convention has conferred on me, and the opinions which you have expressed as to the motive which should control nominations for judicial offices have my entire concurrence, although I cannot assume that, as regards myself, the result of the action of the convention is as commendable as the intention by which it was dictated.
But I regret to say, however, that my personal engagements are of such a character as renders it impossible for me to become a candidate for the office in question. I therefore decline, with many thanks, for the courteous manner in which you have discharged your duty."
Thomas J. Ashton , who was admitted to the bar in 1856, fro the office of St. George Tucker Campbell, was afterwards nominated to the vacancy on the ticket.
Mr. Gowen leaves three daughters and two sons, Mr. Francis I. and Mr. Frederick C. Gowen, the former a lawyer, who will undoubtedly succeed to his father's practice, and the latter a student of divinity of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The first wife of the deceased was Miss Clementine [Inues?], and the second, who survives him, was Miss Emeline Hopkins.
It is understood that in view of the frequently expressed wish of Mr. James E. Gowen that no meeting of the bar should be held to take action in case of his death, such of his friends as have been consulted upon the subject have decided that no such meeting shall take place."
55y
Married
Main and Gowen Avenue, 22nd Ward
1885-02-17; Paper: Philadelphia Inquirer
"JAMES E. Gowen
James Emmet Gowen, died at his residence at Mount Airy, yesterday, February 16, at 2:30 P. M.
The immediate cause of his death was blood poisoning, resulting from an abscess which had confined him to the house for ten days past. Some time ago, he met with a fall, which occasioned the formation of an abscess in the groin. He was attended by Dr. Agnew, and to obviate the danger of blood poisoning from inward discharge, an operation was performed on Friday last. The opening afforded the sufferer immediate relief and the best hopes were entertained for his safe recovery. But it was presently evident that another pus sac was forming, and as the patient was unable to sustain another operation, had such a resort ben possible, a fatal termination of the case was seen to be inevitable.
Mr. Gowen sank rapidly, and yesterday afternoon, passed peacefully away, surrounded by mourning friends and solaced by every attention that human care and skill could offer.
Mr. Gowen was in the fifty-sixth year of his age, in the maturity of his powers, and held the honorable position of one of the most able and distinguished members of the Philadelphia bar. He was born in Mount Airy, where he has always resided, being a brother of Mr. Franklin P. Gowen.
His father, the late James Gowen, of Mount Airy, was a highly esteemed and successful merchant of Philadelphia, who retired to Mount Airy in his later years, after a fortunate and creditable career in commercial pursuits. His mother was Mary Miller, daughter of Joseph Miller, of Germantown, a direct descendant of Sebastian Miller, who came to this country with Pastorius, the original settler of Germantown, who received a grant of 6000 ares of land from William Penn in 1689.
Mr. Gowen was admitted to the bar on May 10, 1851. About the year 1862 he entered the office of St. George Tucker Campbell, and after the death of that eminent counselor he succeeded t the solicitorship of the Reading Railroad, and to the large practice of the office, which in his hands, has extended to one of the most active and important corporate connection in the country. Mr. Gowen has taken part in all the leading railroad litigations current in our courts during the past twenty years. He was counsel for the Reading Railroad Company in all the complicated legal proceedings in which that company has been involved, his most recent appearance in behalf of this company of public note being the Dinsmore case, in which Roscoe Conkling, George M. Robeson, Clarence Seward, Franklin B. Gowen, and a host of brilliant luminaries of the bar took part. He was also, in the course of his career, counsel for the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and other great corporations of this Commonwealth. He had charge of the Pennsylvania Railroad's legal affairs for several year, his last appearance on behalf of that company being in the Pittsburgh Steubenville Railroad litigation. He had charge, too, of the important litigation of the Lehigh Valley Company with the Lehigh Navigation Company at the time of the construction of the Lehigh an Susquehanna Railroad. In these and many other important railroad cases Mr. Gowen's erudition and judgment have been of weight and moment in giving form to the legal relations, responsibilities and privileges of our great corporations. He was of enduring physique and capable of toiling with intense application, and in the study of a case his labor was unremitting and indefatigable. He was always an earnest student, and having mastered the most difficult and complex involutions of his brief, which he did with the learning and acumen of a powerful legal mind, he had the faculty of presenting his case in the purest, most concise and forcible terms that the English language affords. His quick comprehension, his unwearying industry, his earnestness of purpose, his impressiveness of manner and elegance of diction, all contributed to make him one of the most effective practitioners at our bar.
Mr. Gowen was of retiring disposition, domestic in habit, and a great lover of home. He was affectionate with his friends, exceedingly kindhearted, and especially considerate and tender toward those who were anything like a dependent relation toward him, many a young student and tyro in the courts remembering his consideration of them with appreciative gratitude.
He was always devoted to his profession and his home life, and although a consistent and interested Democrat in politics, was never willing to take a conspicuous position in party or public affairs. On the 30th of August, 1876, he was nominated by the Democracy for the office of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, but persisted in declining the honor.
The nominees weere Thomas J. Ashton, William H. Brown, George W. Arundel, John I. Rogers, Thomas Greenbank, George M. Dallas, Peter McCall an James E. Gowen. On the last ballot, Mr. GOwen received 30 votes, Mr. Brown 18, and Mr. McCall 13.
In declining the nomination, Mr. Gowen said "I highly appreciate the honor which the convention has conferred on me, and the opinions which you have expressed as to the motive which should control nominations for judicial offices have my entire concurrence, although I cannot assume that, as regards myself, the result of the action of the convention is as commendable as the intention by which it was dictated.
But I regret to say, however, that my personal engagements are of such a character as renders it impossible for me to become a candidate for the office in question. I therefore decline, with many thanks, for the courteous manner in which you have discharged your duty."
Thomas J. Ashton , who was admitted to the bar in 1856, fro the office of St. George Tucker Campbell, was afterwards nominated to the vacancy on the ticket.
Mr. Gowen leaves three daughters and two sons, Mr. Francis I. and Mr. Frederick C. Gowen, the former a lawyer, who will undoubtedly succeed to his father's practice, and the latter a student of divinity of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The first wife of the deceased was Miss Clementine [Inues?], and the second, who survives him, was Miss Emeline Hopkins.
It is understood that in view of the frequently expressed wish of Mr. James E. Gowen that no meeting of the bar should be held to take action in case of his death, such of his friends as have been consulted upon the subject have decided that no such meeting shall take place."
Married
Main and Gowen Avenue, 22nd Ward
1885-02-17; Paper: Philadelphia Inquirer
"JAMES E. Gowen
James Emmet Gowen, died at his residence at Mount Airy, yesterday, February 16, at 2:30 P. M.
The immediate cause of his death was blood poisoning, resulting from an abscess which had confined him to the house for ten days past. Some time ago, he met with a fall, which occasioned the formation of an abscess in the groin. He was attended by Dr. Agnew, and to obviate the danger of blood poisoning from inward discharge, an operation was performed on Friday last. The opening afforded the sufferer immediate relief and the best hopes were entertained for his safe recovery. But it was presently evident that another pus sac was forming, and as the patient was unable to sustain another operation, had such a resort ben possible, a fatal termination of the case was seen to be inevitable.
Mr. Gowen sank rapidly, and yesterday afternoon, passed peacefully away, surrounded by mourning friends and solaced by every attention that human care and skill could offer.
Mr. Gowen was in the fifty-sixth year of his age, in the maturity of his powers, and held the honorable position of one of the most able and distinguished members of the Philadelphia bar. He was born in Mount Airy, where he has always resided, being a brother of Mr. Franklin P. Gowen.
His father, the late James Gowen, of Mount Airy, was a highly esteemed and successful merchant of Philadelphia, who retired to Mount Airy in his later years, after a fortunate and creditable career in commercial pursuits. His mother was Mary Miller, daughter of Joseph Miller, of Germantown, a direct descendant of Sebastian Miller, who came to this country with Pastorius, the original settler of Germantown, who received a grant of 6000 ares of land from William Penn in 1689.
Mr. Gowen was admitted to the bar on May 10, 1851. About the year 1862 he entered the office of St. George Tucker Campbell, and after the death of that eminent counselor he succeeded t the solicitorship of the Reading Railroad, and to the large practice of the office, which in his hands, has extended to one of the most active and important corporate connection in the country. Mr. Gowen has taken part in all the leading railroad litigations current in our courts during the past twenty years. He was counsel for the Reading Railroad Company in all the complicated legal proceedings in which that company has been involved, his most recent appearance in behalf of this company of public note being the Dinsmore case, in which Roscoe Conkling, George M. Robeson, Clarence Seward, Franklin B. Gowen, and a host of brilliant luminaries of the bar took part. He was also, in the course of his career, counsel for the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and other great corporations of this Commonwealth. He had charge of the Pennsylvania Railroad's legal affairs for several year, his last appearance on behalf of that company being in the Pittsburgh Steubenville Railroad litigation. He had charge, too, of the important litigation of the Lehigh Valley Company with the Lehigh Navigation Company at the time of the construction of the Lehigh an Susquehanna Railroad. In these and many other important railroad cases Mr. Gowen's erudition and judgment have been of weight and moment in giving form to the legal relations, responsibilities and privileges of our great corporations. He was of enduring physique and capable of toiling with intense application, and in the study of a case his labor was unremitting and indefatigable. He was always an earnest student, and having mastered the most difficult and complex involutions of his brief, which he did with the learning and acumen of a powerful legal mind, he had the faculty of presenting his case in the purest, most concise and forcible terms that the English language affords. His quick comprehension, his unwearying industry, his earnestness of purpose, his impressiveness of manner and elegance of diction, all contributed to make him one of the most effective practitioners at our bar.
Mr. Gowen was of retiring disposition, domestic in habit, and a great lover of home. He was affectionate with his friends, exceedingly kindhearted, and especially considerate and tender toward those who were anything like a dependent relation toward him, many a young student and tyro in the courts remembering his consideration of them with appreciative gratitude.
He was always devoted to his profession and his home life, and although a consistent and interested Democrat in politics, was never willing to take a conspicuous position in party or public affairs. On the 30th of August, 1876, he was nominated by the Democracy for the office of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, but persisted in declining the honor.
The nominees weere Thomas J. Ashton, William H. Brown, George W. Arundel, John I. Rogers, Thomas Greenbank, George M. Dallas, Peter McCall an James E. Gowen. On the last ballot, Mr. GOwen received 30 votes, Mr. Brown 18, and Mr. McCall 13.
In declining the nomination, Mr. Gowen said "I highly appreciate the honor which the convention has conferred on me, and the opinions which you have expressed as to the motive which should control nominations for judicial offices have my entire concurrence, although I cannot assume that, as regards myself, the result of the action of the convention is as commendable as the intention by which it was dictated.
But I regret to say, however, that my personal engagements are of such a character as renders it impossible for me to become a candidate for the office in question. I therefore decline, with many thanks, for the courteous manner in which you have discharged your duty."
Thomas J. Ashton , who was admitted to the bar in 1856, fro the office of St. George Tucker Campbell, was afterwards nominated to the vacancy on the ticket.
Mr. Gowen leaves three daughters and two sons, Mr. Francis I. and Mr. Frederick C. Gowen, the former a lawyer, who will undoubtedly succeed to his father's practice, and the latter a student of divinity of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The first wife of the deceased was Miss Clementine [Inues?], and the second, who survives him, was Miss Emeline Hopkins.
It is understood that in view of the frequently expressed wish of Mr. James E. Gowen that no meeting of the bar should be held to take action in case of his death, such of his friends as have been consulted upon the subject have decided that no such meeting shall take place."
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