Thomas Cowherd

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Thomas C. Cowherd (March 20, 1817 – April 4, 1907) was a Canadian tinsmith and poet.

Cowherd was born in Kendal, Westmoreland, England. He apprenticed as a tinsmith from age 13 to 20 for Alexander Graham Bell. His family immigrated to Canada in 1837. Cowherd eventually settled on Colborne Street in Brantford, Ontario. He was President of the Brantford Branch Bible Society, President of the Brantford Mechanic's Institute and Literary Association, a school trustee, and was a town councillor in 1869.

Much of his poetry appeared in newspapers. A collection, The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse", was published in 1884.

He had five children with his first wife, Ann Batty, and after her death, married her sister Ellen and had another eleven.

He died in Chatham, Ontario.

[edit] External links

• Works by Thomas Cowherd at Project Gutenberg

Persondata
NAME	Cowherd, Thomas C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Canadian tinsmith and poet
DATE OF BIRTH	March 20, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kendal, Westmoreland, England
DATE OF DEATH	April 4, 1907
PLACE OF DEATH	Chatham, Ontario, Canada