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- from "The Greenvile Evening Record", 8 Oct 1907
WILLIAM McDOWELL
William McDowell was a native of Orange county, N.Y., where he was born January 7, 1824. When a boy of 10 or 12 his parents moved to Steuben county, N.Y, near Addison, N.Y., and later to the Western Reserve and as early as 1844 to Greenville. In Greenville, he established the Excelsior carriage works, the first of its kind in Greenville and one of the first in this section, and it had a wide and extensive patronage. This was located on the northeast corner of Main and North Mercer streets and later on Shenango street, corner North Mercer. Later Atwater Cook became associated with him and in 1874, his health failing, he sold the establishment to the new firm of Cook & Ford. Since quitting active business he has devoted his time to his real estate, being an extensive owner of Greenville property. Although never rugged it was only recently that he was confined to his room by illness and while critically ill for two weeks, he was a quiet patient sufferer. His last hours were very peaceful and he passed away as in a tranquil sleep. He was a man of a clean life, refined in disposition and gentle in the home and an honor to the community. In 1874 he was married to Caroline La Porter, who with one daughter, Jean, survives him, and their tender ministrations did much to alleviate the suffering in the last weeks of his life, which closed at ten minutes to 4, Sunday morning. He is also survived by three daughters by a former marriage, Mrs. G.H. White and Mrs. C.C. Lininger, of Rock Island, Ill.; and Mrs. Ben Bowers, of Greenville. Mrs. White arrived here for the funeral Monday, but Mrs. Lininger was in Chicago and could not be located. A sister, the sole survivor of the family, Miss Ellen McDowell, resides in Rock Island. The funeral services were held at the house at 2 o'clock, Tuesday, conducted by Dr. C.B. Wakefield and Dr. W. Roth.
- from "Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1967" (ancestry.com)
William McDowell, married, retired, born 7 Jan 1824 in IRE to James McDowell b. IRE & Catherine McCutheon b. IRE, died 6 Oct 1907 in Greenville, Mercer, PA of cerebral softening. Informant ?? McDowell. Burial in Shenago Valley Cemetery, Greenville, PA.
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1824 - 1907 (83 years)
