Penfield Cowan

Miss Betty Smith of Portland Engaged to Wed Penfield Cowan
Portland Press Herald, Oct 24 1948, P. 43 with photo

"Mr. and Mrs. Donald H. Whitney of Bridgton and Norwalk, Conn., are announcing the engagement of Mrs. Whitney's daughter, Miss Betty Jeanne Smith, to Penfield Cowan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Cowan, of Scarsdale, N. Y.
  Miss Smith was graduated from Bridgton Academy in 1943 and Colby College in 1947 where she received a BA degree with honors in English.
  Mr. Cowan was graduated from Scarsdale High School in 1943 and attended Cornell University prior to serving three years in the army. He has resumed his studies at a junior at Cornell, majoring in fine arts.
  A December wedding is planned."

Notes from Penfield Cowan '50
Cornell Alumni News Vol. 73, No. 07 (February, 1971), P. 51

"Penfield Cowan of 5522 Willow St., New Orleans, La., lived in Oklahoma City for 16 years and became curator of the Oklahoma Science & Arts Foundation. He is now head exhibit technician for the Louisiana State Museum Complex, stationed in the Cabildo & Presbytere, Jackson Sq: Wife Jeanne, from whom he was divorced in 1966, died in 1969 from a heart attack, and children James Lee, 18, Janet Elizabeth, 17, and John Cleveland, 14, are happily reunited and living with him."