Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1918 — JOHN K. GOWDY PASSES AWAY [ARTICLE]

JOHN K. GOWDY PASSES AWAY

Former Resident of Jasper County Dies at Home in Rushville. John K, Gowdy, formerly United States consul-general at Paris and prominent in Republican polities in Indiana for many years, died at his home in Rushville last Tuesday, aged seventy-four years. Mr. Gowdy was born in Rush county but when he was six years of age his parents moved to Jasper county and the family resided in west of Rensselaer some miles for several years and resided there when John K. enlisted in the war of the rebellion in 1862, at the age of eighteen years. He wa? a member of Cor-*L. sth Indiana volunteer cavalry, and enlisted at Lafayettg July 17, 1862. His father, Adam 4 M. Gowdy, was a delegate to the constitutional convention which met at Corydon (then the state capital), and was a mdmber of the legislature that ratified the first constitution «of Indiana in 1851, having been elected to the legislature from the district then composed of Jasper, Pulaski and White counties. Jasper county then included all the territory now comprising Jasper and Newton counties. After the close of the Civil war John K. returned to Rush county where he was married in 1867, and followed the occupation of farming for many years. ' He gained much prominence in the McKinley campaign of 1896 and was later appointed U. S. consul-general to Paris by President McKinley.