Abram Irvin McDowell
{{short description|Former mayor of Columbus, Ohio}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Abram Irvin McDowell
| image = The grave of Abram Irvin McDowell.jpg
| caption = Abram Irvin McDowell’s gravestone.
| order =
| office1 = 15th Mayor of Columbus
| term_start1 = 1842
| term_end1 = 1842
| predecessor1 = Thomas Wood
| successor1 = Smithson E. Wright
| party =
| profession = Mayor
Franklin County Recorder
Court Clerk
| birth_date = 1793
| birth_place = Kentucky
| death_date = November 16, 1844 (aged 51)
| death_place = Columbus, Ohio
| restingplace = Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio
| residence =
| spouse = Eliza Seldon Lord
| children = Irvin McDowell
John Adair McDowell
| website =
| alma_mater =
}}
Abram Irvin McDowell (1793–1844) was the 15th mayor of Columbus, Ohio. He was the 14th person to hold the office, and served for less than one year. His successor was Smithson E. Wright.{{sfn|Egger|(1975)|pp=21}} There are no existing images of Abram I. McDowell alive.{{sfn|Powers|(1991)}}
Life
Abram Irvin McDowell was born on April 24, 1793,[https://books.google.com/books?id=5qkHAwAAQBAJ&dq=abram+mcdowell+1793+mercer&pg=PA190 History and genealogies] in Mercer County, Kentucky, to Col. Samuel McDowell, Jr. and Anne (Irvine) McDowell. He had two brothers, John Adair and William Adair McDowell.
McDowell was married to Eliza Selden (Lord) McDowell. The couple had sevenLord, Kenneth,. Genealogy of the descendants of Thomas Lord, an original proprietor and founder of Hartford, Conn., in 1636. New York: unknown, 1946. children.
He died on November 16, 1844, in Columbus, Ohio.[https://books.google.com/books?id=CLECAAAAMAAJ&dq=abram+mcdowell+1844+franklin+ohio&pg=PA744 History of the City of Columbus] He is buried at Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio.{{cite news|url=http://www.thisweeknews.com/content/stories/clintonville/news/2011/02/02/abram-was-part-of-an-intriguing-mcdowell-family-in-civil-war-era.html|title=Abram Was Part of an Intriguing McDowell Family in Civil War Era|last=Lentz|first=Ed|date=February 2, 2011|work=ThisWeek Community News|access-date=11 November 2013}}
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book |title=Columbus Mayors |year=1975 |location=Columbus, Ohio |publisher=Columbus Citizen-Journal|editor1-first=Charles |editor1-last=Egger |url=http://www.genealogybug.net/franklin_county/colmayors/columbus_mayors_1.pdf| ref = {{sfnRef|Egger|(1975)}}}}
- {{cite news|title=Lashutka, Rinehart to Dedicate Hall of Mayors|last=Powers|first=Scott|date=December 29, 1991|work=The Columbus Dispatch|publisher=The Dispatch Printing Company|page=01B|location=Columbus, Ohio| ref = {{sfnRef|Powers|(1991)}}}}
Further reading
- {{cite book|last=Bentley|first=Elizabeth Petty|title=Ohio Cemetery Records|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F_D057Mjg2UC&pg=PA243 |edition=Reprint|year=1984|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Company|isbn=9780806310718|page=243}}
- {{cite book|last=Boyd|first=Lucinda|title=The Irvines and Their Kin: Revised By the Author In Scotland, Ireland and England; A History of the Irvine Family and Their Descendants. Also Short Sketches of Their Kindred, the Carlisles, McDowells, Johnstons, Maxwells, Gaults, McElroys, etc., From A.D. 373 Down to the Present Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sGtVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA152 |year=1908|publisher=R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company|page=152}}
- {{cite book|last=Lee|first=Alfred Emory|title=History of the City of Columbus, Capital of Ohio|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CLECAAAAMAAJ&q=%22History+of+the+City+of+Columbus,+Capital+of+Ohio+-+Volume+1%22|volume=1|year=1892|publisher=Munsell & Company|pages=179, 181, 744, 883}}
External links
- {{Find a Grave|70712484|Abram Irvin McDowell}}
- [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdowell.html#918.19.16 Abram Irvin McDowell] at Political Graveyard
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| title=Mayor of Columbus, Ohio
| before=Thomas Wood
| after=Smithson E. Wright
| years=1842–1842
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Category:19th-century mayors of places in Ohio
Category:Burials at Green Lawn Cemetery (Columbus, Ohio)
Category:Mayors of Columbus, Ohio
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