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PRIVATE
EDWARD M. McGOWAN was born on November 29, 1893 to John J. and Mary J. McGowan.
He was also recorded as being named Edwin McGowan. Along with
another son, Joseph, the McGowan family lived at 49
Marlton Avenue in
Camden NJ. The elder McGowan worked as a clerk in a grocery store, then
as a huckster, and he
would go on to owning his own grocery later in life. Edward McGowan married
shortly after registering for the draft in une of 1917. He and his wife Emily E. McGowan
lived
with his parents at the Marlton Avenue address. In December of 1918, a
son Edward M. Jr. was born.
Private
Edward McGowan was training with the School Company 122 at the Machine
Gun School at Camp Hancock, August GA, when he died of pneumonia
on January 15, 1919. His body was returned to New Jersey and he was
buried in Camden. His parents were still living on Marlton Avenue as
late as April of 1930.
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