Comments on: McDowell Descendant

By: Harry Smeltzer

Harry Smeltzer — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:09:13 +0000

Thanks for stopping by, John. Feel free to share anything or ask any questions you may have.

By: John Roe

John Roe — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:47:04 +0000

My name is John Roe, I’m distant to the Mc Dowell family, in that my Mother Lauara M. Mcdowell, was of 14 Childern, of William McDowell. They lived in a small town of Selam, California.

By: Harry Smeltzer

Harry Smeltzer — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:09:31 +0000

Thanks for commenting, Jim. I wrote about John McDowell here a while back. A murky character.

By: Jim Miller

Jim Miller — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:18:45 +0000

Harry, to add a bit more information to the McDowell family tree, Irvin McDowell’s younger brother, John Adair McDowell, was the 1st Colonel of the 6th Iowa Infantry. A biographical sketch of him can befound in Addison A. Stuart’s “Iowa Colonels and Regiments,” p. 147-52 which I have posted at Civil War Notebook:

http://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2009/08/colonel-john-adair-mdowell.html